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-Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1)
 ===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 1).
-It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
+It is the culmination of 1 year of hard work, and we sincerely hope
 this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
+summarize in a few words, with initial unicode support as the flagship
-you want to know more.
+of new features, jump directly to the end of this message if you want
 to know more.
 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
@ -38,30 +39,31 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 
-You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
+You can download LyX 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):
-	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
-	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
-	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
-	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
 the .bz2 versions):
-        http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+        http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
-        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
-        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.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-1.4.0.tar.gz
+        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
-Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
+Note that due to the changes no patch is provided to upgrade from
 version 1.4.4.
 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
-	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
+	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0/
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, you may either
+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 @ lists.lyx.org), or open
 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
@ -74,137 +76,118 @@ Enjoy!
 The LyX team.
-
+What's new in version 1.5.0?
 What's new in version 1.4.0?
 ----------------------------
-** Improved user interface
+* Unicode
-LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
+LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
-clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
+of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
-menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
+languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
-the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
+encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
-classic UI) is still available, for now.
+encoding or such brand new typesetting systems 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 in 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.
-It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
+* Multiple views of the same buffer
 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
 available: one for tables, and one for math. 
-Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
+LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
-toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
+now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
-table.
+parts of it synchronously.
-** Change tracking
+* Outliner
-This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
+LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
-makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
+you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
-changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
+dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
-changes. 
+1.4.4.)
-** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
+* Session managment
-The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
+LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
-and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
+reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
-parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
+selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
-much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
+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 managment will remember their state.
-** Character styles
+* Source code Viewer
-For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
+As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
-logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
+you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
-omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
+document.
 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
 styles. 
 * New Font Selection Interface
-** Branches
+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.
 * Tabular extensions
-The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
+LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
-seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
+LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
-document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
+provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
+* Glossaries
 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
-** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
 glossaries and fancy notations.
-In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
+* Tabbed Widget
 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
 GUI
-** Notes
+LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
-LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
+* Frontend News
 the Insert>Note menu:
- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
+LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
+Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
-  further.
+longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
+Windows.  The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
-  well, greyed-out text.
+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 removed.  The work on the GTK frontend
 has been transfered to a branch because its development has
 essentially stalled.
-** Better language and numbering on screen
+* Change tracking enhancements
-Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
+* Converter file cache
  the language of the document, which may be different from the
  language of the menus;
 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
  document class specifications.
-** Word count
+A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
 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 disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
 you want to use it, add the line
 \use_converter_cache true
-Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
+to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
-count of the document or of the current selection.
+6 months. You can change that with the line
 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
-** Error Lists
+where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. 
-Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
+* Under the hood
 of errors popping up at compilation time.
-** Improved bibliography support
+As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
-
+core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
+easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
-  "before citation" field is supported;
+application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
+code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
-  flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
+1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
-  and law fields;
+series has been to bring this speed back.
 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
  index processor is invoked).
 ** Improved microtypography support
 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
  between "e." and "g.");
 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
  style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
  improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
  much space between figure/table and caption.
 ** Small bits
 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
  pdf generation
 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
  edit the included figure
 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
  has poor support for other than English index sorting.
 ** Bug fixes
 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
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+++ b/847
@ -1,3 +1,850 @@
 What's new in version 1.5.0?
 ---------------------------- 
 * Unicode
 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 current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems 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 in 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.
 * Multiple views of the same buffer
 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.
 * Outliner
 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.)
 * Session managment
 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 managment will remember their state.
 * Source code Viewer
 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.
 * New Font Selection Interface
 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.
 * Tabular extensions
 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
 * Glossaries
 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
 glossaries and fancy notations.
 * Tabbed Widget
 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
 * Frontend News
 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
 Windows users, since 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 removed.  The work on the GTK frontend
 has been transfered to a branch because its development has
 essentially stalled.
 * Change tracking enhancements
 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
 * Converter file cache
 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
 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 disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
 you want to use it, add the line
 \use_converter_cache true
 to your preferences file. 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. 
 * 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.
 What's new in version 1.4.4?
 ---------------------------- 
 ** Updates:
 ***********
 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
  (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
  that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
  if you want to use this feature.
 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
  presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
  by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
  Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
  file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
 * USER INTERFACE:
 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active.
 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
  layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
  extra toolbar.
 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
  characters on a qwerty keyboard).
 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
  in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
  floats, notes, and boxes.
 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
  Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
  Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
  (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
 ** Bug fixes:
 *************
 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
  they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
  Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
  and alignedat.
 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
  2744).
 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
  (bug 2186).
 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read 
  again.
 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
  with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
  very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
  (bug 2843).
 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
  files.
 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
  it cannot be omitted.
 * USER INTERFACE:
 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
  Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
  taller than the workarea.
 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
  related to large insets.
 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
  windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
  1.4.3.
 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
  dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
  mode (bug 2865).
 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
  and 2933).
 - Fix an undo crash crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
  are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
  with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
  tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
  2877).
 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
  that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
  inset, do not open it by mistake.
 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
  inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
  French keyboard too.
 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
  important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
  the Finder uses.
 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
  a document. This is fixed.
 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
  (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
  (bug 3066) [qt only].
 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
  tempted to try them (bug 2387).
 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
  in preferences (bug 895)
 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
  (bug 3220).
 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
 * MISCELLANEOUS
 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
 What's new in version 1.4.3?
 ---------------------------- 
 ** Updates:
 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
  longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
  mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
  the end (bug 2201).
 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
 - Some small updates to the documentation.
 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
  Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
  and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
 ** Bug fixes:
 * Document Input/Output
 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
  (bug 2782).
 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
  LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
  require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
  \color (bug 2716).
 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
  when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
  \atop or \over (bug 2481).
 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
 * User Interface:
 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
  boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
  inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory 
  creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
  inset (bug 2830).
 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
  clicks in the text.
 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
  one element (like {a'}^{2}).
 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
  if it exists (bug 2779).
 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
  don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
  paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
  chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
  ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
  "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
  directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
  accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
 * Build/installation:
 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
  /bin/bash (bug 2524).
 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
  (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
  INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
  package under cygwin.
 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
  development/cmake/README.cmake
 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
  project and scons or CMake.
 * Miscellaneous
 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
  iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
  replaced by tex2LyX.
 What's new in version 1.4.2?
 ---------------------------- 
 ** Updates
 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
  [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
  in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
  on disk or not.
 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
  Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
  (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
  .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
  to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
  International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
  IJMP D).
 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
  the math panel yet.)
 ** Bug fixes
 * User Interface:
 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an 
  acceptable UI.
 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
  an inset (bug 2526).
 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
  (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
  and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
  (bug 2603).
 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
  language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
  (bug 2476).
 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
  change tracking mode.
 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
  with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
  markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
  multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
  (bug 2509).
 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
  table.
 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
  error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
  the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
 * Math editor:
 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
  (bug 2036).
 - Fix undo in matrices.
 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
 * Document input/output:
 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
  files correctly.
 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
  position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
  using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
  array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
  active (bug 2214).
 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
  pdflatex (bug 2235).
 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
 * Miscellaneous:
 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
  lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
  has also been pythonified.
 - It is  longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
  support directory.
 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file 
  lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
  any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
  before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences. 
 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
  directory on Windows.
 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
  rename the executable files.
 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
  --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
  in the source package.
 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
  and Mac OS X.
 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
  \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
  Windows. 
 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
  support via zlib is now a requirement.
 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
 What's new in version 1.4.1?
 ----------------------------
 ** Updates
 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
  (bug 880).
 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
  localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
  Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
  translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in 
  LaTeXConfig.lyx.
 ** Bug fixes
 * Document input/output:
 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
  caption (bug 675).
 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
  lyx2lyx (bug 2245).
 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
  documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
  complete fix will go in 1.4.2
 * Math editor:
 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
  math (bug 2485).
 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
  in a cell.
 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
 * User Interface:
 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
  deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
  natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
  classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
  line/document start/end (bug 2298).
 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
  file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
 * Configuration/Installation:
 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
  Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
 What's new in version 1.4.0?
 ----------------------------
--- a/23
+++ b/23
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ What do I need to run LyX?
    Either of :
    * a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin)
-    * Windows 98 or newer
+    * Windows 2000 or newer
    * Mac OS 10.2 or newer
    A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX for unix) not older
@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ How does the LyX version scheme work?
    are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
    file names:
-       lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz       -- stable release
+       lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz       -- stable release
-       lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz       -- fifth maintenance release of the
+       lyx-1.5.5.tar.gz       -- fifth maintenance release of the
                                 1.4 stable release
-       lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz   -- potentially unstable test release
+       lyx-1.5.0pre1.tar.gz   -- potentially unstable test release
    The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
    goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ How does the LyX version scheme work?
    If you get the source from Subversion, the version string will
    look like one of:
-       1.4.1svn     -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
+       1.5.1svn     -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
-               release 1.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
+               release 1.5.1 will eventually be tagged.
-       1.5.0svn     -- this is the main branch on which stable
+       1.6.0svn     -- this is the main branch on which stable
-               release 1.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
+               release 1.6.0 will eventually be tagged.
 What's new?
@ -78,11 +78,7 @@ What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
      gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.4.0, you need at
      least gcc 3.x.
-    * The Qt library, version 3.0 or newer.
+    * The Qt4 library, version 4.1.1 or newer.
      Or:
      The Qt4 library, version 4.1.1 or newer.
    Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
@ -104,6 +100,7 @@ Does LyX have support for non-English speakers/writers/readers?
    right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. There is a port
    of LyX named CJK-LyX which adds support for Chinese, Korean
    and Japanese (http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html)
    [This support is being merged in lyx-1.5]
    Menus and error messages have been translated to 17 languages.
    For the status of the different translations, see
--- a/47
+++ b/47
@ -1,47 +1,8 @@
-Known issues with version 1.4.0
+Known issues with version 1.5.0
 --------------------------------
-This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.4.0 that did not
+This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.5.0-beta1 that did not
-occur in 1.3.7. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but
+occur in 1.4.4. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but
 they have not yet been applied because of incomplete testing. 
-** Noticeable delays when editing a large document
+- None
 - exiting a math formula with the keyboard.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2217
 - creating/deleting paragraphs.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2287    
 ** Change tracking
 - Breaking a paragraph is not supported.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=880
 - Delete key does not move the cursor to the next character.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2185
 - Pasted text inserted wrong after switch of change tracking state.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2207
 - First change is skipped is "Merges changes..." dialog.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2212
 ** User Interface
 - Shift-PageDown and Shift-PageUp key combinations work only if there
  is an already active selection.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2119
 - First incorrect word is skipped when spell checking.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2218
 - Font changes do not apply to tables inside the selection when
  making latex.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1973
 - Bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors are broken after paragraph
  deletion/insertion.
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2284
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2242