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ANNOUNCE

@@ -1,101 +1,171 @@
-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
+As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
-word processors, LyX encourages writing based on the structure of your
+release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
-documents, not their appearance, It lets you concentrate on writing,
+on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
-leaving details of visual layout to the software.
+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
+Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
-quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an industrial
+hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
-strength typesetting engine. No knowledge of LaTeX is required to
+been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
-use LyX; however, there is also a "TeX mode" which allows you to enter
-plain LaTeX commands.
 
-All in all, LyX is a complete environment for writing documents. It has
+In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-superior support for scientific writing, but works well for any kind of
+http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
-document.
 
-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...
+and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
-- 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?
+        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
+If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
-means that you can not only use it freely, but also modify and
+first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
-redistribute it, provided that you include the source of the program.
+can't find an answer there.  
-
-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/).
 
 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.
+
+

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 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

INSTALL

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
 
 * 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.
 

NEWS

@@ -2,16 +2,19 @@ What's new in version 1.3.0?
 ----------------------------
 
 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
+release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
-the `under the hood' changes to the code have again been very
+on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
-important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
+glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this. 
-a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
+LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
-announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+
+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.
 
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ displayed properly.
 
 ** 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.

README

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
 	  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.