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Public release of LyX version 2.0.2
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.2. This is the second
maintenance release in the 2.0.x series.

LyX 2.0.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all
LyX users to upgrade to this version.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based 
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.

You can download LyX 2.0.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.

If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.2, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org), or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX 
users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.0.2.

The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org


What's new in LyX 2.0.2
=======================

There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We 
hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.

There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
below for the details.

The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
by LyX.

Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with 
LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable 
with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.


What's new
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** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Completely revised support for the latest versions of the Springer
  document classes svjour3, svmono and svmult.

- Add possibility to export the R code from a sweave-enabled document
  (part of bug 7555).

- XHTML export now respects font color and background color from 
  Document->Settings->Colors.

- Added support for ctex document classes (bug 7495).


** TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS

- tex2lyx (that is used to import TeX files) now produces the current
  file format 413.

- tex2lyx now supports the conversion of:

  * The font packages utopia, fourier, ccfonts, chancery and beraserif.

  * Documents where no language package is set, or if a language package
    are set that work independently of babel and polyglossia.

  * The setting of the document-wide background color and text color
    (\color, \pagecolor), the background color of shaded boxes and the
    text color of greyed-out notes.

  * Horizontal lines (\rule).

  * Phantom spaces (\phantom, \hphanton, \vphantom).

  * Custom width for nomenclature list (\printnomenclature).

  * All types of underlined or striked out text.

  * Hyperlinks (\href).

  * Rotated floats (sidewaysfigure, sidewaystable).

  * Wrapped floats (wrapfigure, wraptable) (bug 4378).

  * Subfloats (\subfloat).

  * Frameless boxes (\makebox). (\mbox is not yet supported by LyX.)

  * Command \date{} in the preamble to suppress the date output.

- Augmented the tex2lyx --help message with the default paths (bug 6827).


* USER INTERFACE

- New menu entry Edit->Select Whole Inset.

- Speed up cursor movement when inline completion is enabled in math.

- Make InsetInfo output a path matching the LaTeX compiler.

- Improve creation of a LyX archive. Now also the files referenced in ERT
  in the document body (e.g., through \input or \insertgraphics) are
  included in the archive.

- When changing the document language, also change the language of the
  text which is not explicitly marked in a different language,
  irrespective of the multilingual status, except for LTR<=>RTL changes.

- New command-line switch -v (--version) for tex2lyx showing build
  information and version number (bug 6827).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The LyX documentation covers now all new features of LyX 2.0.x; the
  User's guide, EmbeddedObjects and the Math manual have been revised
  accordingly.

- Updated French, German, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese,
  Norwegian (Bokmål), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian user
  interface localization.

- Revised template files for the Springer document classes.

- Revised example file sweave.lyx.

- New appendix in the EmbeddedObjects manual with list of available
  colors and new section about the calculation of table widths.

- New example file spreadsheet.lyx.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Add background image for Mac OS X disk image.



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

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix execution of biber with MiKTeX.

- Fix parsing of branch names containing spaces.

- Fix output of multirow table cell borders (bug 7578).

- Fix ASCII export for branch inset (bug 7720).

- Fix regression where parent macros were not displayed in a viewed child
  (bug 7593).

- Fix regression where children included more than once are only rendered
  once (bug 7594).

- Fix problem where updates to children were not seen on output of master
  (bug 7360).

- Fix XHTML export of branches (bug 7721).

- Fix whitespace issues with language changes (bug 7607).

- Fix deletion of temporary file used for preferences conversion on
  Windows (bug 7796).

- Fix handling of relative paths used in the preamble or ERT (bug 7835).

- Disable impossible settings in context menu of boxes (bug 7849).

- Store the autosave files of unnamed buffers in the correct directory
  and make sure they are not left behind after saving (bug 7793).

- Escape ampersands in <title> when outputting XHTML.

- Fix export of spreadsheets (bug 7897).


* TEX2LYX

- Fix tex2lyx handling of recognized Roman fonts (bug 7856).

- Fix tex2lyx handling babel-specific preamble commands (bug 7861).

- Fix tex2lyx handling of inputenc encoding settings (bug 7863).

- Fix tex2lyx handling of framed boxes without inner box.

- Fix tex2lyx handling of description \item with spaces (bug 7663).

- tex2lyx does not start floats with lines containing only a single space
  anymore (bug 7895).

- Fix (La)TeX import for files using Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian,
  Turkmen and/or Vietnamese (bug 7862).

- Fix (La)TeX import of shaded boxes (bug 7843).

- Fix LaTeX import of theorem environment with optional argument (bug 6834).

- Fix LaTeX import of tabular environment with optional argument.

- Fix latex export of multilingual documents containing theorem-like
  environments (bug 7800).

- tex2lyx does not produce invalid Flex insets anymore (bug 7780).

- Fix import of required arguments of standard environments (part of bug
  7468).


* USER INTERFACE

- Correctly group Koma book environments inside environment combo-box listing.

- Add undo for change of text language when document language is changed.
  When a document is not multi-lingual, the text contents is changed to the
  new language. This should be recorded for Undo (bug 7740).

- Adjust the cursor language after document language change has changed the
  text language (bug 7681).

- Correctly sort modules in Document->Settings and formats in the "Other 
  formats" dialog (bug 7751).

- Repair outliner display for broken references (bug 7708).

- Fix Horizontal Space dialog when issued from within math (bug 7746).

- Fix bottom border allocation when setting a multirow (bug 7791).

- Fix merging of cells (multicolumn, multirow) when the first cell in the
  selection is already a multi-cell (bug 7792).

- Disable interword and protected space lfuns in math, since these spaces
  are not yet supported.

- Mark buffer dirty when a label is changed, so the file can be saved and
  the change can be reverted (bug 7655).

- Fix shortcuts in cross reference dialog (bug 7576).

- Fixed recursive repaint problem (see bugs 7503 and 7173).

- Restore nomenclature dialog's ability to take the symbol from an explicit
  or implicit selection.

- Fix on-screen display of graphics when the name of the temporary directory
  contains non-ASCII characters (bug 7621).

- Fix the tab ordering of widgets in the Document->Settings and
  Tools->Preferences panels.

- Mark settings as changed when the Nomenclature line is edited in the
  Tools->Preferences panel.

- Fix instant preview when external files are loaded in the preamble,
  e.g. through the \input LaTeX command.

- Fix instant preview when using Python version 2.4 or lower.

- Don't allow copy-pasting newline characters in Document->Settings
  and Tools->Preferences (bug 5840).

- Allow the \nocite LaTeX command when using the basic citation engine.

- Do not incorrectly activate Edit->Table inside index entries (bug 7816).

- Fix display of section (etc.) headings, in both TOC and menu, when there is 
  math in the title.

- Correct handling of custom width in the nomenclature dialog (bug 7853).

- Improved scrolling in large tables with vertical alignment (bug 7662).

- Make cursor position after paste independent of where the pasted material
  comes from (bug 3821).

- Fix display of thickness of horizontal lines (bug 7851).

- Fix change of language of selected text with context menu (bug 7778).

- Sort formats under Document>Settings>Output (bug 7758).

- Fix crash when changing labelwidth (bug 7873).

- Keep cursor inside index inset when a blank one is created (bug 7905).


* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE

- Fix a crash when searching in all manuals, but the manuals could
  not be loaded.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix compile error with gcc 4.5.3 when using the included mythes library.

- Fix the detection of the tex2lyx converter (bug 3308).

- Fix the detection of htmltolatex (bug 6339).

- Fix the detection of splitindex (bug 7579).

- Fix the detection of jfig3-itext, jfig3.

- Properly associate the gnumeric converter with the Excel and OpenOffice
  spreadsheet formats.