From 4e3721c476ae21a26018b930a29236a096468dd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:19:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] first steps towards 1.5.1 git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X@19272 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ANNOUNCE | 303 +++++++++++++---------------------------------------- status.15x | 20 ++-- 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 236 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index d18634190d..2d79cbeb4b 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,30 +1,15 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 +Public release of LyX version 1.5.1 =================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a +few bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced +with the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. +It was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this +area and really 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated. -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. - -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1. +See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: @@ -35,253 +20,115 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting - details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page - boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary - TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. + details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with + page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's + legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. - On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or - richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like - nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all - looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably - different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' - your dissertation the evening before going to press. + On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- + or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks + like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, + all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably + different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes + 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press. LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully - internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the + internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. -You can download LyX 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.5.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host the .bz2 versions): - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz - -Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.5. + ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz + http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.5.0/ + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/ -As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows -users: - * LyX-1.5.0-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0-Installer-bundle.exe; - * LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller-Complete.exe. -The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known -as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback -and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help -the merge of the two installers, which is expected to happen during the -1.5.x series of LyX development. +If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one +of the following patches instead + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.bz2 -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0, you may either -e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open -a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org +Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since +some binary files have been added for this release. -If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, -first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, -e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.1, you may either +e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel lists.lyx.org), +or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org + +If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a +question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find +the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. - -What's new in version 1.5.0 ? +What's new in version 1.5.1? ---------------------------- -* Unicode +** Updates: +*********** -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. +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION -* Integrated CJK support +- Add template for the APA class (bug 2390). -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 +** Bug fixes: +************* -In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also -have full user interface support. +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT -* Multiple views of the same buffer +- Fix output of LyX files on windodz when Document>Compressed is set. + This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1 + now. -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. +- Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language + (bug 2468). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +* USER INTERFACE: -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. +- Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). -* Session management +- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). -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. +- Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection + is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672). -* Source code Viewer +- When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected + text in the URL inset (bug 683). -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. +- Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when + updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053). -* New Font Selection Interface +- Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on + platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076). -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. +- Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571). -* 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. +* DOCUMENTATION -* 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. +* BUILD/INSTALLATION: -* Tabbed Widget +- scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which + can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct. -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 ;-) +- LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument + converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also + checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor. diff --git a/status.15x b/status.15x index b753912f06..fa38a65f64 100644 --- a/status.15x +++ b/status.15x @@ -30,20 +30,24 @@ What's new * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT +- Fix output of LyX files on windodz when Document>Compressed is set. + This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1 + now. + - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language - (bug 2468) - -- Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection - is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672) - -- When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected - text in the URL inset (bug 683) + (bug 2468). * USER INTERFACE: - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). -- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023) +- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). + +- Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection + is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672). + +- When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected + text in the URL inset (bug 683). - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).