-Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2)
-=========================================================
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.2
+===================================
-We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second
+maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 12 months of hard work since the
-release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
-result.
+You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-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.
+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.
-The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
-http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+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.
-The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
-compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of
-issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+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.
+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.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+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.
- 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.
+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 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.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2.
- 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.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.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.
-You can download LyX 1.6.0rc2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
+What's new
+==========
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc2.tar.bz2
+** Updates:
+***********
-Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
-from version 1.5.6.
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/
+- .xlsx is now a suggested extension in the spreadsheet external template.
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc2, you may either
-e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
-a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
+- Improve systemlyxdir handling.
-If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
-first check out http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
-Enjoy!
+* USER INTERFACE
-The LyX team.
+- When changing zoom level, show current value in status bar (bug
+ 10212).
+
+- 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).
+
+- Fix error with older versions of the covington package in the
+ Linguistics module (bug 10340).
+
+- Fix LaTeX error with recent LuaTeX versions when using landscape.
+
+- Fix data loss with [ in first cell of aligned environment (bug 10361).
+
+
+* LYX2LYX
+
+- Fix hang with some IEEEtran documents (bug 10307).
+
+- Fix export of compressed files to previous versions that were not
+ recognised on windows (bug 10273).
+
+
+* USER INTERFACE
+
+- Avoid crashing in release mode if we stumble across an unrealized font.
+
+- Correctly return exit code from spawned processes on Windows (bug 10327).
+
+- Fix display of citations with two authors.
+
+- Fix display of multi-author citations when the GUI language is not English.
+
+- Fix bug where change tracking marks are lost under math insets (bug
+ 10265).
+
+- Fix display glitch when switching to Description layout with an inset
+ at the beginning of the paragraph (bug 10163)
+
+- Fix display of label font for argument insets.
+
+- Keep leading whitespace when converting local layout.
+
+- Correct default font of beamer article layouts (bug 9977).
+
+- Remove extra whitespace around Preview and IPA insets (bug 10304).
+
+- Let M-x give focus to minibuffer when it is already open.
+
+- When doing a selection with Shift-click, make sure that the selection anchor
+ is correct.
+
+- Avoid to overwrite end-of-proof character with text on screen (bug
+ 10344).
+
+- Use proper dialog titles in InsetParams-derived dialogs (bug 10329).
+
+- Fix "scroll here" feature of scrollbar (bug 10311).
+
+- Fix the minimum size of the citation dialog on first time (bug 10019).
+
+- When Enter does nothing (empty paragraph), do not record undo (bug 10089).
+
+- Remove duplicate context menu item for Argument insets (bug 10368).
+
+- Fix display of vertical lines inside math matrices (bug 10363).
+
+
+* LYXHTML
+
+- Enable export of external material (bug 8693).
+
+- Fix problem with output of branches (bug 8022).
+
+- Fix output of table borders (bug 10154).
+
+- Fix display of several math symbols (bug 8844).
+
+- Use scaling factor for export of images (bug 8742).
+
+- Fix display of listings (bug 8362).
+
+- Fix output of floats, etc, inside environments (bug 9094).
+
+- Simplify XHTML output for floats, etc (bug 8605).
+
+- 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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