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Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
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Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
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===================================
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We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
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We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
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As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
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release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
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on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
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glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
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LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
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It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
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this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
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summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
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you want to know more.
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Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
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hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
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been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
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As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
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visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
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some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
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In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
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http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
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LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
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approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
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appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of
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visual layout to the software.
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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
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based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
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is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
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LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
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Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface
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and therefore need an X server.
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LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
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right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
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details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
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boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
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TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
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You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
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On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
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richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
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nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
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looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
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different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
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your dissertation the evening before going to press.
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
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You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
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which yields smaller files):
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ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
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and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
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the .bz2 versions):
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http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
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Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
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Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
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installers) should soon be available at
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
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Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
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available at
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
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a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
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If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
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first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list
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(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.
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first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
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e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
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Enjoy!
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The LyX team.
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New features
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============
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** Qt frontend
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What's new in version 1.4.0?
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----------------------------
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This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
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either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
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of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
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functionally equivalent.
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** Improved user interface
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** Xforms frontend
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LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
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clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
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menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
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the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
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classic UI) is still available, for now.
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The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
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frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
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implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
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most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
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It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
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editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
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the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
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extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
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available: one for tables, and one for math.
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Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
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version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
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General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
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many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
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are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
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In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
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Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next
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release. You have been warned ;-)
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Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
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toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
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table.
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In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
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invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
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Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
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highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
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feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
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** Change tracking
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** Gnome frontend
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This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
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makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
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changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
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changes.
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Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
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stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
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strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
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developer's list.
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** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
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** Instant preview
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The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
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and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
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parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
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much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
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preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
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of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
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LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
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Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
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allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
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figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
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rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
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preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
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actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
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** Character styles
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** Math editor
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There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
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visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
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a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
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formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
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minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
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package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
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structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
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anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
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the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
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"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
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behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
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get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
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support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
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"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
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trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
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- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
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in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
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- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
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will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
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removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
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like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
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the inset and press 'backspace'.
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** Reading old files
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LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
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produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
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created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
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in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
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There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
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_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
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to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
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1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
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** Miscellaneous changes
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- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
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equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
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configure your font server).
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- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
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for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
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tables of contents.
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- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
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to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
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removed in 1.2.0
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- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
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spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
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multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
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installed.
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For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
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logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
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omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
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addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
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styles.
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** Branches
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The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
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seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
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document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
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That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
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"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
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more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
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** Minipages evolve to Boxes
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In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
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use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
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GUI
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** Notes
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LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
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the Insert>Note menu:
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- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
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- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
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further.
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- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
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well, greyed-out text.
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** Better language and numbering on screen
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Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
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- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
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the language of the document, which may be different from the
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language of the menus;
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- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
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document class specifications.
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** Word count
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Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
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count of the document or of the current selection.
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** Error Lists
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Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
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of errors popping up at compilation time.
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** Improved bibliography support
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- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
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"before citation" field is supported;
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- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
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flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
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and law fields;
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- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
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- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
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index processor is invoked).
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** Improved microtypography support
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LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
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- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
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between "e." and "g.");
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- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
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style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
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- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
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improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
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much space between figure/table and caption.
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** Small bits
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- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
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- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
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pdf generation
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- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
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edit the included figure
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- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
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has poor support for other than English index sorting.
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** Bug fixes
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Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
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bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
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2006-01-19 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
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* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): do not distribute INSTALL.OS2 and
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README.OS2.
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* ANNOUNCE:
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* README:
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* INSTALL: a first update for 1.4.0.
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2006-01-04 Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu>
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* INSTALL.MacOSX: update.
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INSTALL
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INSTALL
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If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have:
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* automake >= 1.5
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* automake >= 1.9
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* autoconf >= 2.52
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* gettext >= 0.12
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Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
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flags:
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o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
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want to use. Default is "xforms", and the other possible value is
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"qt".
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want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required.
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o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
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find extra libraries (Xpm, xforms, qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
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directories, separated by colons.
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o --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY that gives the place where LyX will find
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xforms headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
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extra headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
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You can specify several directories, separated by colons.
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o --with-extra-prefix[=DIRECTORY] that is equivalent to
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--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
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If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
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o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.3.1
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The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.3.1/.
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o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.4.1
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The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.4.1/.
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Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
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$HOME/.lyx-1.3.1
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$HOME/.lyx-1.4.1
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You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
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on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
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optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
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compilers, but LyX will run more slowly.
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o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
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requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
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debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
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for development versions and prereleases only.
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There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
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LyX:
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In particular, the following options could be useful in some desperate
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cases:
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o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
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requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
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debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
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for development versions and prereleases only.
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o --enable-warnings that make the compiler output more warnings during
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the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
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this flag is on for development versions only.
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is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
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development versions only.
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o --enable-stdlib-debug adds some debug code in the standard
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library; this slows down the code, but has been helpful in the
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past to find bugs. By default, this flag is on for development
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versions only.
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o --enable-concept-checks adds some compile-time checks. There is no
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run-time penalty. By default, this flag is on for development
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versions only.
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o --without-latex-config that disables the automatic detection of your
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latex configuration. This detection is automatically disabled if
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latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this
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@ -326,26 +334,6 @@ team member or users to help compiling on some particular
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architectures. If you find that some of this hints are wrong, please
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notify us.
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o If you have problems indicating that configure cannot find a part of
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the xforms or Xpm library, use the --with-extra-lib and --with-extra-inc
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options of configure to specify where these libraries reside.
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o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
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if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible:
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- you have not installed the kernel sources. Then you should
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install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
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whatever it is called in your distribution).
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- you have the sources, but you did a 'make mrproper' in the
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kernel directory (this this removes some symbolic links that
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are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
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sources fixes that.
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o if you are using RedHat Linux 7.x, you must make sure you have the
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latest updated gcc and related packages installed (at least -85),
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or LyX will not compile or will be mis-compiled.
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o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
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work with Solaris make.
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SUBDIRS = config development intl po src sourcedoc lib
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endif
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EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.OS2 INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
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INSTALL.MacOSX README.OS2 README.Win32 \
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EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
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INSTALL.MacOSX README.Win32 \
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UPGRADING lyx.man autogen.sh
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man_MANS = lyx.1
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95
README
95
README
@ -1,31 +1,32 @@
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What is LyX?
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LyX is an advanced, open-source "document processor". Unlike
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standard word processors, LyX encourages writing based on the
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structure of your documents, not their appearance. It lets you
|
||||
concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the
|
||||
software.
|
||||
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to
|
||||
writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
|
||||
appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source
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license.
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You can read more about this concept in the documentation,
|
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which you'll find under the Help menu. If you plan to use LyX,
|
||||
you really should read about it to be able to make the best of
|
||||
it.
|
||||
LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
|
||||
right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
|
||||
details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
|
||||
page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
|
||||
legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
|
||||
|
||||
What is LyX not?
|
||||
On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output
|
||||
-- or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced --
|
||||
looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland
|
||||
.docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out
|
||||
unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the
|
||||
crashes 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to
|
||||
press.
|
||||
|
||||
LyX is not just another word processor that claims to be a
|
||||
Desktop Publishing program. It's a more modern way of
|
||||
creating documents that look much nicer, but without wasting
|
||||
time with layout-fiddling. For these reasons you might need
|
||||
a little time to get used to the differences.
|
||||
If you are looking for a free Desktop Publishing program for
|
||||
Unix, you will be disappointed.
|
||||
LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
|
||||
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and
|
||||
the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
|
||||
|
||||
What do I need to run LyX?
|
||||
|
||||
Either of :
|
||||
* a Unix-like system (or Windows with cygwin, OS/2 with XFree)
|
||||
with at least X11R5
|
||||
* a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin)
|
||||
* Windows 98 or newer
|
||||
* Mac OS 10.2 or newer
|
||||
|
||||
@ -67,16 +68,6 @@ What's new?
|
||||
|
||||
Read NEWS.
|
||||
|
||||
How do I install .tar.gz a binary distribution of LyX?
|
||||
|
||||
Unpack it and run it. We recommend unpacking it in /usr/local,
|
||||
but it should work anywhere. In particular, you can try LyX
|
||||
in a temporary directory 'my_bin' before installing permanently
|
||||
by typing "my_bin/lyx".
|
||||
|
||||
You should read the notes regarding this particular build in
|
||||
the file README.bin.
|
||||
|
||||
How do I upgrade from an earlier LyX version?
|
||||
|
||||
Read the file UPGRADING for info on this subject.
|
||||
@ -107,7 +98,7 @@ 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 via the Edit>Preferences menu.
|
||||
User-level configuration is possible via the Tools>Preferences menu.
|
||||
|
||||
Does LyX have support for non-English speakers/writers/readers?
|
||||
|
||||
@ -116,43 +107,11 @@ Does LyX have support for non-English speakers/writers/readers?
|
||||
of LyX named CJK-LyX which adds support for Chinese, Korean
|
||||
and Japanese (http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html)
|
||||
|
||||
Menus and error messages have been translated to the following
|
||||
languages (* means there are language-specific keyboard menu
|
||||
bindings as well):
|
||||
Menus and error messages have been translated to 17 languages.
|
||||
For the status of the different translations, see
|
||||
http://www.lyx.org/devel/i18n.php
|
||||
|
||||
French (fr)
|
||||
Spanish (es)
|
||||
Italian (it)
|
||||
Danish (da)
|
||||
Basque (eu)
|
||||
Nynorsk (nn)
|
||||
Finnish (fi) *
|
||||
German (de) *
|
||||
Russian (ru)
|
||||
Polish (pl)
|
||||
Slovak (sk)
|
||||
Slovenian (sl)
|
||||
Romanian (ro)
|
||||
Norwegian (no)
|
||||
Dutch (nl)
|
||||
|
||||
Keymaps can ease typing in one or more of the following languages:
|
||||
|
||||
Arabic
|
||||
Bulgarian
|
||||
Czech
|
||||
French, Swiss French
|
||||
German, Swiss German
|
||||
Greek
|
||||
Hebrew
|
||||
Hungarian (Magyar)
|
||||
Latvian
|
||||
Polish
|
||||
Portugese
|
||||
Romanian
|
||||
Slovenian
|
||||
Turkish
|
||||
Ukrainian
|
||||
Keymaps can ease typing in many languages.
|
||||
|
||||
Internet resources of relevance to LyX
|
||||
|
||||
@ -171,8 +130,8 @@ Internet resources of relevance to LyX
|
||||
The LyX Development page has information about the development
|
||||
effort. LyX is under CVS control, so you can get the very
|
||||
latest sources from there at any time.
|
||||
http://www.devel.lyx.org/
|
||||
ftp://www.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
|
||||
http://www.lyx.org/devel
|
||||
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
|
||||
|
||||
How do I submit a bug report?
|
||||
|
||||
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