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Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.2. This is a maintenance
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release that focuses on improving the stability. We have fixed numerous
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crashes, performance problems, and other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation
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has been revised. It covers all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
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A detailed list of changes is appended below. The file RELEASE-NOTES lists
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some remaining known problems.
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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
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page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
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legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
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On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
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or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
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like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
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all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
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different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
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'eating' 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, the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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You can download LyX 1.5.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
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which yields smaller files):
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.bz2
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.tar.bz2
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and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
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also host the .bz2 versions):
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ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
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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.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.2/
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If you already have the LyX 1.5.1 sources, you may want to apply one
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of the following patches instead
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.gz
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ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.bz2
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Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
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some binary files have been added for this release.
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If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.2, you may either
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e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel <at> lists.lyx.org),
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or open 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
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question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
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the answer there, 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 1.5.2?
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----------------------------
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** Updates:
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***********
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* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
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- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
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date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
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For a detailed changelog, see
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http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status
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- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.
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- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
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* longtable alignment.
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* scaled and rotated material.
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- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
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In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
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all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
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"Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too.
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- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
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Simplified Chinese.
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- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian,
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Japanese, Portuguese and Romanian translations of the user interface.
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* USER INTERFACE
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- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
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enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.
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- Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).
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- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).
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- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
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(bug 2714).
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- Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656).
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- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.
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- The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or
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citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug
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2907).
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- The screen label of index insets now displays their content.
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- Floats comes now with fixed width on screen (bug 4002).
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- A "Title (Plain Frame)" style has been added to the beamer layout.
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This allows for setting a title frame without head-/footlines and
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navigation bars (bug 3133).
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- The AMS document classes have undergone a major rewrite. Several
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bugs were fixed and some new styles were added (bugs 4087, 4223).
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Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS for a detailed list of changes.
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- New LyX functions, master-buffer-view and master-buffer-update, have
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been added, to view the master buffer associated with a given child
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buffer. These are bound by default to C-M-t and C-M-d, for Postscript
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and DVI, respectively, for view, and to C-M-S-t and C-M-S-d, for update.
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- The debug output obtained with the '-dbg painting' option has been
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modified to be more verbose and in line with the LyX development
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version.
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** Bug fixes:
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*************
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
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- Reconfiguration failure will no longer result in empty textclass lists.
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Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829).
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- Check if the .lyx file has been externally modified when a buffer is saved.
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- Fix conversion from older documents if koi8 is used as the document
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encoding (bug 4158).
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- Handle array column specifiers @{decl.}, p{width} and the extensions by
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array.sty in mathed (bug 4132).
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- Detect (pdf)tex's file:line:error style messages that are used by some
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distributions and that caused LyX to ignore LaTeX errors (bug 4222).
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- Fix LaTeX error with captions in Program Listings (bug 4182).
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* USER INTERFACE:
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- Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with document tabs (bug 4123).
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- Fix a crash when clicking in a tabular cell and the "delete empty paragraph"
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mechanism triggers (bug 4133).
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- Fix a crash when using the LFUN 'buffer-write-as' with an argument
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that is not an absolute path (bug 4135).
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- Fix a crash when a user removes the underlying figure of a graphic inset
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that has been copied and pasted (bug 4108).
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- Fix a crash when inserting a float.
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- Fix a crash on quitting if graphics were selected (bug 4178).
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- Fix a crash when a user removes a formula when its preview is being
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generated (gcc 3 only).
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- Fix a crash when using the down arrow in an empty math subscript (bug 4117).
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- Fix a crash when logging out from within the Gnome desktop (bug 1656).
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- Fix a crash when exporting a file with graphics to LaTeX on Windows
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(bug 4243).
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- Fix a crash when a counter was ill-defined in a layout file (bug 4232).
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- Fix a crash with View>PDF on the Mac. This occurred only when LyX was
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compiled with gcc's stdlib-debug option (bug 4014).
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- Fix performance problem related to Clipboard and Selection on X11
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platforms (bug 4045).
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- Only update the toolbars that are actually visible. This improves LyX's
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performance on editing.
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- Further improve performance on editing by reducing the update calls of the
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math panel toolbar to the bare essentials.
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- Fix the loading of non-LyX child documents with relative path names. Change
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'Load' to 'Edit' in the child document dialog (bugs 4107 and 4111).
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- Allow roman numerals beyond 20 (bug 4112).
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- Render malformed tables correctly (bug 580).
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- Enable File>Revert when the file is externally modified, and rename
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this menu item to "File>Revert to saved" (bugs 3766 and 4114).
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- Update the screen when leaving a 'wide' inset using the up- and down-arrows.
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- Fix a problem where the Delete button in the citation dialog was erroneously
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disabled (bug 4121).
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- Reset the current cursor font when going to a bookmark.
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- Fix an icorrect handling of spaces in change tracking mode (bug 3961).
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- Fix a failure to close the window when a modified document is saved
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(bug 4170).
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- Highlight search text in the find dialog (bug 3999).
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- Fix the deletion of paragraphs with leading spaces (bug 3600).
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- Fix the loss of start-of-appendix information when creating/deleting an
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empty paragraph (bug 4212).
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- "Revert" and "Save As" are no longer treated as external modifications
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of the document (bug 4193).
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- Fix a bug where the "longest label" widget in the paragraph dialog was
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disabled after its content was deleted (bug 4127).
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- Fix a bug where the cursor was largely off-screen on document opening
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(bug 3427).
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- Fix a bug where fixed width insets were not honoured correctly (bug 4029).
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- Fix a bug where the current document was closed unexpectedly when
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typing a space after switching between 2 documents with the file->Open
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dialog (bug 4211).
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- Fix bug in box dialog where the inner box was empty when switching
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the box decoration (bug 4233).
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* DOCUMENTATION
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- Fix installation links for Hebrew (bug 4165).
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- Correct the description of list of algorithms in the Embedded Objects manual.
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- Fix the appearance of the word "LyX" in PDF-bookmarks in the
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Introduction manual (bug 2435).
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- removed description of the program "reLyX" that was replaced in LyX 1.4 by
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"tex2lyx" (bug 2766)
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* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
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- Upgrade to boost 1.34.1.
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- Upgrade to gettext 0.14.6.
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- On all supported platforms, allow Qt 4.2 or higher to use the math fonts in
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<sysdir>/fonts without the need to install them.
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- Make configure.py remove a log file generated by MikTeX and copy the file
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chkconfig.ltx to the user dir using default permissions (thus avoiding a
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bug on Cygwin where python doesn't copy ACLs associated with a file).
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- Clarify an error message for --without-included-boost.
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- Better alignment of the version info output.
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- Remove the /TP (force to use C++ compiler) option from scons/msvc.
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- Allow the use of a snapshot version of scons.
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- Fix usage display for lib/doc_toc.py (bug 3798).
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