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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.5.5
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:
***********

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Spanish translation of the math manual.

- French translation of the documentation file "Formula-numbering.lyx".

- Updated Romanian translation of the user interface.

- Updated German User's Guide and Extended manual.

- Updated French User's Guide.


* USER INTERFACE


* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Add support for the HTML-to-LaTeX converters gnuhtml2latex and
  htmltolatex (bug 4615).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION:

- New configure option --enable-build-type allows to set all
  compilation options for release, prerelease or development builds.
  Please see the INSTALL file for more details.


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

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix drawing of top and bottom rules in formal tables (bug 4554).

- Fix reversion of OHM and ANGSTROM characters to LyX < 1.5.0 (rest of
  bug 3313).

- Check for the LaTeX packages "nicefrac" and "units" that are used by
  LyX.

- Check for PDF->PS, PDF->EPS and PS->EPS converters and use them (bug
  3968).

- Stop warning messages when a local layout file is opened. Fix bugs
  caused by incorrect reloading of local layout files.

- Use verbose htlatex command instead of oolatex, if available, since the
  latter caused problems on some systems (bug 4604).

- Assure amsthm is loaded if a theorem is defined with \theoremstyle.

- Close font macros (such as \emph) before comments, greyedout, framed
  and shaded notes, thus fixing a problem where documents couldn't be
  compiled anymore.

- Fix LaTeX error "unknown color 'ignore'" when setting text style
  attributes in mathed (bug 4091).

- Use package bm for bold math symbols obtained through the \boldsymbol
  macro, such that bold super and subscripts have the correct size even
  when not using amsmath.

- Fix loading of lyx documents generated with csv2lyx (bug 4639).

- Move \label{} outside of listings option caption={} because the listings
  package prefers a separate label={} option.

* USER INTERFACE:

- Correctly apply font changes when several math matrix cells are selected
  (part of bug 4566).

- Allow deleting a label in a formula as well as the numbering with the
  delete key (bug 2556).

- Allow to enter starred math commands such as \tag* (bug 4584).

- Load amsmath when \tag or \tag* is used (bug 4586).

- Fix parameter input of the math commands \makebox and \framebox (bug
  2461).

- When cutting a selection do not leave a dangling paragraph (bug 3995).

- Improve the behaviour when inserting a collapsable inset over a multi-
  paragraph selection.

- Fix the automatic uncollapsing of outliner during updates (bug 3740).

- Remove the menu entries to swap rows/columns as this feature is not
  implemented.

- Fix wrong focusing of buttons in search dialog (bug 4194).

- Disallow some Note variants in places where they would result in LaTeX
  errors (part of bug 4180).


* DOCUMENTATION

- Math manual:
  - correct shortcuts for math fonts in section 11.1
  - fix the description of the command \tag in section 19.4


* BUILD/INSTALLATION:

- fix the 'make check' target in src/support; one of the checks still 
  fails (bug 4638)

- fix the problems with compilation on gcc 4.3.0 with disabled internal 
  boost library and pch headers.