Tweaks

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@5985 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-01-26  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
+
+	* README, NEWS, INSTALL: tighten up the English and make them a bit
+	more self-consistent. Remove a couple of references to bogus ftp
+	repositories.
+
 2003-01-18  Lars Gullik Bjønnes  <larsbj@gullik.net>
 
 	* Makefile.am: move some doxy stuff from here...

INSTALL

@@ -46,52 +46,49 @@ Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
 to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
 version.
 
+* xforms frontend
+
 Both an Xforms and Xpm libraries should be installed to compile LyX.
 It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
 libraries, and their associated header files.
 
-As of LyX version 1.2.0, you will need to have Xforms library and
+The xforms library has been very recently updated to version 1.0. 
-header version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.89.6 is the one which works
+This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser General Public 
-best, but the old stable 0.88.1 version is still supported. On some
+License), and the availability of the source means that many bugs that 
-systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared library versions of the
+have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You are advised to 
-Xforms library, which require an installation step to configure the
+upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
-system.
+In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
-
-Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
-available.  If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
-developers to request a version for your system.  You can get it from
 
+You can get the source from
 	http://world.std.com/~xforms/
-    ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/
+	ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/OpenSource/xforms-1.0-release.tgz
-    ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/
+	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/OpenSource/xforms-1.0-release.tgz
-    ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
-    ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
 
 If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or Mandrake,
 we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
 	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib 
-as the rpm packages commonly found are compiled against glibc 2.0
+Look for the xforms-1.0-release.src.rpm or the binary libforms*.i386.rpm.
-instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes.
 
 In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
 
-Note that the Qt and Gnome frontends are still under development, and
+* Qt frontend
-as a result are only useful if you want to help out with testing and
+
-development.
+LyX has been tested with both Qt 2.x and 3.0.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.
+
 
 If you make modifications to files in src/ (for example by applying a
 patch), you will need to have the GNU gettext package installed, due
-to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can find the latest version
+to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can get the latest version
 from:
-
 	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.11.4.tar.gz
 
 LyX contains a hack to work around this, but you should not rely too
 much on it.
 
 To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
-from :
+from:
-
     http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ 
  
 Finally, the two following programs should be available at

NEWS

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 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
-the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
+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.
@@ -23,16 +23,15 @@ displayed properly.
 
 The avent 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, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
+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. As
+are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. 
-a matter of fact, LyX 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of
+In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
-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. 
@@ -53,28 +52,28 @@ 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, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
+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 for making sure the
+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 (when enabled) when you're not editing 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 few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
+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 by showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
+a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
-formula itself and by revealing the names of the nesting levels 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 is also the internal
+package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
-structure of font changes which are now proper "insets" as anything
+structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like 
-else from a square root to an array. This does not only simplify the
+anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
-code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
+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
-implementing support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox and general
+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:
 
@@ -89,13 +88,13 @@ trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
 
 ** Reading old files
 
-LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which allows to read any old file
+LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
-produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. 0.10 series is in the works
+produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files 
-for 0.10 (1.4 time line) and still older files are in the forge.
+created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are 
-Basically if lyx wrote it lyx will read it. :-)
+in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
 
-There is also a strong demand for being able to read files produced by
+There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
-_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has an infrastructure in place
+_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.
 
@@ -105,12 +104,12 @@ to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
   equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
   configure your font server).
 
-- The Insert>Short Title allows to add an optional text for section
+- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text 
-  headings and captions that is designed to be used in table of
+  for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in 
-  contents.
+  tables of contents.
 
-- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the capability
+- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability 
-  of wrapping a text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
+  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

README

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ Preamble: LyX version scheme
 	In September of 1999 the LyX Team decided that we could no
 	longer successfully use the two strand development process
 	like the Linux kernel. The idea was to to switch to a
-	development model similar to that used by Fetchmail where only
+	development model similar to that used by Fetchmail where 
-	we would will only make small stable changes between releases
+	we would make only small stable changes between releases
 	and release more often.  This lead to the 1.1.x series of LyX
-	releases where the inhards of the program have been rewritten 
+	releases during which the inhards of the program were rewritten 
 	to make use of the C++ Standard Library features, establish
 	the foundations of GUI/system independence, and generally
 	clean up the data structures used in the core of LyX.
@@ -19,18 +19,18 @@ Preamble: LyX version scheme
 	feature/modification has proved stable it will be merged into
 	the main releases.
 
-	LyX still uses a continuous numbering scheme where odd or
+	LyX still uses a continuous numbering scheme in which odd or
-	even numbering is not significant. Prereleases are
+	even numbering is not significant. Instead a number '1.x.y'
-	labeled with a "pre" suffix and any fixes required between
+	indicates stable release '1.x', fix level 'y'. Prereleases 
-	stable releases have a "fix" suffix. Thus there are three
+	are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
-	possible file names:
+	file names:
 
 	   lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz       -- stable release
 	   lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz       -- second maintenance release of the
 	                             1.2.0 stable release 
 	   lyx-1.2.0pre1.tar.gz   -- potentially unstable test release
 
-	The maintenance releases are designed mainly to fix bugs. The
+	The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
 	goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
 	kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather to
 	include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ What is LyX not?
 What do I need to run LyX?
 
 	A Unix-like system or Windows with cygwin, OS/2 with XFree
-	At least X11 Release 5
+	At least X11 Release 5.
 	A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX or NTeX) not older
-	   than 1995/12/01
+	   than 1995/12/01.
-	Perl5.002 or later to import LaTeX files into LyX
+	Perl5.002 or later to import LaTeX files into LyX.
 
 What's new?
 
@@ -96,12 +96,16 @@ How do I upgrade from an earlier LyX version?
 
 What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
 
-	1. A good c++ compiler.  Development is being done mainly on
+	* A good c++ compiler.  Development is being done mainly on
-	   gcc/g++, but some others work. As of LyX 1.2.0, you need at
+	  gcc/g++, but some others work. As of LyX 1.3.0, you need at
 	  least gcc 2.95.X (or egcs 1.1.x). Another compiler known to
 	  work is compaq cxx 6.1.
-	2. The Xforms library version 0.89.6 (recommended) or 0.88.1.
+	Either:
-	3. LibXpm version 4.7 (or newer).
+	* The Xforms library, version 0.89.5 or newer. We recommend
+	  the LGPL version 1.0.
+	* LibXpm, version 4.7 or newer.
+	Or:
+	* The Qt library, version 2.x or 3.0.x.
 
 	Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.