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