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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
you want to know more.
summarize in a few words, with initial unicode support as the flagship
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-1.4.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
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/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
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
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/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-1.5.0.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
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
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The LyX team.
What's new in version 1.4.0?
What's new in version 1.5.0?
----------------------------
** Improved user interface
* Unicode
LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
classic UI) is still available, for now.
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.
It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
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.
* Multiple views of the same buffer
Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
table.
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.
** Change tracking
* Outliner
This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
changes.
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.)
** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
* Session managment
The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
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.
** Character styles
* Source code Viewer
For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
styles.
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
** 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
seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
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.
That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
* Glossaries
** 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
use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
GUI
* Tabbed Widget
** Notes
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
the Insert>Note menu:
* Frontend News
- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
further.
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
well, greyed-out text.
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.
** 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
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.
* Converter file cache
** 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
count of the document or of the current selection.
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
** Error Lists
where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
of errors popping up at compilation time.
* Under the hood
** Improved bibliography support
- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
"before citation" field is supported;
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
and law fields;
- 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.
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 ;-)

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NEWS
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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?
----------------------------

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@ -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-1.4.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz -- stable release
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
release 1.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
1.5.0svn -- this is the main branch on which stable
release 1.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
1.5.1svn -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
release 1.5.1 will eventually be tagged.
1.6.0svn -- this is the main branch on which stable
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.
Or:
The Qt4 library, version 4.1.1 or newer.
* 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

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@ -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
occur in 1.3.7. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but
This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.5.0-beta1 that did not
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
- 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
- None