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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.4.4
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_4_X branch, which you
can get with the command
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X lyx-1.4.x

JMarc

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

What's new
==========

** Updates:

- Outline support.

- Improve Computer Algebra System support.

- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.

- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer presentation
  class. These files where taken from the beamer package by Till Tantau.

- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845)

- Add a latex -> rtf converter

- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).

- New text class ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing).

- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).

- New Galician localization; update Romanian and German localization of the
  interface.

- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro);
  Update Hebrew (Intro) and Italian (UserGuide) documentation.

- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
  layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
  extra toolbar.

** Bug fixes:

* Document Input/Output

- Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
  they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
  Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.

- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
  and alignedat.

- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.

- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.

- Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug 2744).

- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.

- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read 
  again.

- Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
  with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
  very difficult to do it right.

* User Interface:

- Fix a crash that occured on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
  windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
  1.4.3.

- Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
  with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets
  (bugs 2587 and 2882)

- fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
  2877)

- when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
  that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720)

- Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).

- Make clicking in a "Wide" inset always enter that inset.

- Give a better error message for missing layout include files

- Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910)

- Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
  french keyboard too.

- Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.

- Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789)

- Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939)

- Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982)

* Build/installation:


* Miscellaneous

- The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.

- Fix Free Software Foundation address.