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* README: * RELEASE-NOTES: - preparation for 1.5.3 git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X@21485 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
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Public release of LyX version 1.5.3
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.3. This is a maintenance
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release that further improves the stability and the performance. Besides
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a number of crashes, the display problems that slipped into 1.5.2 with
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the performance fixes (on the Mac and on Windows) as well as problems
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entailed to the reworked document classes were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3
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comes with speed improvements that should pay off especially on the Mac and
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other UNIXes. Finally, this version also provides some new features.
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A detailed list of changes is appended below.
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All users, especially the Mac and Windows users, are encouraged to upgrade
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to this version.
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The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some remaining known problems.
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In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
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http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
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based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
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is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
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LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
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right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
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details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
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page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
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legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
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On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
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or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
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like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
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all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
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different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
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'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.
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LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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You can download LyX 1.5.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
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which yields smaller files):
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.3.tar.bz2
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and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
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also host the .bz2 versions):
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz
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Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
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installers) should soon be available at
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.3/
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If you already have the LyX 1.5.2 sources, you may want to apply one
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of the following patches instead
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.3.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.3.bz2
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Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
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some binary files have been added for this release.
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.3, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org),
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or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
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If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
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question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
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the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org).
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Enjoy!
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The LyX team.
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What's new in version 1.5.3?
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