lyx_mirror/ANNOUNCE

Public release of LyX version 1.3.3
===================================

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.3.

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
four main areas:
  * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
  * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
  * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
  * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
    the user interface amd documentation.

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

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, OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin
   (this port requires an X server). It can also run natively on Mac
   OS X, thanks to the Qt/Mac library.

You can download LyX 1.3.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2

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

        ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.2 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patchws instead
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.3, 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

- add basic support for the memoir class

- add Proof layout to elsart class and get sections to be numbered

- make LyX compile almost out-of-the-box with Qt/Mac (see README.MacOSX)

- add a bit of documentation of the AGU journals support in the
  Extended manual; small tweaks to the english documentation; german
  documentation overhaul; french documentation and examples update

- completely new italian localization; french, german and slovenian
  localization updates

** Bug fixes

- fix possible crash when changing text class [bug #1050]

- fix language setting when switching textclass

- fix math bug where formulas containing for example a \prettyref
  would not be parsed correctly [bug #1126]

- speed up conversion of large old files on some systems

- fix bad conversion of tables from LyX 1.0 [bug #1045]

- convert old files (0.11 series) correctly, suppressing space
  between number and units [bug #763]

- fix docbook export with nested environments [bug #821]

- output newline and hfill correctly in docbook [bug #1148]

- when pressing delete or backspace over a selection, do not modify
  the clipboard [bug #1049]

- when inserting a float or a note over a selection, make sure that
  the insets and font changes in the selection are correctly kept
  (note however that doing this now modifies the clipboard)

- clean-up properly after completed graphics conversion processes.

- enable graphics conversion using the default convertDefault.sh converter
  when exporting, even if convertDefault.sh is not executable.

- work around a Qt 3.1.2 bug with the environment combo box [bug #1136]

- fix bug where browsing for files in graphics inset would always
  return an absolute path [bug #1028, Qt only]

- do not write in preference file the colors which are still at their
  default value [bug #1069, Qt only]

- fix loading of symbol fonts [Qt 3.2.0 only]

- fix loading of symbol fonts on solaris

- fix the math panel symbols [Qt 3.2.0 only]

- do not reset natbib style when adding a new entry to a citation [Qt
  only]

- allow insertion of width strings like "2.5in" into tabular dialog
  [Qt only]

- fix some cases where the View>TeX information dialog would get
  confused because the same file gets listed several times

- remove annoying message on console when LyX tries to make TeX fonts
  available to the X server

- it was not possible to view the french versions of the Extended and
  Customization manual.

- the lib/configure script now works correctly with zsh [bug #977]

- add missing c_str.sed file in the distribution

- hopefully really fix problems with patch requiring aclocal-1.6

- fix compilation on HP-UX 11.x

- do not report failed inlining when compiling with gcc

- fix compilation with new development versions of xforms

- fix compilation with AikSaurus 1.0