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 2001-12-18  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
 
+	* NEWS: update for 1.1.6fix4.
+
 	* lib/bind/fi_menus.bind: update from Pauli Virtanen.
 
 2001-12-15  Dekel Tsur  <dekelts@tau.ac.il>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
+------------------------------------
+
+LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
+
+New features:
+
+- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
+
+- change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
+  appears to be more suitable.
+
+- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
+  This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
+
+- add support for dvipdfm
+
+- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
+  extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
+
+- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
+  tokens in the file
+
+- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
+
+- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
+  slightly updated
+
+- updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
+
+- updates to the russian and finnish localisations
+
+
 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
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@@ -29,6 +62,7 @@ New features:
   LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
   with the older version
 
+
 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
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