As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
-glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
- appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of
+ appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of
visual layout to the software.
LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
- Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface
- and therefore need an X server.
+ Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface
+ and therefore need an X server.
You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
-Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
+Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
-
+
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
-first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list
-(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.
+first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list
+(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.
Enjoy!
version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
-are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
+are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next
release. You have been warned ;-)
-In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
-invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
-Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
-highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
+In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
+invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
+Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
+highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
** Gnome frontend
** Instant preview
preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
-of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
-LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
+of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
+LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
-structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
+structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
** Reading old files
LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
-produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
-created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
+produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
+created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
-- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
- for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
+- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
+ for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
tables of contents.
-- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
+- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
removed in 1.2.0
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