1 Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (alpha 2)
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4 We are pleased to announce the second alpha release of LyX 1.6.0 (the
5 first to be publicly announced).
7 LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 9 months of hard work since the
8 release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
11 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
12 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
13 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
15 The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
16 compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.4). An updated list of
17 issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
20 In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
21 http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
23 LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
24 based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
25 is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
27 LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
28 right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
29 details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
30 boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
31 TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
33 On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
34 richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
35 nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
36 looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
37 different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
38 your dissertation the evening before going to press.
40 LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
41 internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
42 Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
44 You can download LyX 1.6.0alpha2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
45 which yields smaller files):
47 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.gz
48 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0alpha2.tar.bz2
50 Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
53 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
54 installers) should soon be available at
55 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.6.0alpha2/
57 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0alpha2, you may either
58 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
59 a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
61 If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
62 first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
63 e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
70 What's new in version 1.6.0alpha2?
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73 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
74 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16