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Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
===================================
Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (alpha 2)
=============================================
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
We are pleased to announce the second alpha release of LyX 1.6.0 (the
first to be publicly announced).
Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
we have updated the documentation.
Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
the end of this announcement for further details.
LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result.
As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). An updated list of
compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.4). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
You can download LyX 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
You can download LyX 1.6.0alpha2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2
Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.5.
from version 1.5.4.
Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.5.0/
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.6.0alpha2/
As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
users:
* LyX-1.5.0-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0-Installer-bundle.exe;
* LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known
as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback
and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
the merge of the two installers, which is expected to happen during the
1.5.x series of LyX development.
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0, you may either
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
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The LyX team.
What's new in version 1.5.0 ?
What's new in version 1.6.0alpha2?
----------------------------
* Unicode
LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.
* Integrated CJK support
The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
* Language support
In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
have full user interface support.
* Multiple views of the same buffer
LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
parts of it synchronously.
* Outliner and embedded TOC
LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
* Session management
LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
* Source code Viewer
As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
document.
* New Font Selection Interface
LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
* Tabular extensions
LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
* Nomenclatures
LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
glossaries and fancy notations.
* Tabbed Widget
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
* Enhanced Math Toolbars
The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
to the math toolbars.
Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
* Frontend News
LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
essentially stalled.
* Change tracking enhancements
Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
* Converter file cache
A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
is enabled by default.
The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
that with the line
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
* Unified Windows installer
The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
both installers are welcome.
* Program listings
The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
* LaTeX-package support
LyX provides the following new document classes:
- article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
- presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
- curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
- curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
- curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
* Minor user interface improvements
Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
- Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
- Support for optional arguments for environments.
* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
(but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
even after the selection has been cleared.
* Limited support for local class and layout files
Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
should you use different directories for master and child documents.
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
series has been to bring this speed back.
** Bug fixes
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16

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NEWS
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What's new in version 1.6.0alpha1?
What's new in version 1.6.0alpha2?
----------------------------
The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
What's new in version 1.5.4?
----------------------------
** Updates:
***********
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- New manual "LyX's detailed math manual" available in English, French,
and German. It includes the content of the example file "mathed.lyx",
which is no more shipped separately.
- New section "Floats Side by Side" in the EmbeddedObjects manual.
- New Spanish translation of the FAQ manual and the mathed example file.
- New Japanese splash LyX file.
- Updated French and Spanish Introduction manual.
- Updated German, French, and Spanish Tutorial manual.
- Updated German User's Guide manual.
- New Russian translation of the user interface.
- Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
and Spanish translations of the user interface.
- New example files that demonstrate how to create serial letters with
the KOMA letter class.
* USER INTERFACE
- LyX gives more instructive information if a character cannot be encoded
properly. Most notably, the offending character is highlighted both in
the work area and in the "View Source" pane (bug 3511).
- Initial support for shift + right-mouse-click selection (bug 2304).
- The on-screen appearance of spaces has been improved.
- New shortcut "C-M-n" to create numbered formulas.
- Character counting added to "Count Words" function (bug 2819).
- The BibTeX dialog now has buttons to move databases up or down
the list.
- New toolbar button to create boxes.
- Keyboard shortcuts for TOC window buttons were introduced. For outlining
you can use "M-p Left/Right/Up/Down" keys. Note that depth-in/decrement
LFUNs are still reachable via "M-S-Left/Right" shortcuts (bug 4456).
- Improve cursor movement around lines with ending line-breaks.
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Use package wrapfig instead of floatflt for wrap figure floats. Note
that this might slightly change the output (cf. the file RELEASE-NOTES).
- Support to paste text containing ligatures to LyX.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
- The Windows version is compiled with MSVC 2008.
It is no longer necessary to install the Windows SDK and other patches,
these things are now also included in the Express edition.
- Viewers wrapper xdg-open was removed due to the problems on environments
without desktop managers. Waiting for upstream fixes.
** Bug fixes:
*************
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Fix LaTeX output of documents with both CJK and non-CJK languages.
LyX is basically ready for multilingual CJK now (bug 4337).
- Fix internal conversion from ucs4 to cp-1255 (LyX didn't recognize
the Hebrew character tav [0x5EA] as a valid character in cp-1255)
(bug 4439).
- Fix import of LaTeX files that use the inputenc option "utf8x" (part
of bug 4503).
- Rotated floats are now correctly converted to ERT when exporting to LyX
format < 1.4.0.
- Fix the LaTeX output of boxes (bug 2492).
- Assure that the package "pdfcolmk" is loaded after the package color.
- Consider graphic drivers when loading the package "xcolor".
- Fix LaTeX code for line spacing when using the memoir class.
- Perform additional latex run if package clefval is used.
- The "dvi viewer paper options" switch now supports all known
paper sizes (bug 4432).
- "letter" is no more hardcoded as default dvips paper size
(bug 2098).
* USER INTERFACE:
- Fix crashes after LyX tried to access files on non-existing or unmounted
drives (bugs 4052, 4440, 4534).
- Fix a crash when changing the document encoding while View->Source
is open (bug 3561).
- Fix an assertion when inserting a non-CJK character in a CJK paragraph
(bug 4349).
- Fix a crash when opening a document with relative path (bug 4517).
- Fix a crash after converting a formula to eqnarray while a selection
was active (bug 4452).
- Fix an assertion when inserting a box in a list while at least one
paragraph of that list was selected (bug 4502).
- Fix a crash when opening a file that resides in a hidden directory
(bug 4513).
- Fix a crash when deleting outlined insets while the outline panel
is open (bug 4547).
- Fix a crash following the input of an invalid paragraph separation
value in the document settings dialog (bug 4556).
- Fix a crash when inserting a math formula into a character style
inset. In order to fix this, the status bar information that was
displayed when hovering over a char style had to be disabled for
the time being (bug 4559).
- Fix a crash when pressing "page up" while the cursor is in an empty
paragraph (bug 4570).
- Do not exit after catching an iconv exception (bug 4385, part 2).
- Fix update/drawing of character style insets.
- Keep unapplied content of the document settings dialog after
clicking in the main window (bug 4302).
- Select the correct list in the outliner when right-clicking on the
TOC- or a "List-of-"inset (bug 4260).
- Fix access to network drives on Windows.
- "Accept compound words" in Preferences->Spellchecker now also works
with aspell (library) (bug 4408).
- Overwrite selected text when inserting from the math panel (bug 4055,
part 2).
- Fix copying of insets to external clipboard and display of insets
in the navigaton menu (bug 4472).
- Fix pasting of multiple tabular cells on Mac and Windows (bug 4436).
- Fix the function "mark-on" (bug 2913).
- Fix rows alignment in the gather environment (part of bug 1497).
- Add missing pdflatex format to Export->Custom.
- Add a check box to the formula numbering menu entries and disable
them as needed.
- Avoid multiple warning messages from menu system at start-up.
- Avoid spurious warning messages about translation of "Plain text" at
start-up.
- Add unicode support for missing space modifier letters.
- Add unicode support for many IPA characters.
- The case-changing functions do not select text anymore.
- Set correct width for labels in document class "letter (KOMA-Script
v.2)" (bug 4529).
- Fix section counter problem in Portuguese localization (bug 4563).
- Load the amsmath package when \implies is used (bug 4561).
* DOCUMENTATION
- Document in the User's Guide how to dissolve insets (bug 3687).
- Fix the bibliography of the French User's Guide.
- Fix a document preamble font entry that prevented the User's Guide
from beeing exported to PDF in some cases.
- Fix preamble error in the template file "koma-letter2.lyx".
* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
- Small cleanup to the INSTALL file.
- New script postats.py used to generate translation statistics for the
main page.
- Dutch dictionary now downloads.
- Fix compilation with gcc 4.3 (soon to be released).
What's new in version 1.5.3?
----------------------------
** Updates:
***********
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
Norwegian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user
interface.
- New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx".
- New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual.
- Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide.
- Revised Tutorial
* USER INTERFACE
- The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has
seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing
within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon
as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of
Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in
performance thanks to this change.
- The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance
can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease
on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the
cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on
(Mac and Windows only).
- The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either
keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445).
- Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a
consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs.
- The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils
and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate
to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78).
- It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them
typeset without switching to the proper language.
- Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263).
- The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished:
they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is
not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by
"View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse
button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset
is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it.
- Inset-dissolve now works in mathed.
- Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section
in the math toolbar.
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- tex2lyx now imports the following LaTeX commands and environments:
- \newline
- environments "framed" and "shaded" from package framed.sty (i.e. framed
and shaded notes in LyX)
- \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage, and \inputencoding (bug 27).
- all font settings that are natively supported by LyX.
- all quotation marks (bug 2703).
- xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers).
** Bug fixes:
*************
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line
(bug 4255).
- Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that
contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333).
- Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.1.6) that used
the "default" language.
- Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an
exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385).
- Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but
not using also Theorem (bug 4282).
- Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained
URLs (bug 2265).
- If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the
system one.
- Use package "float" when the default placement for floats is set to
'Here, definitely'.
- Fix import of bounding box arguments "natheight", "natwidth", "bbllx",
"bblly", "bburx" and "bbury" (bug 4418).
* USER INTERFACE:
- Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301).
- Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable.
- Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318).
- Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its
content is selected (bug 4323).
- Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334).
- Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs
(bug 4317).
- Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330).
- Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335).
- Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the
appendix and it is empty (bug 4352).
- Fix a crash when editing in an inset that contains an horizontal spring
(hfill).
- Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line
tabular cell (bug 4368).
- Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via
Insert->File->Plain Text...
- Fix a crash when using the regex search of the citation dialog (bug 4421).
- Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in
the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268).
- Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and
in the output (bug 3172).
- Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337).
- Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files
(bug 4287).
- Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last
of several misspelled words (bug 3586).
- Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second
run (bug 2218).
- If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it
was not aligned correctly. This is fixed.
- Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147).
- Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371).
- Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text...
- Fix middle-mouse paste from other apps into LyX (bug 4394).
- Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326).
- Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330).
- Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308).
- Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter).
- Fix a bug when adding a math formula column.
- Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829).
- Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only).
- Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user
interface.
- Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog
(bug 4277).
- Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090).
- Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999).
- Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified
(bug 4266).
- Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359).
- Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters.
- Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344).
- Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu
(bug 3888).
- Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog.
- Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset.
- Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view.
- Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345).
- Fix on-screen numbering of mwrep and mwbk classes (bug 4419).
* DOCUMENTATION
- Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations).
- Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation
"Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion
of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0.
- Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French
version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the
EmbeddedObjects documentation.
- Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial
(bug 4328).
- Document that the list of recently edited files is lost when
upgrading from LyX 1.4.x.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
- Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons.
- Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are
taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only).
- Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by
"make clean".
- Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1.
What's new in version 1.5.2?
----------------------------
** Updates:
***********
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
For a detailed changelog, see
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status
- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.
- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
* longtable alignment.
* scaled and rotated material.
- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
"Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too.
- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
Simplified Chinese.
- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian,
Japanese, Portuguese and Romanian translations of the user interface.
* USER INTERFACE
- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.
- Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).
- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).
- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
(bug 2714).
- Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656).
- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.
- The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or
citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug
2907).
- The screen label of index insets now displays their content.
- Floats comes now with fixed width on screen (bug 4002).
- A "Title (Plain Frame)" style has been added to the beamer layout.
This allows for setting a title frame without head-/footlines and
navigation bars (bug 3133).
- The AMS document classes have undergone a major rewrite. Several
bugs were fixed and some new styles were added (bugs 4087, 4223).
Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS for a detailed list of changes.
- New LyX functions, master-buffer-view and master-buffer-update, have
been added, to view the master buffer associated with a given child
buffer. These are bound by default to C-M-t and C-M-d, for Postscript
and DVI, respectively, for view, and to C-M-S-t and C-M-S-d, for update.
- The debug output obtained with the '-dbg painting' option has been
modified to be more verbose and in line with the LyX development
version.
** Bug fixes:
*************
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Reconfiguration failure will no longer result in empty textclass lists.
Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829).
- Check if the .lyx file has been externally modified when a buffer is saved.
- Fix conversion from older documents if koi8 is used as the document
encoding (bug 4158).
- Handle array column specifiers @{decl.}, p{width} and the extensions by
array.sty in mathed (bug 4132).
- Detect (pdf)tex's file:line:error style messages that are used by some
distributions and that caused LyX to ignore LaTeX errors (bug 4222).
- Fix LaTeX error with captions in Program Listings (bug 4182).
* USER INTERFACE:
- Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with document tabs (bug 4123).
- Fix a crash when clicking in a tabular cell and the "delete empty paragraph"
mechanism triggers (bug 4133).
- Fix a crash when using the LFUN 'buffer-write-as' with an argument
that is not an absolute path (bug 4135).
- Fix a crash when a user removes the underlying figure of a graphic inset
that has been copied and pasted (bug 4108).
- Fix a crash when inserting a float.
- Fix a crash on quitting if graphics were selected (bug 4178).
- Fix a crash when a user removes a formula when its preview is being
generated (gcc 3 only).
- Fix a crash when using the down arrow in an empty math subscript (bug 4117).
- Fix a crash when logging out from within the Gnome desktop (bug 1656).
- Fix a crash when exporting a file with graphics to LaTeX on Windows
(bug 4243).
- Fix a crash when a counter was ill-defined in a layout file (bug 4232).
- Fix a crash with View>PDF on the Mac. This occurred only when LyX was
compiled with gcc's stdlib-debug option (bug 4014).
- Fix performance problem related to Clipboard and Selection on X11
platforms (bug 4045).
- Only update the toolbars that are actually visible. This improves LyX's
performance on editing.
- Further improve performance on editing by reducing the update calls of the
math panel toolbar to the bare essentials.
- Fix the loading of non-LyX child documents with relative path names. Change
'Load' to 'Edit' in the child document dialog (bugs 4107 and 4111).
- Allow roman numerals beyond 20 (bug 4112).
- Render malformed tables correctly (bug 580).
- Enable File>Revert when the file is externally modified, and rename
this menu item to "File>Revert to saved" (bugs 3766 and 4114).
- Update the screen when leaving a 'wide' inset using the up- and down-arrows.
- Fix a problem where the Delete button in the citation dialog was erroneously
disabled (bug 4121).
- Reset the current cursor font when going to a bookmark.
- Fix an icorrect handling of spaces in change tracking mode (bug 3961).
- Fix a failure to close the window when a modified document is saved
(bug 4170).
- Highlight search text in the find dialog (bug 3999).
- Fix the deletion of paragraphs with leading spaces (bug 3600).
- Fix the loss of start-of-appendix information when creating/deleting an
empty paragraph (bug 4212).
- "Revert" and "Save As" are no longer treated as external modifications
of the document (bug 4193).
- Fix a bug where the "longest label" widget in the paragraph dialog was
disabled after its content was deleted (bug 4127).
- Fix a bug where the cursor was largely off-screen on document opening
(bug 3427).
- Fix a bug where fixed width insets were not honoured correctly (bug 4029).
- Fix a bug where the current document was closed unexpectedly when
typing a space after switching between 2 documents with the file->Open
dialog (bug 4211).
- Fix bug in box dialog where the inner box was empty when switching
the box decoration (bug 4233).
* DOCUMENTATION
- Fix installation links for Hebrew (bug 4165).
- Correct the description of list of algorithms in the Embedded Objects manual.
- Fix the appearance of the word "LyX" in PDF-bookmarks in the
Introduction manual (bug 2435).
- removed description of the program "reLyX" that was replaced in LyX 1.4 by
"tex2lyx" (bug 2766)
* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
- Upgrade to boost 1.34.1.
- Upgrade to gettext 0.14.6.
- On all supported platforms, allow Qt 4.2 or higher to use the math fonts in
<sysdir>/fonts without the need to install them.
- Make configure.py remove a log file generated by MikTeX and copy the file
chkconfig.ltx to the user dir using default permissions (thus avoiding a
bug on Cygwin where python doesn't copy ACLs associated with a file).
- Clarify an error message for --without-included-boost.
- Better alignment of the version info output.
- Remove the /TP (force to use C++ compiler) option from scons/msvc.
- Allow the use of a snapshot version of scons.
- Fix usage display for lib/doc_toc.py (bug 3798).
What's new in version 1.5.1?
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