From 4bb8716d3e8dd75d67c4328181b788d6ecedbf24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=BCrgen=20Spitzm=C3=BCller?= Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:56:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * ANNOUNCE: * NEWS: - final touches. git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X@28717 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ANNOUNCE | 307 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEWS | 11 +- 2 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index bb60418ace..ba3cc6458a 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -86,3 +86,310 @@ What's new in version 1.6.2? ** Updates: *********** +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- New German and Spanish translations of the specific manual "How to write + Braille with LyX". + +- New German and Spanish translations of the specific manual "Writing + linguistic papers with LyX". + +- New Indonesian and Ukrainian translations of the Splash document. + +- Update localization of the user interface for Czech, French, German, + Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. + +- Updated English and Spanish Customization manuals. + +- Updated English and Spanish LyX Tutorials. + +- Updated English, French, German, and Spanish Embedded Objects, Math, + XY-pic and Tutorial manuals. + +- Updated English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish User's guide + manuals. + +- Updated English specific manual "How to write Braille with LyX". + +- Updated English specific manual "Writing linguistic papers with LyX". + +- Updated German specific multicolumn manual. + +- Updated Extended and LyX functions manual. + +- Add a check for the japanese babel option in the LaTeX configuration + manual (bug 5677). + + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- New external material template for Dia. + +- New layout file for submissions to ACM SIGGRAPH conferences and + publications. + +- New layout file to typeset recipes. + +- The menu separator special symbol is now direction aware, i.e., it + points to the left in RTL-text (LaTeX output only) (bug 3560). + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Support for customized horizontal space in math/formulas (bug 2558). + +- Improved the display of BibTeX information in the citation dialog. + LaTeX constructs such as: \"u, should now be displayed as unicode, + and we should now see "(Doe, 1998)" instead of "(John Doe, 1998)" + even when the name in the BibTeX file is "John Doe" rather than + "Doe, John". + +- Added LFUN_VC_COMMAND to support customizable user commands + for version control. + +- Improved the user interface of the graphics group feature. + +- Added "Copy as Reference" to the context menu of labels to + ease the insertion of references. + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Fix a crash when reading a document containing specific numbered + equations produced with tex2lyx (bug 5688). + +- Fix a crash when reading files created by tex2lyx in the presence of an + empty child document (bug 4859). + +- Fix an assertion when an inset is hidden at the right of the edit + window, for example in Description or Right Address layout (bug + 5666 and 5068). + +- Fix the conversion of documents from previous LyX versions that have + index insets following an index list inset (bug 5713). + Affected files that have already been mis-converted can be repaired by + manually setting back the file format to 288 in a text editor before + re-opening the document with LyX 1.6.x. + +- Fix the LaTeX export of subfigures via the command line (bug 5562). + +- Fix the LaTeX import of preamble code (bug 5788). + +- Fix the reversion of floating wrap floats to LyX 1.5.x (bug 5618). + +- Make the PDF output of change tracking markup more robust by using the + ulem package for struck out text instead of the package soul + (fixes bug 5480, 5647 and the remainders of bug 5091). + +- Fix hanging module. + +- Pass graphics driver to the geometry package (bug 5613). + +- Fix LaTeX error with custom margins and the revtex4 class (bug 3838). + +- siamltex class: do not load amsthm package, since the SIAM class + provides its own theorem-like environments. + +- Fix LaTeX export when using unicode symbols in math only in child + documents (bug 5665). + +- Fix bug when coloring section headings in RevTeX4 documents (bug 4625). + +- Fix the output of telephone number and location in letters (bug 5684). + +- Fix a LaTeX export error that prevents the inclusion of two program + listings that differ only by file extension (bug 5681). + +- Fix hyphenation and punctuation rules for Mexican Spanish (bug 4736). + +- For CJK documents using utf8 encoding, load the CJKutf8 package, if + available (part of bug 5386). + +- Fix bugs when entering hyperlink paths containing special characters + (bug 5686). + +- Fix the output of some Greek characters (rest of bug 5239). + +- Fix the address numbering in the elsarticle template file. + +- Fix update of single-char math macro names after their editing (bug 5541). + + +* USER INTERFACE + +- Fix a crash when pasting a branch in a child document. This crash could + destroy the emergency backup (bug 5813). + +- Fix a bug where changes in child documents were dropped or saved without + asking when closing LyX (bug 5833). + +- Fix a crash when no file is open and the creation of a new document + fails. + +- Fix a crash when using a math related function in an ERT inset + (bug 5703). + +- Fix a crash when copying a matrix column (bug 5731). + +- Fix a crash when pressing the Home or End key while the cursor is not in + the current view (bug 5736). + +- Fix a crash when quitting with the Tabular dialog opened. + +- Fix a crash when deleting columns in a table with multicolumns + (bug 5766). + +- Fix a crash when setting a multicolumn row as the caption of a longtable + (bug 5753). + +- Fix a crash when using the outliner in a child document, the master of + which is not opened (bug 5699). + +- Fix a crash on exit when the child documents are already unloaded. + +- Fix a crash when pressing the Update button of the Citation dialog + for read-only documents (bug 5785). + +- Fix a crash when removing the label of an included Program Listing. + +- Fix a few crashes that could occur with a 'visual' cursor (bugs 5762 + and 5765). + +- Fix a crash when an unfinished macro is edited and deleted in math + mode (bug 5744). + +- Ignore the master_buffer setting in Document>Settings if the current + document is no real child. This fixes a crash when using the outliner + in such files (bug 5653). + +- Set a proper file filter in the file dialog for inserting plain text. + This fixes a crash when attempting to insert plain text (bug 5671). + +- Fix the synchronisation of insets when they are shown in two different + views. This could also have lead to an assertion (bug 4346). + +- Fix an assertion when the status of a command in the context menu of + an InsetCollapsable is requested which is not handled by the inset. + This might happen when the user modifies the ui or when the right + mouse button is dragged (bug 5797). + +- Speed up editing with Outliner open with Qt >= 4.3. This should + especially pay off on the Mac, if the Outliner shows as a drawer + (part of bug 4443). + +- Speed up editing when the document contains paragraphs with many (>1000) + insets (part of bug 4443). + +- Fix the output of longtables if they have a caption (bug 5772). + +- Fix the longtable dialog: Now only only one attribute can be set per + table row (bug 5752). + +- Set buffer status to changed and record UNDO after modifying insets such + as pagebreaks or citations via context menu. + +- Fix on-screen layout of wrap floats. + +- Improve debug output when tracing what actions are triggered. + +- A re-declaration of an InsetLayout will now update the existing + declaration rather than completely over-writing it---agreeing with the + behavior of our normal Style declarations. + +- Reflect external material template using Instant Preview in the dialog + for scaling property (bug 5628). + +- Enable "dissolve" item in context menus of collapsable insets (bug 4985). + +- Fix unbinding/binding behaviour of shortcuts (bug 4544). + +- Fix instant preview of external material for the first insert in the + document (bug 5626). + +- Allow pasting of text from applications that set the clipboard mimetype + to both graphics and text (bug 5560). + +- Disable pasting with middle mouse button when the document is read-only + (bug 4741). + +- Fix setting shortcuts with a Return key in the shortcuts dialog + (bug 5648). + +- Fix layout of the View Source window when using Qt 4.2. + +- Fix numbering symbol direction in Hebrew and Arabic documents. + +- Remove the non-functional unit "mu" from the unit comboboxes (bug 5682). + +- Remove the bogus unit "None" from the Box dialog's unit comboboxes. + +- Fix enabling of height widgets in the Box dialog. + +- Fix a locale debug message. + +- Fix reloading bug for RCS revision control introduced in 1.6.1, backport + trunk fix for bug 5389 (bug 5697) + +- Fix RCS check-in when more windows are opened, wrong file could be saved + before commit. + +- Fix handling of $$p variable in converters configuration. Introduce $$r + variable for the original input file. + +- Enable view-source widget for read-only documents. + +- Fix painting problems after load of instant preview image (bug 5627). + +- Limit workaround for Qt bug (bug 4513) that was fixed in Qt 4.3.4 to + older Qt versions. The workaround resulted in unwanted display of hidden + directories on UNIX. + +- Add the LyX 1.6 file format (*.lyx16) to the file filter of the file + open dialog. + +- Fix the navigation to large floats from within the outline pane + (bug 5573). + +- Enable Keep and Sort buttons in ToC when in readonly mode (bug 5767). + +- Fix the incorrect painting so that a table could hide other parts of + the document after changing the width of a table column (bug 5604). + +- Enable the cursor to enter an inset at the very beginning of a document + with visual cursor movement (bug 5764). + +- Fix the painting of tables when a multicolumn is created of which the + the first column was a fixed width column (bug 5750). + +- Fix some problems of panel(s) initialization (bug 5082). + +- Enable the Add button in the Citation dialog for citations whose key + is equal to part of an already selected key (bug 5711). + +- The table dialog no longer allows to set the multicolumn property of + longtable caption rows (bug 5573). + +- It is no longer possible to accidentally insert a caption to a table + that is not a longtable (part of bug 5777). + +- It is now possible to include spaces in the name of a branch (bug 5806). + + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Fix compilation of the modernCV example file. + +- Localize the release date information in Help>About LyX. + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- lyx.spec: remove "Icon" tag that triggered a build error (bug 5795); + general update. + +- Fix compilation on OpenBSD (bug 5650). + +- Fix make check. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e809b2246d..596d034ffa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ What's new in version 1.6.2? ------------------------------- This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release -introduces some new features and user interface improvements, but most -notably, a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by -users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are fixed (especially crashes, but also file -conversion and LaTeX output problems). Furthermore, the performance of the -application has been improved. +fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by +users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, two bugs that might lead to +dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes, +file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the +performance of the application has been improved, and the release also +introduces some new features and user interface improvements. What's new in version 1.6.1?