lyx_mirror/status.16x

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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.6.5
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_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

- Add support for Extended Greek characters (bug 4997).

- Support GraphicsMagic when ImageMagick is not found (bug 6056).

- New layout files for Inderscience journals (bug 6293).

- New layout files for the document classes tufte-book and tufte-handout.

- Add support for jmakeindex (Japanese version of makeindex).


* USER INTERFACE

- The LyX server is now available also on Windows. See Chapter 4 in the
  Additional Features manual for how to enable it.

- Paragraph ends can now be marked by a pilcrow character (bug 6129).

- Complete tooltips in Spellchecker preferences (bug 6185).

- A "Reload" menu item is added to the Graphics context menu to
  manually force a reload and conversion of the image (bug 6134).

- Handle LFUN_FONT_UNDERLINE in mathed too (bug 2045).

- Emergency file can be deleted after use (bug 2120).

- The size of previews (InstantPreview) can now be specified in the
  LyX preferences (bug 6176).

- Include new modules to do equation/figure/table numbering sectionwise.
  These modules are now used in the AMS classes instead of the previous
  preamble hardcoding (bug 6123).

- Close button on tabs is configurable now (bug 5977).

- New LFUN inset-select-all allows to select the whole contents of
  an inset (bug 5991).

- SVN support: synchronization for the whole directories (bug 6255).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New template file "svjour3.lyx" for article submissions
  to journals published by the Springer group.

- New Slovak translation of the Splash manual.

- Updated French manual how to write Braille with LyX.

- Updated Simplified Chinese, Czech, French, German, Indonesian, Italian,
  Slovak and Spanish User Interface localizations.

- Revised appendix A of the Math manual.

- Revised English LyX Tutorial.

- Updated LyX User's guide.


* WINDOWS INSTALLER



* BUILD/INSTALLATION




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

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Do an emergency save if LyX attempts to destroy a dirty document buffer.
  This is a last resort to try to avoid data loss.

- Fix a tex2lyx crash when importing a LaTeX file using an unknown encoding
  (bug 6142).
  
- Fix a crash when no external templates are defined (bug 3974).

- Add encoding "ansinew" as a synonym of "cp1252" for the benefit of 
  tex2lyx (bug 6142).

- Fix support for optional argument of \bibitem in tex2lyx (bug 6249).

- Fix (again!) reading of default modules by tex2lyx (part of bug 5702).

- Fix reading of caption texts, which got broken in 1.6.4 (bug 6276).

- Fix support for polytonic Greek with multiple diacritics (bug 5976).

- Assure the author name is encoded correctly in the LaTeX output of
  change tracking markup (bug 6225).

- Do not unnecessarily enquote brackets in the LaTeX output (bug 5988).

- Remove the last '\\' in the output of multiline equations. This caused
  labels to appear twice (bug 2969).
 
- Put "|" characters in index entries in ERT when converting old documents
  to LyX 1.6.x format, to assure the character is treated verbatim
  (bug 6179).

- Properly reset the stream encoding after an environment in order to
  match the required file encoding when exporting to LaTeX (bug 6216).

- Fixed layout file for the document class svjour3 (bug 6198).

- Add support for \specialsection in amsart layout; improve fonts for 
  headings.

- Added the separator style to the layout file for the document class
  elsarticle and adapted the elsarticle.lyx template file accordingly
  (bug 6189).

- Correctly distinguish warnings from errors when using teTeX with
  file:line:error style (bug 6258).

- When including a child document whose language is different from
  the master document language, restore the master language at the
  end of the child rather than the child language.

- Set the correct document language when importing TeX files.

- Set the correct style for the quotes when importing TeX files which
  use the new German spelling.

- Do not eat blanks at the beginning of inserted text in change tracking
  mode's PDF output (bug 6282).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix crash when finishing certain math macros such as \frac or font
  changing commands (bug 6110).

- Fix a crash when searching for a string that is found in a table,
  while the cursor is in math (bug 6112).
  
- Fix a crash when closing a window after a document was opened
  multiple times and each time a new window was opened (bug 6188).

- Fix a crash when navigating to a child's heading with the outliner after
  the child was reloaded (bug 6233).

- Fix a crash when navigating to a label in a child document (bug 6252).

- Fix a crash when trying to launch the settings dialog of an unknown
  external inset (bug 6259).

- Fix crash when copying a math inset containing a non-ascii character
  which is missing a LaTeX command representation in the unicodesymbols
  file (bug 6250).

- Fix a number of assertions when displaying error messages (bug 6205). 

- Fix bad allocation exception when displaying long tooltips (bug 6215).

- Fixed problem involving inability to turn off auto-save (bug 6227).

- Sort document classes case insensitively (bug 1492).

- Disable to insert floats into another float when this is not
  allowed (bug 6045).
  
- Disable the float positioning dialog for subfloats (bug 6125).

- Do not close the cross references dialog when selecting an item from the
  list (UNIX only; bug 6204).

- The menu item "Close Tab Group" is renamed to "Close Current View" to
  better relate this to the action "Split View ..." (bug 5067).

- Fix a bug that the keymap settings in the Preferences dialog could
  not be deleted (bug 6119).

- Fix a number of small issues regarding menu items and menu shortcuts
  (bug 6164).

- Fix a bug that it was possible to request the wrong context menu
  by moving the mouse during the right-click (bug 5796).

- Fix the painting of RTL text. All rows except the last one of a
  paragraph were painted slightly too far to the left (bug 3997).

- Fix the \kern primitive in mathed (bug 6246).

- When pressing <del> at the end of a math formula, do not remove
  label or numbering when selection is set (bug 6273).

- Fix Ctrl-Shift-Tab shortcut for tabs (bug 6194).

- When starting LyX, open each document in a new view when "Open documents
  in tabs" is unchecked (bug 4906).
 
- Fix the location of context menus requested by the menu key (bug 6108).

- Fix undo of removed script in mathed when both super- and subscript
  are present (bug 6264).

- Fix parsing of selection when used as argument of a math macro (bug 6270).

- Fix inset-[begin|end][-select] when the cursor is at the beginning or
  end of a paragraph.

- If a static EndLabelString is defined in a layout file it is now 
  correctly displayed on screen (bug 2972).

- Do not remember documents for next startup when closing a window 
  but not closing LyX.

- Fix the painting of the last character of a paragraph, e.g. 
  added/deleted paragraph breaks in change tracking.

- Do not swallow spaces after a LaTeX macro appearing in text mode
  inside mathed (bug 6284).

- Show the correct context menu for Insets nested in closed Insets
  that are opened by the navigate or search functionality (bug 6820).

- Fix the positioning of the cursor in some cases with mixed RTL
  and LTR text (bug 5061).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Fix the compilation of the example file powerdot-example.lyx with
  recent versions of the LaTeX package powerdot.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Clarify that we require automake 1.8 (this was already the case, but
  nobody noticed).

- The script ext_copy.py can now also copy files in subdirectories.
  (useful for external converters)