diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 372c910675..dc9f22d6c3 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,163 +1,163 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.3.2 +Public release of LyX version 1.3.3 =================================== -We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.2. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.3. -This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in -three main areas: - * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs - have been squashed; +This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in +four main areas: + * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved; * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed; - * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of - the user interface. + * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface; + * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of + the user interface amd documentation. The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of -this message. There have been bug fixes to the xforms frontend also, -but most of these have been made to xforms itself. To benefit you must -recompile LyX against xforms 1.0.2 or greater which is currently -available only from CVS on the new xforms development site -http://www.nongnu.org/xforms/. Note that that is _compile_ aginst the -new xforms, not _link_ against a new version of the library, as the -work-arounds will otherwise still be in place. Note also that -development of xforms is currently accelerating. We hope to have an -official xforms release soon that will cure many of the small -annoyances from which LyX currently suffers. +this message. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: - 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. + 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. - LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under - Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server. + LyX runs on many Unix platforms, OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin + (this port requires an X server). It can also run natively on Mac + OS X, thanks to the Qt/Mac library. -You can download LyX 1.3.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +You can download LyX 1.3.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files) : - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.bz2 - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.2.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2 + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2 and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with the .bz2 versions): - ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz -Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be +Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.2/ - -If you already have LyX 1.3.1 sources, you may want to apply the -following patch instead - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.2.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.2.bz2 + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/ + +If you already have LyX 1.3.2 sources, you may want to apply one +of the following patchws instead + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.gz + ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.bz2 -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.2, you may either +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.3, you may either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.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 users' list -(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there. +first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list +(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there. Enjoy! The LyX team. + What's new ========== ** Updates -- The spell-checking system has been over-hauled, including the following - changes : +- add basic support for the memoir class - o start spell-checking immediately on pressing F7 - o xforms' broken start/stop button removed - o better spell progress feedback - o long hang on ispell error changed - o infinite hang on ispell error fixed - o reports ispell errors back to the user - o the personal dictionaries are always correctly written out - o "Accept" button became "Ignore All" for clarity +- add Proof layout to elsart class and get sections to be numbered -- add support for the hspell spell-checker for hebrew [Qt only] +- make LyX compile almost out-of-the-box with Qt/Mac (see README.MacOSX) -- add support for scalable tabfolders and for 'native' tooltips - in browser widgets. You must recompile against xforms 1.0.2 or greater - to enable these new features [xforms only] +- add a bit of documentation of the AGU journals support in the + Extended manual; small tweaks to the english documentation; german + documentation overhaul; french documentation and examples update -- update dutch, finnish, german, polish [bug #1002], romanian, russian - and spanish interface localisation. Add support for nynorsk. Fix - Help>Table of Contents. +- completely new italian localization; french, german and slovenian + localization updates ** Bug fixes -- attempting to navigate to deleted text via the TOC dialog no longer - crash [bug #913] +- fix possible crash when changing text class [bug #1050] -- fix a new crash in 1.3.1 on OK in External dialog [Qt only] +- fix language setting when switching textclass -- fix mismatch between section depth and TOC depth in Document dialog +- fix math bug where formulas containing for example a \prettyref + would not be parsed correctly [bug #1126] + +- speed up conversion of large old files on some systems + +- fix bad conversion of tables from LyX 1.0 [bug #1045] + +- convert old files (0.11 series) correctly, suppressing space + between number and units [bug #763] + +- fix docbook export with nested environments [bug #821] + +- output newline and hfill correctly in docbook [bug #1148] + +- when pressing delete or backspace over a selection, do not modify + the clipboard [bug #1049] + +- when inserting a float or a note over a selection, make sure that + the insets and font changes in the selection are correctly kept + (note however that doing this now modifies the clipboard) + +- clean-up properly after completed graphics conversion processes. + +- enable graphics conversion using the default convertDefault.sh converter + when exporting, even if convertDefault.sh is not executable. + +- work around a Qt 3.1.2 bug with the environment combo box [bug #1136] + +- fix bug where browsing for files in graphics inset would always + return an absolute path [bug #1028, Qt only] + +- do not write in preference file the colors which are still at their + default value [bug #1069, Qt only] + +- fix loading of symbol fonts [Qt 3.2.0 only] + +- fix loading of symbol fonts on solaris + +- fix the math panel symbols [Qt 3.2.0 only] + +- do not reset natbib style when adding a new entry to a citation [Qt + only] + +- allow insertion of width strings like "2.5in" into tabular dialog [Qt only] -- fix float placement text not being updated in Document dialog [Qt only] +- fix some cases where the View>TeX information dialog would get + confused because the same file gets listed several times -- fix duplicate keyboard accelerator in the paragraph dialog [Qt only] +- remove annoying message on console when LyX tries to make TeX fonts + available to the X server -- in the include dialog, make "show preview" activate the OK button - [Qt only] +- it was not possible to view the french versions of the Extended and + Customization manual. -- fix display of bullet pixmaps in document dialog [bug #908, Qt 3.1.1 only] +- the lib/configure script now works correctly with zsh [bug #977] -- fix loading of included files that are under revision control +- add missing c_str.sed file in the distribution -- the Home/End keys no longer mark the document as "(changed)" +- hopefully really fix problems with patch requiring aclocal-1.6 -- the window title no longer wrongly marks document paths as coming from ~/ - [bug #993] +- fix compilation on HP-UX 11.x -- fix reading of subcaptions (in graphics inset) that contain explicit - double quote characters [bug #656] +- do not report failed inlining when compiling with gcc -- fix reading of subcaptions in files from LyX 1.1.6 or older +- fix compilation with new development versions of xforms -- add a converter from grace (.agr) files to PPM, in order to display - them in xforms frontend +- fix compilation with AikSaurus 1.0 -- fix support for \framebox macro in mathed: the argument is handled - as text, and a second optional argument is now supported - -- text-mode parts of math equations are now drawn in foreground color - instead of being hardcoded to black - -- add support for macro \bmod in mathed - -- add macro \Pr in the list of selectable functions of the math panel - -- fix document class for mwbk textclass - -- fix a couple of layouts in llncs [bug #1068] - -- fix building of xforms dialogs' source on SMP machines [Bug #944, - xforms only] - -- fix bug in generation of the RPM spec file for the Qt frontend - -- make automatic generation of autoscripts optional; this was annoying - for patches. - -- fix building on cygwin - -- fix building on NetBSD [bug #1007] diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6b86a2a40d..d75342413e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2003-09-24 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes + + * ANNOUNCE: update for 1.3.3 + 2003-09-11 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes * README.MacOSX: update