lyx_mirror/status.15x

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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.5.3
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
==========


** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Updated Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian,
  Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user interface.

- New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx".

- New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual.

- Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide.

- Revised Tutorial


* USER INTERFACE

- The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has
  seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing
  within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon
  as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of
  Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in
  performance thanks to this change.

- The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance
  can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease
  on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the
  cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on
  (Mac and Windows only).

- The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either
  keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445).

- Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a
  consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs.

- The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils
  and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate
  to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78).

- It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them
  typeset without switching to the proper language.

- Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263).

- The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished:
  they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is
  not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by
  "View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse
  button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset
  is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it.

- Inset-dissolve now works in mathed.

- Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section
  in the math toolbar.


* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- tex2lyx:
 - import the LaTeX-command \newline
 - import framed and shaded notes
 - support for multi-language LaTeX-files
 - import of font settings

- xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers).


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

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line
  (bug 4255).

- Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that
  contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333).

- Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an
  exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385).

- Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but
  not using also Theorem (bug 4282).

- Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained
  URLs (bug 2265).

- If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the
  system one.

- tex2lyx support for the LaTeX-commands \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage,
  and \inputencoding (bug 27).


* USER INTERFACE:

- Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301).

- Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable.

- Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318).

- Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its
  content is selected (bug 4323).

- Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334).

- Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs
  (bug 4317).

- Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330).

- Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335).

- Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the
  appendix and it is empty (bug 4352).

- Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line
  tabular cell (bug 4368).

- Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via
  Insert->File->Plain Text...

- Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in
  the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268).

- Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and
  in the output (bug 3172).

- Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337).

- Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files
  (bug 4287).

- Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last
  of several misspelled words (bug 3586).

- Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second
  run (bug 2218).

- If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it
  was not aligned correctly. This is fixed.

- Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147).

- Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371).

- Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text...

- Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326).

- Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330).

- Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308).

- Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter).

- Fix a bug when adding a math formula column.

- Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829).

- Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only).

- Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user
  interface.

- Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog
  (bug 4277).

- Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090).

- Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999).

- Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified
  (bug 4266).

- Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359).

- Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters.

- Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344).

- Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu 
  (bug 3888).

- Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog.

- Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset.

- Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view.

- Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345).


* DOCUMENTATION

- Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations).

- Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation 
  "Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion
  of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0.

- Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French
  version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the
  EmbeddedObjects documentation.

- Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial
  (bug 4328).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION:

- Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons.

- Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are
  taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only).

- Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by
  "make clean".

- Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1.