lyx_mirror/ANNOUNCE

Public release of LyX version 1.3.2
===================================

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.2.

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
three main areas:
  * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs 
    have been squashed;
  * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
  * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of 
    the user interface.

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message. There have been bug fixes to the xforms frontend also,
but most of these have been made to xforms itself. To benefit you must
recompile LyX against xforms 1.0.2 or greater which is currently
available only from CVS on the new xforms development site
http://www.nongnu.org/xforms/. Note that that is _compile_ aginst the
new xforms, not _link_ against a new version of the library, as the
work-arounds will otherwise still be in place. Note also that
development of xforms is currently accelerating. We hope to have an
official xforms release soon that will cure many of the small 
annoyances from which LyX currently suffers.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server.

You can download LyX 1.3.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.2.tar.bz2

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with
the .bz2 versions):

        ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.2/
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.1 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.2.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.2.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.2, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==========

** Updates

- The spell-checking system has been over-hauled, including the following
  changes :

  o start spell-checking immediately on pressing F7
  o xforms' broken start/stop button removed
  o better spell progress feedback
  o long hang on ispell error changed
  o infinite hang on ispell error fixed
  o reports ispell errors back to the user
  o the personal dictionaries are always correctly written out
  o "Accept" button became "Ignore All" for clarity

- add support for the hspell spell-checker for hebrew [Qt only]

- add support for scalable tabfolders and for 'native' tooltips
  in browser widgets. You must recompile against xforms 1.0.2 or greater
  to enable these new features [xforms only]

- update dutch, finnish, german, polish [bug #1002], romanian, russian
  and spanish interface localisation. Add support for nynorsk. Fix
  Help>Table of Contents.

** Bug fixes

- attempting to navigate to deleted text via the TOC dialog no longer
  crash [bug #913]

- fix a new crash in 1.3.1 on OK in External dialog [Qt only]

- fix mismatch between section depth and TOC depth in Document dialog
  [Qt only]

- fix float placement text not being updated in Document dialog [Qt only]

- fix duplicate keyboard accelerator in the paragraph dialog [Qt only]

- in the include dialog, make "show preview" activate the OK button
  [Qt only]

- fix display of bullet pixmaps in document dialog [bug #908, Qt 3.1.1 only]

- fix loading of included files that are under revision control

- the Home/End keys no longer mark the document as "(changed)"

- the window title no longer wrongly marks document paths as coming from ~/
  [bug #993]

- fix reading of subcaptions (in graphics inset) that contain explicit
  double quote characters [bug #656]

- fix reading of subcaptions in files from LyX 1.1.6 or older

- add a converter from grace (.agr) files to PPM, in order to display
  them in xforms frontend

- fix support for \framebox macro in mathed: the argument is handled
  as text, and a second optional argument is now supported

- text-mode parts of math equations are now drawn in foreground color
  instead of being hardcoded to black

- add support for macro \bmod in mathed

- add macro \Pr in the list of selectable functions of the math panel

- fix document class for mwbk textclass

- fix a couple of layouts in llncs [bug #1068]

- fix building of xforms dialogs' source on SMP machines [Bug #944,
  xforms only]

- fix bug in generation of the RPM spec file for the Qt frontend

- make automatic generation of autoscripts optional; this was annoying
  for patches.

- fix building on cygwin

- fix building on NetBSD [bug #1007]