-Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1)
+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3)
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-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 1).
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 3).
-It is the culmination of 1 year of hard work, and we sincerely hope
-this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, with initial unicode support as the flagship
-of new features, jump directly to the end of this message if you want
-to know more.
+Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
+and added some improvements, namely a new inset to support code listings.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
+We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
+
+Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
+this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
+bug fixing.
+
+Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
+one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
+results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
+with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
+features, see the end of this announcement for details.
+
+As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
+compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
+issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
-You can download LyX 1.5.0beta1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
+You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.bz2
-
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
-the .bz2 versions):
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
- http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta1.tar.gz
-
-Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
+Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.4.
Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0beta1/
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta1, you may either
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta3, 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
The LyX team.
-What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
----------------------------
* Unicode
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.
+* Integrated CJK support
+
+The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
+merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
+The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
+the user interface.
+Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
+done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+
* Multiple views of the same buffer
LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
parts of it synchronously.
-* Outliner
+* Outliner and embedded TOC
LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
-1.4.4.)
+1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
-* Session managment
+* Session management
LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
-the LyX window. The session managment will remember their state.
+the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
* Source code Viewer
provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
-* Glossaries
+* Nomenclatures
Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+
+The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
+added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the
+math toolbars.
+Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
+panel itself has been removed and superseded by the toolbars.
+
* Frontend News
LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
-has been transfered to a branch because its development has
+has been transferred to a branch because its development has
essentially stalled.
* Change tracking enhancements
-Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
+Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing
several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
* Converter file cache
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
-is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
-you want to use it, add the line
- \use_converter_cache true
+is enabled by default.
+
+The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
+that with the line
-to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
-6 months. You can change that with the line
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
-where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
+where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
* Unified Windows installer
The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
both installers are welcome.
+* Program listings
+
+The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
+of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
+does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
+
+Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
+supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+
+* Minor user interface improvements
+
+Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
+the user interface have been made, such as:
+
+ - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
+ - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
+ - Support optional argument for environments
+
+* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+
+Clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications. Parallel
+to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button to paste
+selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows (but
+within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
+you can paste the selected text using middle button multiple times,
+even after the selection has been cleared.
+
+
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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