1 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
5 release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
6 the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
7 important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
8 a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
9 announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
13 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
14 either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. The dialogs are
15 not copies of those of xforms, but that some different design choices
18 There are a few caveats though:
24 The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
25 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
26 implemented, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
27 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
29 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
30 version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
31 General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
32 many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
33 are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. As
34 a matter of fact, LyX 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of
35 xforms older than 0.89.5.
37 In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
38 invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
39 Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
40 highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
41 feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
45 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
46 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
47 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
52 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant
53 previews" of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual
54 rendering of the LaTeX in the document. With the help of David
55 Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
56 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
57 figures. This feature can be immensely useful for making sure the
58 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
59 preview is only displayed (when enabled) when you're not editing the
60 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
64 There have been few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
65 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
66 a formula by showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
67 formula itself and by revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
68 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
69 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New is also the internal
70 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets" as anything
71 else from a square root to an array. This does not only simplify the
72 code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
73 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
74 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
75 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
76 implementing support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox and general
77 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
78 trickery is not needed anymore.
82 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which allows to read any old file
83 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. 0.10 series is in the works
84 for 0.10 (1.4 time line) and still older files are in the forge.
85 Basically if lyx wrote it lyx will read it. :-)
87 There is also a strong demand for being able to read files produced by
88 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has an infrastructure in place
89 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
90 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
92 ** Miscellaneous changes
94 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering if they are
95 available (it is not necessary anymore to configure your font server).
97 - The Insert>Short Title allows to add an optional text for section
98 headings and captions that is designed to be used in table of
101 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the capability
102 of wrapping a text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
105 What's new in version 1.2.2?
106 ----------------------------
108 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
109 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
114 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
115 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
116 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
118 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
119 when dragging the mouse)
121 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
122 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
123 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
126 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
127 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
128 who are not aware that it is needed
130 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
131 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
133 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
134 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
136 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
138 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
140 - update sciword bindings
142 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
143 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
145 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
149 What's new in version 1.2.1?
150 ----------------------------
152 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
153 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
154 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
155 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
160 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
161 when this gets released)
163 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
164 the performance problems
166 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
168 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
169 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
170 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
172 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
175 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
176 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
177 help entering of ERT insets)
179 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
181 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
183 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
185 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
186 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
189 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
191 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
194 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
195 line and have this file created for you
197 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
198 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
201 What's new in version 1.2.0?
202 ----------------------------
204 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
205 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
206 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
207 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
208 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
211 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
212 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
215 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
216 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
219 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
220 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
221 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
223 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
226 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
227 appear in the output.
231 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
232 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
236 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
238 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
239 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
240 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
243 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
247 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
248 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
249 process, among which:
251 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
253 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
254 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
255 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
257 - support for many amsmath features
258 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
259 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
260 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
261 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
264 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
266 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
268 - Improvements to the parser
270 - Improvements to math text mode
272 - (Better) support for nested macros
274 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
276 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
278 - GUI support provided for many more features
281 Other changes include:
283 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
286 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
287 improved in the process
289 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
290 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
291 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
293 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
296 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
297 "shelfful", or many german words
299 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
300 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
301 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
302 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
304 - Updated documentation
306 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
309 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
311 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
313 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
315 - Babel can be disabled
317 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
319 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
320 ------------------------------------
322 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
326 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
328 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
329 appears to be more suitable.
331 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
332 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
334 - add support for dvipdfm
336 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
337 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
339 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
342 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
344 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
347 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
349 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
352 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
353 ------------------------------------
355 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
359 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
362 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
363 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
365 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
368 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
369 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
371 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
372 Theoretical Computer Science
374 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
376 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
377 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
379 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
380 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
381 with the older version
384 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
385 ------------------------------------
387 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
391 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
393 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
394 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
395 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
397 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
398 documentation update.
400 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
403 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
404 ------------------------------------
406 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
410 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
411 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
413 - better support for ukrainian language
415 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
416 working --with-lyx-suffix.
418 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
421 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
423 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
426 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
427 --------------------------------
429 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
430 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
431 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
433 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
434 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
435 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
436 from the older development version:
438 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
439 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
440 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
441 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
442 have been overhauled.
444 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
447 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
448 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
450 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
452 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
453 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
454 will give you an idea of what is happening.
456 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
458 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
459 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
460 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
461 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
462 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
463 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
464 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
466 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
467 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
468 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
471 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
472 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
473 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
474 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
475 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
476 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
478 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
479 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
480 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
481 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
482 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
484 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
486 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
488 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
489 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
490 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
491 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
492 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
493 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
495 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
497 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
500 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
501 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
503 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
504 mentioned here for your information
506 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
507 (this can be changed in preferences).
509 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
514 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
515 --------------------------------
517 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
518 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
519 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
521 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
522 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
524 User-visible changes:
526 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
528 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
530 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
532 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
534 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
535 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
537 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
539 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
541 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
542 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
544 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
546 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
548 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
550 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
551 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
552 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
553 (And you probably had the error always.)
555 - Better definition for LyXList style.
557 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
558 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
560 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
562 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
563 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
564 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
565 support is of course not supported in older versions.
567 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
569 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
570 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
572 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
573 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
575 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
576 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
577 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
578 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
581 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
582 --------------------------------
584 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
585 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
586 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
589 In the user-visible department, we find:
591 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
592 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
593 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
594 the GUI pops up during the process...
596 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
598 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
599 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
601 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
602 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
603 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
604 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
606 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
609 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
610 --------------------------------
612 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
613 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
615 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
616 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
617 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
619 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
620 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
623 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
626 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
628 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
629 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
630 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
631 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
632 for the sake of correctness.
634 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
635 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
637 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
638 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
640 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
642 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
644 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
646 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
647 --------------------------------
649 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
651 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
652 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
653 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
655 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
657 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
659 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
661 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
664 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
665 --------------------------------
667 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
668 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
669 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
670 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
671 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
672 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
674 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
676 - New export to HTML feature
678 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
680 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
681 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
682 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
684 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
685 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
686 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
688 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
689 --------------------------------------------------
691 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
692 new features has been included:
698 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
700 - Several language files updated.
702 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
704 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
705 --------------------------------------------------
707 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
709 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
712 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
714 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
716 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
717 --------------------------------------------------
719 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
720 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
722 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
724 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
725 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
727 - Better multipart document support.
729 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
732 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
735 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
736 --------------------------------------------------
738 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
739 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
741 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
743 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
745 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
747 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
749 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
753 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
754 ----------------------------------------------------
756 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
757 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
759 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
760 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
761 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
762 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
763 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
765 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
766 footnotes, and generally better output.
768 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
769 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
770 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
771 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
772 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
774 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
775 and error message translations) for several languages.
777 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
778 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
779 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
781 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
783 - Improved table support.
785 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
787 - easier handling of index entries.
789 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
790 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
791 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
792 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
795 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
796 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as