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Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
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We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
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As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
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release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
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on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
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glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
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LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
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Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
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hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
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been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
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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 an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
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approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
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appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of
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visual layout to the software.
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LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
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Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface
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and therefore need an X server.
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You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
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ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
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Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
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available at
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@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/, and e-mail the LyX users' list
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(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.
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Enjoy!
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The LyX team.
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New features
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** Qt frontend
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This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
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either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
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of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
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functionally equivalent.
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** Xforms frontend
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The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
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frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
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implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
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most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
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Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
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version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
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General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
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many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
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are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
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In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
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Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next
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release. You have been warned ;-)
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In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
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invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
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Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
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highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
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feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
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** Gnome frontend
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Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
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stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
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strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
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developer's list.
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** Instant preview
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preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
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of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
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LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
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Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
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allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
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figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
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rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
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preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
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actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
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** Math editor
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There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
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visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
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a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
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formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
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minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
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package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
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structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
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anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
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the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
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"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
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behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
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get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
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support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
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"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
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trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
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- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
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in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
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- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
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will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
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removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
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like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
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the inset and press 'backspace'.
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** Reading old files
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LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
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produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
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created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
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in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
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There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
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_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
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to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
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1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
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** Miscellaneous changes
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- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
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equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
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configure your font server).
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- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
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for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
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tables of contents.
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- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
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to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
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removed in 1.2.0
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- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
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spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
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multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
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installed.
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