-Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
+Public release of LyX version 2.2.4
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.4. This is the fourth and
+final maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
-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.
-LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
+You can download LyX 2.2.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
-hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
-been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
+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.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+LyX 2.2.4 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 several
+improvements. Most users, however, will want to upgrade to LyX 2.3.0, which
+was released shortly before 2.2.4. Users who want or need to continue using
+the 2.2.x series, however, should in most cases upgrade to 2.2.4. Perhaps its
+most imortant new feature is that it is able to read and write files in the
+2.3.x format. Please note, however, that the conversion process back and forth
+usually will not leave one with an identical file, so we do not recommend that
+users of 2.2.4 try to collaborate with users of 2.3.x.
- 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
- visual layout to the software.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.4, 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. Please note, however, that bugs discovered in
+2.2.4 will only be fixed in the 2.3.x series (if they still exist there), as
+there will be no further releases in the 2.2.x series.
- 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.
+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).
-You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :
-
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
-
-and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :
-
- ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
- 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
-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.
-
-Enjoy!
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.4.
The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-New features
-============
-
-** Qt frontend
-
-This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
-either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
-of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
-functionally equivalent.
-
-** Xforms frontend
-
-The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
-frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
-implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
-most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
-
-Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
-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.
-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
-feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
-
-** Gnome frontend
-
-Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
-stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
-strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
-developer's list.
-
-** 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
-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
-figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
-rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
-preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
-actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
-
-** Math editor
-
-There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
-visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
-a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
-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
-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
-behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
-get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
-support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
-"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
-trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
-
-- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
- in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
-
-- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
- will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
- removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
- like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
- the inset and press 'backspace'.
-
-** 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
-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
-_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
-to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
-1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
-
-** Miscellaneous changes
-
-- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
- 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
- tables of contents.
-
-- 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
-
-- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
- spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
- multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
- installed.
-
-
+What's new
+==========
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