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Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
selection that are (will be) the 1.5 series.
selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the

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Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
we have updated the documentation.
Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
the end of this announcement for further details.
As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
* Unicode
LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.
* Integrated CJK support
The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
* Language support
In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
have full user interface support.
* Multiple views of the same buffer
LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
parts of it synchronously.
* Outliner and embedded TOC
LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
* Session management
LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
* Source code Viewer
As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
document.
* New Font Selection Interface
LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
* Tabular extensions
LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
* Nomenclatures
LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
glossaries and fancy notations.
* Tabbed Widget
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
* Enhanced Math Toolbars
The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
to the math toolbars.
Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
* Frontend News
LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
essentially stalled.
* Change tracking enhancements
Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
* Converter file cache
A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
is enabled by default.
The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
that with the line
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
* Unified Windows installer
The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
both installers are welcome.
* Program listings
The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
* LaTeX-package support
LyX provides the following new document classes:
- article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
- presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
- curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
- curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
- curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
* Minor user interface improvements
Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
- Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
- Support for optional arguments for environments.
* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
(but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
even after the selection has been cleared.
* Limited support for local class and layout files
Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
should you use different directories for master and child documents.
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
series has been to bring this speed back.
** Bug fixes
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
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