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Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 4)
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We are pleased to announce the fourth beta release of LyX 1.6.0.
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LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the
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release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
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result.
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As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
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visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
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some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
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The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
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compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of
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issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
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In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
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http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
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based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
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is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
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LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
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right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
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details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
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boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
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TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
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On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
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richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
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nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
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looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
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different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
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your dissertation the evening before going to press.
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LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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You can download LyX 1.6.0alpha2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
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which yields smaller files):
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2
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Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
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from version 1.5.5.
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Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
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installers) should soon be available at
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.6.0alpha2/
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
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a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
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If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
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first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
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e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
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Enjoy!
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The LyX team.
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What's new in version 1.6.0beta4?
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The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
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http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
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