-Compilers that are known to compile LyX are egcs 1.1.x, gcc 2.95.x and
-later, and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your
-experience with other compilers. It is _not_ possible to compile LyX
-with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x, and this is not likely to change in the
-future.
-
-Note that, contrary to LyX 1.0.x, LyX 1.2.x makes great use of C++
-Standard Template Library (STL); this means that gcc users will have
-to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this
-version.
-
-Both an Xforms and Xpm libraries should be installed to compile LyX.
-It is imperative that you have the correct versions of these
-libraries, and their associated header files.
-
-As of LyX version 1.2.0, you will need to have Xforms library and
-header version 0.88 or 0.89. Version 0.89.6 is the one which works
-best, but the old stable 0.88.1 version is still supported. On some
-systems, such as linux ELF, there are shared library versions of the
-Xforms library, which require an installation step to configure the
-system.
-
-Xforms is available (free) only in binary format, source code is not
-available. If it is not available for your machine, contact the Xforms
-developers to request a version for your system. You can get it from
-
- http://world.std.com/~xforms/
- ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/
- ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/gui/xforms
- ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/XFORMS/
-
-If you use a rpm-based linux distribution, such as RedHat or Mandrake,
-we recommend that you grab a version of xforms from
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib
-as the rpm packages commonly found are compiled against glibc 2.0
-instead of 2.[12], and this causes occasional crashes.
-
-In addition, you must have libXpm version 4.7 or newer.
-
-Note that the Qt and Gnome frontends are still under development, and
-as a result are only useful if you want to help out with testing and
-development.
-
+Compilers that are known to compile LyX are gcc 2.95.x and later
+and Digital C++ version 6.1 and later. Please tell us your experience
+with other compilers.
+
+It is _not_ possible to compile LyX with gcc 2.7.x and 2.8.x.
+
+LyX 1.4.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
+This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
+library to be able to compile this version of LyX. Users of gcc 2.95.x
+will have to install the STLPort version of these libraries as the
+ones that come with gcc 2.95.x are too broken for us to use.
+
+LyX has been tested with Qt 4.1.5. The only special point to
+make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are
+compiled with the same C++ compiler.
+
+Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
+latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
+maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type:
+
+ ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig
+
+at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known
+to use fontconfig.
+
+If, however, your version of Qt does not use fontconfig, then TeX
+fonts should be added to the font path. 'man xset' is your friend.
+
+* Other things to note
+