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Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
===================================
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
It is the culmination of 3 years 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.
Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
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
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
appearance. LyX 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 license.
LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface
and therefore need an X server.
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.
You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
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.
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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.
and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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
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.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/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
Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
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/
Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, 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
If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list
(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
Enjoy!
The LyX team.
New features
============
** Qt frontend
What's new in version 1.4.0?
----------------------------
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
functionally equivalent.
** Improved user interface
** Xforms frontend
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.
The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
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.
Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next
release. You have been warned ;-)
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.
In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
** Change tracking
** Gnome frontend
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.
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
developer's list.
** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
** Instant preview
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.
preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
** Character styles
** Math editor
There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
the inset and press 'backspace'.
** Reading old files
LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
** Miscellaneous changes
- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
tables of contents.
- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
removed in 1.2.0
- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
installed.
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.
** Branches
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.
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.
** Minipages evolve to Boxes
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
** Notes
LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
the Insert>Note menu:
- 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.
** Better language and numbering on screen
Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
- 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.
** Word count
Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
count of the document or of the current selection.
** Error Lists
Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
of errors popping up at compilation time.
** 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.
** 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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2006-01-19 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): do not distribute INSTALL.OS2 and
README.OS2.
* ANNOUNCE:
* README:
* INSTALL: a first update for 1.4.0.
2006-01-04 Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu>
* INSTALL.MacOSX: update.

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INSTALL
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----------------------
If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have:
* automake >= 1.5
* automake >= 1.9
* autoconf >= 2.52
* gettext >= 0.12
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
@ -133,8 +133,7 @@ For more complicated cases, LyX configure takes the following specific
flags:
o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
want to use. Default is "xforms", and the other possible value is
"qt".
want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required.
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (Xpm, xforms, qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
@ -142,17 +141,17 @@ flags:
directories, separated by colons.
o --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY that gives the place where LyX will find
xforms headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
extra headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
You can specify several directories, separated by colons.
o --with-extra-prefix[=DIRECTORY] that is equivalent to
--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.3.1
The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.3.1/.
o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.4.1
The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.4.1/.
Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
$HOME/.lyx-1.3.1
$HOME/.lyx-1.4.1
You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
@ -171,11 +170,6 @@ flags:
optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
compilers, but LyX will run more slowly.
o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
for development versions and prereleases only.
There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
LyX:
@ -236,6 +230,11 @@ this file.
In particular, the following options could be useful in some desperate
cases:
o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
for development versions and prereleases only.
o --enable-warnings that make the compiler output more warnings during
the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
this flag is on for development versions only.
@ -245,6 +244,15 @@ cases:
is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
development versions only.
o --enable-stdlib-debug adds some debug code in the standard
library; this slows down the code, but has been helpful in the
past to find bugs. By default, this flag is on for development
versions only.
o --enable-concept-checks adds some compile-time checks. There is no
run-time penalty. By default, this flag is on for development
versions only.
o --without-latex-config that disables the automatic detection of your
latex configuration. This detection is automatically disabled if
latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this
@ -326,26 +334,6 @@ team member or users to help compiling on some particular
architectures. If you find that some of this hints are wrong, please
notify us.
o If you have problems indicating that configure cannot find a part of
the xforms or Xpm library, use the --with-extra-lib and --with-extra-inc
options of configure to specify where these libraries reside.
o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible:
- you have not installed the kernel sources. Then you should
install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
whatever it is called in your distribution).
- you have the sources, but you did a 'make mrproper' in the
kernel directory (this this removes some symbolic links that
are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
sources fixes that.
o if you are using RedHat Linux 7.x, you must make sure you have the
latest updated gcc and related packages installed (at least -85),
or LyX will not compile or will be mis-compiled.
o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
work with Solaris make.

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SUBDIRS = config development intl po src sourcedoc lib
endif
EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.OS2 INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
INSTALL.MacOSX README.OS2 README.Win32 \
EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
INSTALL.MacOSX README.Win32 \
UPGRADING lyx.man autogen.sh
man_MANS = lyx.1

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What is LyX?
LyX is an advanced, open-source "document processor". Unlike
standard word processors, LyX encourages writing based on the
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
license.
You can read more about this concept in the documentation,
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?