From 8dcf6d7871fe8ac3ef2a202cbb727865ba391efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Lars=20Gullik=20Bj=C3=B8nnes?= Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 11:29:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] upgrading patch from John git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@4104 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ UPGRADING | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8ed8b89b51..55ac0df491 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2002-05-01 John Levon + + * UPGRADING: more details on upgrading + 2002-04-26 Lars Gullik Bjønnes * Makefile.am (DISTCLEANFILES): don't use -r diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index cd1dbfd91c..fb07587fb9 100644 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.2.x? If you upgrade from version 1.1.6 or 1.1.5, you shouldn't have any problems. It is nevertheless a good idea to advise all users to run -Edit>Reconfigure. +Edit->Reconfigure. If you have your own layout files, you may need to update them a little: @@ -15,26 +15,59 @@ If you have your own layout files, you may need to update them a little: The new layout format keywords are described in the Customization manual. +Build requirements +------------------ + +LyX's graphics handling system has changed substantially. If you +do not have the JPEG library installed, you may need to install +it before you can use the graphics capabilities of LyX. If you +do not have the ImageMagick command-line tools installed, you +will need to modify the default set up of LyX, or install them, +in order to get previews of your document's graphics. + +Note: if you are using convert, and the graphics won't load in LyX, +then you are probably seeing a bug in earlier versions of ImageMagick. +You can either upgrade ImageMagick, change the convertor to use +"convert -depth 8", which shold work around the problem, or set up +a convertor to use a different conversion program as described in +the documentation. + +http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360 + Document transfer ----------------- In general, you don't need to convert any documents saved with LyX 1.1.5 or 1.1.6 to use them with LyX 1.2.0. -LyX 1.2.0 can read all documents saved with lyx 1.1.6 correctly. -However, older LyX versions will almost certainly fail to read files -produced by LyX 1.2.0. +Older versions of LyX cannot read documents saved with LyX 1.2.0. + +LyX 1.2.0 can read most documents saved with lyx 1.1.6 correctly. +If you were previously using the floatflt paragraph option to +wrap text around a figure, you will need to modify this for LyX 1.2.0 +manually, as described in the manuals. Please ask on the lyx-users +list for assistance if you have trouble with this. + Note that your document may rely on the floatflt package (for example, you may use \floatingfigure via LaTeX commands). If your document does not have "\usepackage{floatflt}" already in the user pre-amble, you will need to add it. -Note that the babel package is now loaded after the user-defined +The babel package is now loaded after the user-defined preamble (because some packages really need to be loaded before babel). If you relied, on babel being loaded before your own definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at the beginning of your preamble. +http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315 +If you are using the minipage paragraph options in your document, you +may find that LyX 1.2.0 fails to import them correctly as minipages. +This might require some editing to correct this. If you have +trouble with this, please ask the lyx-users mailing list for assistance, +and we will be happy to help. +http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374 +http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375 +http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376