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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.5.3
All comments are welcome.

I'd be glad if some of you could take the time to check it out (or fix
a bug or two if you are feeling adventurous). Let me recall that all
these fixes have been checked into the BRANCH_1_5_X branch, which you
can get with the command
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X lyx-1.5.x

Juergen

[In this list, I try to group things by topic and in decreasing
order of importance. This is, of course, subjective...]

What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Update Japanese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the
  user interface.

- Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx".


* USER INTERFACE

- The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either
  keep current paragraph and depth or to 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
  typesetted without switching to the proper language.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line
  (bug 4255).

- Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained
  URLs (bug 2265).

- Add Erlang support for listings (bug 4263).

- Fix LaTeX output when using layouts like Definition but not using
  also Theorem (bug 4282).


* USER INTERFACE:

- Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable.

- Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows (bug 3172).

- Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326).

- Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330).

- Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in
  the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268).

- Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829).

- Do not display the label of charstyle insets by default. Display type of
  a charstyle inset under mouse in the status line.

- Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only).

- Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files
  (bug 4287).

- Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter).

- Fix a bug when adding a math formula column.

- Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog
  (bug 4277).

- Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308).

- Really highlight search text (bug 3999).

- Fix bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last of
  several misspelt words (bug 3586).


* DOCUMENTATION

- Fix wrong 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". The file has been
  obsoleted by the EmbeddedObjects documentation.


* 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).