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2002-03-26 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@freesurf.fr>
* INSTALL:
* README:
* NEWS: update somewhat for 1.2.0
2002-03-22 Angus Leeming <a.leeming@ic.ac.uk>

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INSTALL
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Note for CVS checkouts
----------------------
If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have
automake, autoconf, and gettext installed. Then,
type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated below.
Compiling and installing LyX
============================
@ -28,19 +20,42 @@ These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
if you want a smaller binary.
Note for CVS checkouts
----------------------
If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have
automake, autoconf, and gettext installed. Then,
type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
files and proceed as stated below.
You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
Requirements
------------
You will need to have both an Xforms library and Xpm library to compile
LyX. It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming.
Compilers that are known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and
later, and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your
experience with other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX
with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the
future.
Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.2.x makes great use of C++
Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
version.
Both an Xforms and Xpm libraries should be installed to compile LyX.
It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
libraries, and their associated header files.
As of LyX version 1.1.5, you will need to have Xforms library and
header version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.88 is a stable release and the
recommended version, but 0.89.6 seems to be work very well too. On
some systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared library versions of
the Xforms library, which require an installation step to configure
the system.
As of LyX version 1.2.0, you will need to have Xforms library and
header version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.89.6 is the one which works
best, but the old stable 0.88.1 version is still supported. On some
systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared library versions of the
Xforms library, which require an installation step to configure the
system.
Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
available. If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
@ -52,31 +67,13 @@ developers to request a version for your system. You can get it from
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 (or newer; 4.8 rumoured
to work).
If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or Mandrake,
we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib
as the rpm packages commonly found are compiled against glibc 2.0
instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes.
To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
from :
http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
libXpm can be found at:
http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/sunsite/X11/libs/!INDEX.html
(or similar locations at other sunsites like sunsite.unc.edu)
You will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent means that the
compilers are close to C++ standard conforming. Compilers that are
known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and later, and Digital
C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your experience with other
compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x and
2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the future.
Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.1.x makes great use of C++
Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
version.
In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
patch), you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed, due
@ -88,6 +85,10 @@ from:
LyX contains a hack to work around this, but you should not rely too
much on it.
To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
from :
http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
Finally, the two following programs should be available at
configuration time:
@ -99,9 +100,9 @@ configuration time:
the machine on which LyX is built is not the one where it will
run).
o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged
o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged in
as. Otherwise, LyX will not be able to run a number of tests. Note
that users can run these tests manually with Option->Configure.
that users can run these tests manually with Edit>Reconfigure.
Creating the Makefile
@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ desperate cases:
the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
this flag is on for development versions only.
o --enable-assertions that make the compilier generater run-time
o --enable-assertions that make the compiler generate run-time
code which checks that some variables have sane values. Opposite
is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
development versions only.
@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ desperate cases:
flag, please report it as a bug.
o --without-liberty suppresses the detection of the -liberty library
(see the section 'Problems').
(see the section `Problems').
Compiling and installing LyX
@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ Once you've got the Makefile created, you just have to type:
All should be OK ;)
Since the binaries with debug information tend to be huge (although
this does not affect the run-time memory footprint), you maight want
this does not affect the run-time memory footprint), you might want
to strip the lyx binary. In this case replace "make install" with
make install-strip
@ -269,13 +270,7 @@ Preparing a binary distribution for the use of others
------------------------------------------------------
o Compile LyX with the right compiler switches for your
architecture. In particular you might want to ensure that
libraries like xforms and xpm are statically linked. To this end,
you can use a command like
make LYX_LIBS='/foo/libforms.a /bar/libXpm.a'
Moreover, make sure you use the --without-latex-config switch
architecture. Make sure you use the --without-latex-config switch
of configure, since others might not be interested by your
configuration :-)
@ -373,20 +368,6 @@ notify us.
Angus Leeming <leeming@lyx.org> for details.
Angus 22 March, 2002.
o According to John Collins <collins@phys.psu.edu>, on SunOS 4.1.3 you may
find two sets of X libraries, and they are of course incompatible :-)
One is the set provided as part of OpenWindows, and one is the standard
X distribution (e.g., X11R5). If you encounter problems (or if, for
some obscure reasons configure cannot find your X libraries) you can
use the following options:
o --x-libraries=DIRECTORY that indicates where the X libraries reside.
o --x-includes=DIRECTORY that indicate where the X include files reside.
The standard X11R5 libraries should work when the OpenWindows ones
don't.
o Some systems lack functions that LyX needs. To fix this, configure
tries to link against the -liberty library, if it is available.
If you experience problems with missing symbols at link time, you
@ -409,19 +390,3 @@ notify us.
LDFLAGS = -L/opt/aCC/lib # perhaps not needed.
o On Digital Unix with gcc, you can get warnings like
warning, LyXFamilyNames not found in original or external symbol tables, value defaults to 0
These concern symbols beginning with an uppercase letter and seems
to be harmless. Similarly, the compilation can end with the
following warning:
/bin/ld:
Warning: Linking some objects which contain exception information sections
and some which do not. This may cause fatal runtime exception handling
problems (last obj encountered without exceptions was ../intl/libintl.a).
You can safely ignore it.

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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5
be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
and 1.1.6).
This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
are now possible:
- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
positional parameters of figure, table and algorith, floats can be set
positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
float-by-float
- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved
(memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...)
- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
(memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
can be shown inline
@ -27,6 +28,9 @@ are now possible:
- New minipage inset
Note that another consequence of this change is that older LyX version
will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX 1.2.0.
Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
@ -43,10 +47,20 @@ The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
process, among which:
- possibility to display arbitrary TeX symbols as long as the fonts are
made available to the X server
- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
- support for many amsmath features
Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
Vmatrix
- Preliminary support for xymatrix
- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
- Improvements to the parser
@ -58,17 +72,22 @@ process, among which:
- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
- Support for changing font on a selection
- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
- GUI support provided for many more features
Other changes include:
- Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
distribution.
- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
improved in the process
- The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
version and alternative fontends are expected for 1.3.0
version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
expressions.

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@ -2,42 +2,42 @@ Preamble: LyX version scheme
In September of 1999 the LyX Team decided that we could no
longer successfully use the two strand development process
like the Linux kernel. We are in the process of switching to a
development model similar to that used by Fetchmail where we
will only make small stable changes between releases and
release more often. All future releases should be stable
although we are currently in a transition period where some
major changes have to be introduced and are likely to affect
the stability in the short term.
like the Linux kernel. The idea was to to switch to a
development model similar to that used by Fetchmail where only
we would will only make small stable changes between releases
and release more often. This lead to the 1.1.x series of LyX
releases where the inhards of the program have been rewritten
to make use of the C++ Standard Library features, establish
the foundations of GUI/system independence, and generally
clean up the data structures used in the core of LyX.
These changes include:
As of April 2002, this transition phase is completed and we
feel it is time to switch to (yet) another version scheme.
This new series will be in a state of continual advancement.
Note the word "advancement" and not "development." Development
will be occurring in branches of CVS and once the
feature/modification has proved stable it will be merged into
the main releases.
* Use of C++ Standard Library features such as the Standard
Template Library (STL), string and streams.
* Establishing the foundations of GUI/system independence,
* Rearrangement of the directory structure.
Once the transition is over the 1.1 series should be very
stable and we will then release 1.2.0. This new series will be
in a state of continual advancement. Note the word
"advancement" and not "development." Development will be
occurring in branches of CVS and once the feature/modification
has proved stable it will be merged into the main releases.
LyX now uses a continuous numbering scheme where odd or
even numbering is no longer significant. Prereleases are
LyX still uses a continuous numbering scheme where odd or
even numbering is not significant. Prereleases are
labeled with a "pre" suffix and any fixes required between
stable releases have a "fix" suffix. Thus there are three
possible file names:
lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz -- stable release
lyx-1.1.5fix2.tar.gz -- bug fix of the 1.1.5 stable release.
lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz -- stable release
lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz -- second maintenance release of the
1.2.0 stable release
lyx-1.2.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
The fix releases contain no new functionality; only fixes that
have already made their way into the cvs repository.
The maintenance releases are designed mainly to fix bugs. The
goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather to
include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us
is not too high) and safe (so that system administrators can
install them without fear) bug fixes. Experience shows that
these releases will contain a few new features, and that the
bulk of the patches will be documentation updates.
What is LyX?
@ -64,14 +64,10 @@ What is LyX not?
What do I need to run LyX?
A Unix-like system or OS/2 with XFree
A Unix-like system or Windows with cygwin, OS/2 with XFree
At least X11 Release 5
A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX or NTeX) not older
than 1995/12/01
Optionally ghostscript and ghostview (or compatible)
- note that ghostscript versions 6.22 through 6.52
won't render inline figures in LyX. This is due to
a ghostscript bug.
Perl5.002 or later to import LaTeX files into LyX
What's new?
@ -101,8 +97,10 @@ How do I upgrade from an earlier LyX version?
What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
1. A good c++ compiler. Development is being done mainly on
gcc/g++, but many others work.
2. The Xforms library version 0.88 (recommended) or 0.89.
gcc/g++, but some others work. As of LyX 1.2.0, you need at
least gcc 2.95.X (or egcs 1.1.x). Another compiler known to
work is compaq cxx 6.1.
2. The Xforms library version 0.89.6 (recommended) or 0.88.1.
3. LibXpm version 4.7 (or newer).
Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
@ -117,11 +115,7 @@ Okay, I've installed LyX. What now?
as LyX sees it. You might be missing a package or two that you'd
like to have.
User-level configuration is possible with a file "~/.lyx/lyxrc".
You can use the system-wide lyxrc file (which should be somewhere
like /usr/local/share/lyx/lyxrc) as a template for your personal
lyxrc file. Remember that a personal configuration file will be
used instead of, not in addition to, any system-wide file.
User-level configuration is possible via the Edit>Preferences menu.
Does LyX have support for non-English speakers/writers/readers?