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Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1)
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Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2)
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We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 1).
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We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2).
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It is the culmination of 1 year 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, with initial unicode support as the flagship
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of new features, jump directly to the end of this message if you want
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to know more.
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Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
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added some graphical improvements:
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* A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
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* The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
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* The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
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Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
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the user interface have been made, such as:
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- Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
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- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
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- Support optional argument for environments
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Compare with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1
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year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the
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results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
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with initial unicode support as the flagship of new features, jump
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directly to the end of this message if you want to know more.
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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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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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You can download LyX 1.5.0beta1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
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You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
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bzip2, which yields smaller files):
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta2.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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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
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Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
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from version 1.4.4.
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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/1.5.0beta1/
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0beta2/
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta1, you may either
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, 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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@ -78,7 +91,7 @@ Enjoy!
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The LyX team.
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
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----------------------------
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* Unicode
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now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
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parts of it synchronously.
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* Outliner
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* Outliner and embedded TOC
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LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
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you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
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dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
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1.4.4.)
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1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
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* Session managment
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LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
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* Enhanced Math Toolbars
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The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
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added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the
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math toolbars.
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Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
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panel itself has been removed and superseeded by the toolbars.
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* Frontend News
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LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
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implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
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displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
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to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
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is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
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you want to use it, add the line
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is disabled by default, and it can be enabled in the Preference
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Settings dialog, in the Converters section or, if you want to use it,
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add the line
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\use_converter_cache true
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to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
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6 months. You can change that with the line
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to your preferences file.
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The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
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that with the line
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\converter_cache_maxage xxx
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where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
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The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
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both installers are welcome.
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* Minor user interface improvements
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Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
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- Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
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- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
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- Support optional argument for environments
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* Under the hood
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As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
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Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
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* A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
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* The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
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* The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
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Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
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the user interface have been made, such as:
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- Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
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- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
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- Support optional argument for environments
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
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Known issues with version 1.5.0beta1
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Known issues with version 1.5.0beta2
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This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.5.0beta1 that did not
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This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.5.0beta2 that did not
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occur in 1.4.4. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but
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they have not yet been applied because of incomplete testing.
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- Under certain circunstances lyx crashes when generating the latex
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file (see bug #2696)
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