-*- text -*-

This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.6.7
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_6_X branch, which you
can get with the command
  svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_6_X lyx-1.6.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
==========


** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Introduced new -f [--force-overwrite] command line flag. Without any
  argument (or 'all' as argument) all files are silently overwritten on
  export from command line. Using 'main' as argument, only the main file
  will be overwritten.

- Introduced new preference setting for selecting what to do when existing
  files are going to be overwritten on export from the GUI.


* USER INTERFACE

- Layout and template file for document class article(IEEEtran) has been
  updated for IEEEtran 1.7a.

- Do not unnecessarily truncate the text of notes, footnotes and marginals
  (bug 6672, part 1).

- Tooltips are added to the outliner (bug 6672, part 2).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated German, Italian, Czech and Slovak user interace localizations.

- Updated LaTeX configuration overview.


* WINDOWS INSTALLER



* BUILD/INSTALLATION



** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix reverse search when the document name contains a character
  which is forbidden in LaTeX filenames (such as spaces).

- Improve reverse search for documents containing index insets
  (bug 6649).

- Honour physical paper size settings on output (bug 5247).

- Fix compilation error in documents containing text parts in Arabic
  and Farsi (bug 6714).

- Output references to section numbers in the correct direction in
  documents with right-to-left-languages (bug 6711).

- Safer creation of backup files on ext4 (part of bug 6587).

- Simplify definition of \greektext (bug 6456 and 6458).

- Don't overwrite child .tex documents on latex export (bug 2434).

- Don't allow creating multiple buffers with same name (bug 6645).

- Don't automatically overwrite files on export from command line,
  unless the newly introduced -f flag is used (bug 2762).

- Allow to overwrite files without dialog popup on export from GUI
  (bug 2844).

- Fix assertion when using an empty user macro taking an argument as
  the base of script inset (bug 6739).


* USER INTERFACE

- Correctly restore a dissolved macro inset on undo (bug 6678).

- Correctly handle empty custom line spacing in settings (bug 6649).

- Correctly display color changes in math formulas (bug 4071).

- Make sure that the '|'-character in headings does not confuse the
  TOC list in navigate menu (bug 2009).

- Do not report the word count by the spellchecker twice (bug 6254).

- Fix the display of the "Address" environment in LyX when using the
  elsart.layout (bug 3930). (Note: elsart.layout is obsolete, please
  use elsarticle.layout instead).

- Clear an existing selection when using "Navigate Back" (bug 6686).

- Correctly paint the button for external material when the "Preview"
  attribute is not defined (bug 6677).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION



* BUILD/INSTALLATION