-Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
-this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
-you want to know more.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-As usual with major releases, 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.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+LyX 2.2.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
+reliable and more stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number
+of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless
+encourage all users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
+2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
- LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
- based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
- is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
+One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
+for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
+does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
+ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
+current element.
- LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
- right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
- details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
- boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
- TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.2, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
- On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
- richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
- nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
- looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
- different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
- your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
+documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
+http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
+users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org).
- LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
- internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
- Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
-You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
-the .bz2 versions):
+What's new
+==========
- http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+** Updates:
+***********
-Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
+- .xlsx is now a suggested extension in the spreadsheet external template.
+- Improve systemlyxdir handling.
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, 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/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
+* USER INTERFACE
-Enjoy!
+- When changing zoom level, show current value in status bar (bug
+ 10212).
-The LyX team.
+- Names containing @ are now recognised by the syntax highlighter in the
+ preamble.
+
+- Replace Insert>Caption submenu by a normal entry when there is only one
+ caption type.
+
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Italian and Slovak user interface localization.
+
+- Updated French Customizaion, Math, Tutorial and UserGuide manuals.
+
+- Update beamer manual with regard to the new Separator usage.
+
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+
+- If available, use qtchooser to select correct Qt tools when configuring.
+
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- We no longer attempt to convert images for which we cannot find an
+ input format.
+
+- Fixed fen2ascii script.
+
+- Fixed preview of external material with plaintext and DocBook.
+- Fixed substitution for $$Contents in external templates.
+- Fixed usage of new module "Title and Preamble Hacks" (bug 10320).
-What's new in version 1.4.0?
-----------------------------
+- Fix error with older versions of the covington package in the
+ Linguistics module (bug 10340).
-** Improved user interface
+- Fix LaTeX error with recent LuaTeX versions when using landscape.
-LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
-clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
-menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
-the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
-classic UI) is still available, for now.
+- Fix data loss with [ in first cell of aligned environment (bug 10361).
-It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
-editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
-the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
-extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
-available: one for tables, and one for math.
-Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
-toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
-table.
+* LYX2LYX
-** Change tracking
+- Fix hang with some IEEEtran documents (bug 10307).
-This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
-makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
-changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
-changes.
+- Fix export of compressed files to previous versions that were not
+ recognised on windows (bug 10273).
-** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
-The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
-and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
-parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
-much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
+* USER INTERFACE
-** Character styles
+- Avoid crashing in release mode if we stumble across an unrealized font.
-For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
-logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
-omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
-addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
-styles.
+- Correctly return exit code from spawned processes on Windows (bug 10327).
+- Fix display of citations with two authors.
-** Branches
+- Fix display of multi-author citations when the GUI language is not English.
-The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
-seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
-document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
+- Fix bug where change tracking marks are lost under math insets (bug
+ 10265).
-That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
-"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
-more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
+- Fix display glitch when switching to Description layout with an inset
+ at the beginning of the paragraph (bug 10163)
-** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+- Fix display of label font for argument insets.
-In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
-use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
-GUI
+- Keep leading whitespace when converting local layout.
-** Notes
+- Correct default font of beamer article layouts (bug 9977).
-LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
-the Insert>Note menu:
+- Remove extra whitespace around Preview and IPA insets (bug 10304).
-- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
-- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
- further.
-- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
- well, greyed-out text.
+- Let M-x give focus to minibuffer when it is already open.
-** Better language and numbering on screen
+- When doing a selection with Shift-click, make sure that the selection anchor
+ is correct.
-Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+- Avoid to overwrite end-of-proof character with text on screen (bug
+ 10344).
-- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
- the language of the document, which may be different from the
- language of the menus;
-- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
- document class specifications.
+- Use proper dialog titles in InsetParams-derived dialogs (bug 10329).
-** Word count
+- Fix "scroll here" feature of scrollbar (bug 10311).
-Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
-count of the document or of the current selection.
+- Fix the minimum size of the citation dialog on first time (bug 10019).
-** Error Lists
+- When Enter does nothing (empty paragraph), do not record undo (bug 10089).
-Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
-of errors popping up at compilation time.
+- Remove duplicate context menu item for Argument insets (bug 10368).
-** Improved bibliography support
+- Fix display of vertical lines inside math matrices (bug 10363).
-- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
- "before citation" field is supported;
-- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
- flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
- and law fields;
-- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
-- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
- index processor is invoked).
-** Improved microtypography support
+* LYXHTML
-LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+- Enable export of external material (bug 8693).
-- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
- between "e." and "g.");
-- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
- style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
-- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
- improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
- much space between figure/table and caption.
+- Fix problem with output of branches (bug 8022).
-** Small bits
+- Fix output of table borders (bug 10154).
-- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+- Fix display of several math symbols (bug 8844).
-- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
- pdf generation
+- Use scaling factor for export of images (bug 8742).
-- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
- edit the included figure
+- Fix display of listings (bug 8362).
-- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
- has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+- Fix output of floats, etc, inside environments (bug 9094).
-** Bug fixes
+- Simplify XHTML output for floats, etc (bug 8605).
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+- Add "dir='auto'" to body tag, which should help a lot with export of
+ RTL languages (bug 8279, partly).
+- Fix display of cases and matrices (bugs 8753, 8755).
+- Fixed output of logos to the TOC.
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