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Public release of LyX version 2.1.4
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We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.4.  This is the fourth
maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.

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 2.1.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.

LyX 2.1.3 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. Many of these were minor, but there were a 
few crashes we fixed, too. We strongly encourage all LyX users to upgrade 
to this version.

If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.4, please open a bug report at
http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel 
<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.

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 2.1.4.

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



What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- New support for PDF forms.

- New method to view PDF files if Acrobat Reader is used as PDF viewer:
  Clicking the view button will also update the PDF view.
  (Windows-only, bug 9512).

- Add low-resolution PDF export format (needs an installed ghostscript).

- Add possibility via the layout file to prevent LyX from loading inputenc.

- Add Sweave and knitr importers (bug 8734).

- Correctly save files created from the command line (bug 9544).


* USER INTERFACE

- The icons for Standard, Itemize and Enumerate layouts are now
  toggled properly (bug 9463).

- support for the math commands  \lvert, \rvert, \lVert, and \rVert (bug 3538).

- Fix some missing symbols in math completer.

- Fix the profile script used on cygwin to comply with the latest cygwin/X
  X server which, by default, does not anymore listen to tcp connections.

- Add a "Do not show again" checkbox to the warning that is issued when the
  LaTeX class/packages are missing for a given layout (bug 9420).

- Fix display of limits for some math operators provided by stmaryrd.sty
  (bug 9458).

- Allow using icon names other than lfun's as argument for "info-insert icon".

- Add icons for the "Fonts" math panel.

- Split different indices in the outliner (bug 7012).

- Clarify the function of Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Save Documents
  Compressed by Default (bug 7822).

- Update instant previews when modifying the screen zoom factor (bug 8258).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New example file "PDF-form.lyx" describing the new support for PDF forms.

- New Brazilian Portuguese translation of the LyX user interface localization.

- New French and German translation of the MultilingualCaptions example file.

- New French translation of the PDF-comment example file.

- New German translation of the FeynmanDiagrams example file.

- Updated Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Slovak and Swedish 
  user interface localization.


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Allow automake 1.15.

- Use symlinks for duplicated dictionaries and thesauri when creating the
  package on Mac OS X.


** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Update path of included files when saving a document to a different
  location (bugs 9528, 5115).

- Fix LaTeX errors caused by too late loading of fixltx2e package
  (bugs 9452, 9361).

- Fix loading order of amsmath and amsthm, thereby prevent a LaTeX
  error (bug 7233).

- Do not output \protect unnecessarily before \caption (bug 9177).

- Do not output \protect unnecessarily in subfigure contents (bug 9421).

- Do \protect phantoms in fragile environments (such as captions)
  (bug 9456).

- Fix LaTeX error with font sizes in caption (bug 9470).

- Fix wrong listings preamble encoding (bug 9382).

- Fix reversion of beamer description overlay arguments.

- Fix loading of bicaption package (bug 9449).

- Use local babel language switch in fixed width cells in order to prevent
  unwanted whitespace (bug 9455).

- Mark the \lightning symbol as textmode such that it can be inserted in
  a text mode environment without being enclosed in \ensuremath by LyX.

- Take into account compressed documents when creating a LyX archive.

- Fix test for urwclassico font (bug 9576).

- Fix issues with instant preview and math macros (bugs 6369 and 9354).

- Fix instant preview for the Math manual (bug 9508).

- Fix instant preview when a preview snippet produces errors (bug 9510).

- Fix instant preview of included documents in child documents (bug 9583).

- Do not add paragraph break on environments with font change if the
  environments only have one paragraph (bug 9598).

- Make sure to generate a preview for global macros when they appear
  in a document containing only a single math inset.

- Use the correct font size in previews also with document classes using
  a special syntax for setting the size of fonts (such as powerdot).


* LYX2LYX

- Fix conversion of frame ends when frame is nested in inset (bug 9409).

- Fix conversion of beamer block arguments where the overlay argument and the
  closing title argument bracket share the same ERT (bug 9411).

- Fix conversion of beamer colloraries with argument (bug 9478).

- Fix handling of the TEXINPUTS environment variable on Windows (bug 9453).

- Make lyx2lyx more robust, add the initial comment line that says what is the
  lyx version that created the document if none is present (bug 9279).


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix crash when closing LyX on MacOS X (bug 8637).

- Fix crash with undo/redo (bug 9432).

- Undo all changes in one operation after "replace all" in advanced
  search (bug 8658).

- Record undo properly when changing multiple paragraphs parameters
  (bug 9437).

- Fix cursor font after undoing a font-changing command (bug 9537).

- Reset cursor font when entring an inset with char-forward/backward
  (bug 9597).

- Fix crash when attempting to restore a document with multiple views on the
  Mac (bug 9483).

- Fix insertion of spaces in macro definitions (bug 9432).

- Fix crash when copying macros with arguments (bug 9418).

- Fix crash when copying macros with instant preview on.

- Fix bad cursor font in some cases after changing layout (bug 4294).

- Fix logic error in on-screen font shape (bug #3519).

- Fix name and hint of figure captions in documents using the class aastex.

- Fix output encoding information for non-TeX fonts XeTeX/LuaTeX on preview
  pane (bug 8919).

- Work around limitations of external image viewers on windows (bug 8892).

- Do not display unwanted curly brackets in multi-line formulas (happened if
  the first character in a row was a '[') (bug 8679).

- Fix keyboard navigation in the math matrix panel (bug 9392).

- Correctly inform if URW Garamond (ugm) font is not available (bug 9429).

- Do not offer unsupported macros like \biggg in autocompletion.

- Fix consecutive merging of tabular cells.

- Fix crash with missing optional or wrong arguments for
  * LFUN_SPELLING_ADD,
  * LFUN_SPELLING_IGNORE and
  * LFUN_SPELLING_REMOVE
  (bug 9477).

- Fix selection of Interlingua user interface (bug 9267).

- Delete empty paragaphs as needed when navigating the document using
  outline mode (bug 9479).

- Fix selection issue when cursor moves out of an inset (bug 2346).

- Pressing "End" no longer exits math inset under certain conditions 
  (bug 9289).

- Allow cursor to exit table when in selection mode (bug 9291).

- Fix selection at borders of insets (bug 9487).

- Remove conflicting accelerator to "Master's perspective" in the
  View Source pane (bug 9495).

- Update previews after find/replace (bug 7242).

- Fix button logic in box dialog (bug 9543).

- Fix default style of broadway layout.

- Fix button logic in table settings dialog (bug 9570).

- Fix wrong alignment of inline previews occurring in some cases (bug 7850).

- Fix math preview for LuaTeX or XeTeX default output mode (bug 9371).

- Fix shortcut conflicts (bug 9567).

- Fix crash when using a secondary keymap but no primary one (bug 9685).


* INTERNALS

- Fix parsing of Requires layout tag if it uses tabs instead of spaces
  (bug 9518).

- Don't repeatedly check for missing programs when reconfiguring.

- Backport of the fix for bug 9659 from master.


* TEX2LYX

- Write fixed encoding to LyX file if -fixedenc was given (bug 9178).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix a configuration error on Windows causing that TeX files were not scanned.

- Add "Keywords" to lyx.desktop file (bug 9414).

- Fix several compilation warnings (bug 9488).

- Fix build with gcc 5.1 using libstdc++ with C++11 ABI.

- Fix bash-ism in ./autogen.sh script.

- Update path_prefix in lyxrc.dist for Mac OS X.
  Add the MacTeX installation location and remove very old unusable items.