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Public release of LyX version 1.2.0
Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
===================================
What is LyX?
------------
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
Read more about LyX (including screenshots) at:
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.
http://www.lyx.org/
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.
What can LyX do?
----------------
You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
A very incomplete feature list:
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
- "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)
and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
How stable is LyX?
------------------
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
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?
-------------------
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 user's mailing list (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
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.
The main LyX site is
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
with mirrors at
ftp://alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/lyx
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/packages/lyx/
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/
ftp://ftp.fciencias.unam.mx/pub/Lyx/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/LyX/
The source code package is available at:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz
and at the mirrors listed above.
You need to have XForms version 0.88 or newer to compile your own
version. Version 0.89 is highly recommended. LyX should also compile
with 0.88.
Credits
-------
The LyX Team is composed of volunteers from around the world. Many, many
people have helped make the 1.2.0 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.
New features
============
** Qt frontend
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.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
displayed properly.
** Xforms frontend
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.
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.
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.
** Gnome frontend
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.
** Instant preview
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.
** 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.

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2003-02-04 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
* ANNOUNCE:
* INSTALL:
* README: mention that all qt 3.x should work (not only 3.0.x).
* INSTALL: mention python 1.5.2.
* NEWS: add entry for LyX 1.2.3

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INSTALL
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* Qt frontend
LyX has been tested with both Qt 2.x and 3.0.x libraries. The only special
LyX has been tested with both Qt 2.x and 3.x libraries. The only special
point to make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries
are compiled with the same C++ compiler.

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NEWS
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----------------------------
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
the `under the hood' changes to the code have again been very
important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
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!
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.
** Qt frontend
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
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.
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** Xforms frontend
The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
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.

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README
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the LGPL version 1.0.
* LibXpm, version 4.7 or newer.
Or:
* The Qt library, version 2.x or 3.0.x.
* The Qt library, version 2.x or 3.x.
Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.