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ANNOUNCE
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Public release of LyX version 1.2.2
Public release of LyX version 1.2.3
===================================
What is LyX?
------------
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.2.3.
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 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
With the familiar face of a WISYWIG word processor, LyX produces high
quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an industrial
strength typesetting engine. No knowledge of LaTeX is required to
use LyX; however, there is also a "TeX mode" which allows you to enter
plain LaTeX commands.
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
All in all, LyX is a complete environment for writing documents. It has
superior support for scientific writing, but works well for any kind of
document.
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.
Read more about LyX (including screenshots) at:
http://www.lyx.org/
What can LyX do?
----------------
A very incomplete feature list:
- "standard" word processing: fonts, cut & paste, infinite undo...
- footnotes, citations, cross-referencing, faxes, spellchecking
- almost any math expression (with a simple, but powerfull interface)
- automatic, multilevel outline support (enumerated or bullets)
- tables and embedded figures support (with automatic conversion)
- import LaTeX or ASCII
- export LaTeX, ASCII, DVI, PostScript, LinuxDoc-SGML, DocBook-SGML
- fair support for non-English documents and/or menus
- extensive documentation, including a tutorial
- version control using RCS (some support for CVS)
How stable is LyX?
------------------
This release is considered stable, but as with any software, you should
take appropriate back-up steps in a production environment.
Where can I get it?
-------------------
LyX is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), which
means that you can not only use it freely, but also modify and
redistribute it, provided that you include the source of the program.
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.
The main LyX site is
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/
The source code package is available at:
You can download LyX 1.2.3 here :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz
and at the mirrors listed above.
Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.3
You need to have XForms version 0.88 or newer to compile your own
version. Version 1.0 is highly recommended. LyX should also compile
with 0.88 and 0.89.6.
If you already have LyX 1.2.2 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.3.gz
Credits
-------
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.3, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
The LyX Team is composed of volunteers from around the world. Many, many
people have helped make the 1.2.2 release possible, including:
Lars Gullik Bjoennes, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra, Asger Alstrup,
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Juergen Vigna, John P. Weiss, Bernhard Iselborn,
Andre Spiegel, Allan Rae, Henner Zeller, Robert van der Kamp,
David L. Johnson, Amir Karger, Joacim Persson, Peter Suetterlin,
SMiyata, Alkis Polyzotis, ...
Special thanks should go to Matthias Ettrich who started it all.
Feedback
--------
Please direct any comments or questions to the appropriate mailing list as
described on the LyX homepage (http://www.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 user's list if you
can't find an answer there.
Enjoy!
The LyX Team
The LyX team.
What's new
==========
** Updates
- updated italian User Guide
** Bug fixes
- fix bug where the configure script would try to delete the /dev/null
device when there has been an error in configuration step
- fix bug where autosaving would leave a lot of zombie processes after
a long time
- fix problem where it was not possible to force some values to 0 in
custom margins
- fix bug where horizontal alignment would be reset automatically to
"left" in the tabular dialog.
- fix functions word-find-forward and word-find-backward, which
meaning was inverted
- when the lyx binary was actually a symbolic link, LyX printed
annoying debug messages on console; they are debug messages now
- fix an installation issue with solaris

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2003-01-08 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
* ANNOUNCE:
* INSTALL:
* NEWS: update for 1.2.3
2002-12-16 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
* configure.in (VERSION): back to 1.2.3cvs

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It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
libraries, and their associated header files.
As of LyX version 1.2.2, you will need to have Xforms library and
As of LyX version 1.2.x, you will need to have Xforms library and
header version 0.88, 0.89 or 1.0.0. The later is the one which works
best (many bugs have been fixed in this version after reports from the
LyX team). On some systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared

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What's new in version 1.2.3?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
** Updates
- updated italian User Guide
** Bug fixes
- fix bug where the configure script would try to delete the /dev/null
device when there has been an error in configuration step
- fix bug where autosaving would leave a lot of zombie processes after
a long time
- fix problem where it was not possible to force some values to 0 in
custom margins
- fix bug where horizontal alignment would be reset automatically to
"left" in the tabular dialog.
- fix functions word-find-forward and word-find-backward, which
meaning was inverted
- when the lyx binary was actually a symbolic link, LyX printed
annoying debug messages on console; they are debug messages now
- fix an installation issue with solaris
What's new in version 1.2.2?
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possible file names:
lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz -- stable release
lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz -- second maintenance release of the
lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz -- third maintenance release of the
1.2.0 stable release
lyx-1.2.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release