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2006-01-25 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
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* NEWS: update for 1.4.0.
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2006-01-24 John Spray <spray@lyx.org>
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* configure.ac: the gtk frontend does not need xforms anymore.
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What's new in version 1.4.0?
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----------------------------
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A long time since 1.3.0 now and a lot has happened. Alsmost the whole
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core of LyX has been rewritten.
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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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** Improved user interface
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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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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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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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** Change tracking
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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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** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
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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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** Character styles
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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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What's new in version 1.3.7?
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We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
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addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
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noting:
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- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
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the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
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- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
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installer and in the handling of file names.
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All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
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What's new in version 1.3.6?
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Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
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To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
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to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
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effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
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unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
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touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
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confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
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Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
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We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
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* It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
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spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
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as teTeX 3.0).
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* It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
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and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
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* LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
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considered as part of words
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What's new in version 1.3.5?
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This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
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improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
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* Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
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broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
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case where the files are in different directories.
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* It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
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What's new in version 1.3.4?
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This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
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five main areas:
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* It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
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* Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
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they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
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* New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
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drag-and-drop);
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* Mac OS X support is much improved;
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* The interface and documentation localization have
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been polished.
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What's new in version 1.3.3?
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This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
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four main areas:
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* import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
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* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
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* MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
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* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
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the user interface and documentation.
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What's new in version 1.3.2?
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This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
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three main areas:
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* the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
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have been squashed;
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* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
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* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
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the user interface.
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What's new in version 1.3.1?
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LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
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features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
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significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
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also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
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improvements) for good measure.
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** Updates
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- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
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is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
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- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
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descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
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- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
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polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
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Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
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scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
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class kluwer
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- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
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keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
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(documentation has been updated too)
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- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
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spanish translation of menus
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- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
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of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
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release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
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What's new in version 1.3.0?
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Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
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default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
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template.
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