+Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
+===================================
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
+
+Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
+we have updated the documentation.
+
+Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
+respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
+Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
+selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
+
+LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
+release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
+result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
+initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
+the end of this announcement for further 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.
+
+* Unicode
+
+LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
+of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
+languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
+encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
+encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
+Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
+areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
+the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
+bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
+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 setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
+using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
+or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
+
+* Language support
+
+In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
+have full user interface support.
+
+* 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 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.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+
+* 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 management will remember their state.
+
+* Source code Viewer
+
+As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
+you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
+document.
+
+* New Font Selection Interface
+
+LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
+outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
+provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
+
+* Tabular extensions
+
+LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
+LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
+providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
+
+* Nomenclatures
+
+LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
+you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
+glossaries and fancy notations.
+
+* Tabbed Widget
+
+LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+
+* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+
+The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
+added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
+to the math toolbars.
+Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
+panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
+
+* Frontend News
+
+LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
+Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
+longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
+Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
+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 also removed. The work on the GTK
+frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
+essentially stalled.
+
+* Change tracking enhancements
+
+Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
+several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
+
+* Converter file cache
+
+A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
+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 enabled by default.
+
+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, 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.
+
+* LaTeX-package support
+
+LyX provides the following new document classes:
+ - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
+ - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
+ - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
+ - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
+ - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
+
+* Minor user interface improvements
+
+Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
+
+ - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
+ - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
+ - Support for optional arguments for environments.
+
+* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+
+The 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 the middle button multiple times,
+even after the selection has been cleared.
+
+* Limited support for local class and layout files
+
+Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
+stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
+your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
+can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
+.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
+.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
+should you use different directories for master and child documents.
+
+* Under the hood
+
+As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
+core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
+easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
+application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
+code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
+1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
+series has been to bring this speed back.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
+----------------------------
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
+We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
+any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
+in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
+
+Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
+and polished the graphical interface.
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
+----------------------------
+
+The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
+no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
+exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
+since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
+----------------------------
+
+Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
+and added some improvements:
+
+ * A new inset to support code listings.
+ * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
+ * The languages Armenian, 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!
+
+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.
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
+----------------------------
+
+Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
+added some graphical improvements:
+ * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
+ * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
+ * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+
+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
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
+----------------------------
+
+* Unicode
+
+LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
+of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
+languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
+encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
+encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
+Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
+areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
+the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
+bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
+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.
+
+* 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
+
+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.)
+
+* 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 management will remember their state.
+
+* Source code Viewer
+
+As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
+you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
+document.
+
+* New Font Selection Interface
+
+LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
+outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
+provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
+
+* Tabular extensions
+
+LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
+LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
+provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
+
+
+* Nomenclatures
+
+Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
+you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
+glossaries and fancy notations.
+
+* Tabbed Widget
+
+LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+
+* Frontend News
+
+LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
+Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
+longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
+Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
+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 transferred to a branch because its development has
+essentially stalled.
+
+* Change tracking enhancements
+
+Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
+several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
+
+* Converter file cache
+
+A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
+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
+
+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.
+
+* Unified Windows installer
+
+The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
+both installers are welcome.
+
+* Under the hood
+
+As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
+core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
+easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
+application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
+code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
+1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
+series has been to bring this speed back.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.5?
+----------------------------
+
+** Updates:
+***********
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
+
+- Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
+ settings (bug 3416).
+
+- Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
+
+- Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
+ 3510).
+
+- Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
+
+* USER INTERFACE:
+
+- Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
+ last paragraph (bug 3303).
+
+- Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
+ math insets (bug 3358).
+
+- Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
+
+- Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
+
+- Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
+
+- Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
+
+- Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
+ (bug 3312).
+
+- Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
+
+- Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
+ Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
+
+- Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
+
+- Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
+ things (bug 3295).
+
+- Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
+ non-zero descent.
+
+- Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
+
+- Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
+
+- Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
+
+- Fix undo for special characters.
+
+- Fix gui for big delimiters.
+
+- Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
+ delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
+
+- Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
+
+- Fix example for docbook-article.
+
+- Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
+
+- Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
+ class (bug 3931).
+
+* DOCUMENTATION
+
+- Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
+ (bug 3736).
+
+- Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
+
+- Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
+
+- Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
+
+- Allow automake 1.10 for building.
+
+- Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
+ 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
+ 2.3.x python releases).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.4?
+----------------------------
+
+** Updates:
+***********
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
+
+- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
+
+- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
+ (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
+ that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
+ if you want to use this feature.
+
+- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
+
+- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
+ presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
+ by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
+ Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
+ file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
+
+- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
+
+* USER INTERFACE:
+
+- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
+ documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
+
+- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
+ allowing to select what toolbars are active.
+
+- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
+ layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
+ extra toolbar.
+
+- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
+
+- Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
+ characters on a qwerty keyboard).
+
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
+
+- A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
+ in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
+ floats, notes, and boxes.
+
+- Updated Intro and Extended manual.
+
+- New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
+ Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
+
+- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
+ Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
+ (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
+
+
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
+
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
+
+- Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
+ they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
+ Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
+
+- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
+ and alignedat.
+
+- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
+
+- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
+
+- Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
+ 2744).
+
+- The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
+ (bug 2186).
+
+- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
+
+- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
+ again.
+
+- Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
+ with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
+ very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
+
+- Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
+
+- Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
+
+- Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
+ (bug 2843).
+
+- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
+
+- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
+ files.
+
+- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
+
+- Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
+
+- Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
+
+- Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
+
+- Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
+ it cannot be omitted.
+
+* USER INTERFACE:
+
+- Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
+
+- Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
+
+- Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
+ Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
+
+- Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
+ taller than the workarea.
+
+- Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
+ related to large insets.
+
+- Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
+ windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
+ 1.4.3.
+
+- Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
+ dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
+
+- Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
+ mode (bug 2865).
+
+- Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
+ and 2933).
+
+- Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
+
+- Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
+
+- Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
+ are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
+
+- Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
+ with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
+ tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
+
+- fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
+ 2877).
+
+- when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
+ that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
+
+- Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
+
+- Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
+
+- Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
+
+- When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
+ inset, do not open it by mistake.
+
+- When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
+ inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
+
+- Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
+
+- Show contents of branches in the ToC.
+
+- Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
+
+- Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
+
+- Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
+ French keyboard too.
+
+- Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
+
+- Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
+
+- Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
+
+- Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
+
+- Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
+
+- Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
+
+- Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
+
+- Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
+ important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
+
+- Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
+
+- Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
+
+- Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
+
+- Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
+
+- On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
+ the Finder uses.
+
+- The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
+ a document. This is fixed.
+
+- Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
+ (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
+ (bug 3066) [qt only].
+
+- Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
+ tempted to try them (bug 2387).
+
+- add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
+ in preferences (bug 895)
+
+- Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
+ (bug 3220).
+
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
+
+- Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
+
+- Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
+
+* MISCELLANEOUS
+
+- The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
+
+- Fix Free Software Foundation address.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.3?
+----------------------------
+
+** Updates:
+
+- All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
+ longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
+
+- Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
+ mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
+ the end (bug 2201).
+
+- Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
+
+- Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
+
+- Some small updates to the documentation.
+
+- Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
+ Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
+
+- Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
+ and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
+
+** Bug fixes:
+
+* Document Input/Output
+
+- Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
+
+- Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
+ (bug 2782).
+
+- Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
+
+- Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
+ LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
+
+- When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
+ require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
+ \color (bug 2716).
+
+- Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
+ when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
+
+- Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
+ \atop or \over (bug 2481).
+
+- Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
+
+- Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
+
+- Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
+
+- Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
+
+* User Interface:
+
+- Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
+ boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
+
+- Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
+ inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
+
+- Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
+ creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
+
+- Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
+
+- Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
+
+- Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
+
+- Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
+
+- Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
+ inset (bug 2830).
+
+- Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
+
+- Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
+
+- Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
+
+- Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
+ clicks in the text.
+
+- Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
+
+- Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
+ one element (like {a'}^{2}).
+
+- On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
+ if it exists (bug 2779).
+
+- When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
+ don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
+
+- When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
+ paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
+
+- Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
+
+- Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
+
+- Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
+
+- Update labels on screen when changing language.
+
+- Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
+ chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
+
+- Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
+ ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
+
+- Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
+
+- Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
+
+- Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
+
+- Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
+
+- Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
+ "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
+
+- The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
+ directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
+
+- Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
+
+- New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
+ accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
+
+* Build/installation:
+
+- Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
+
+- Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
+ /bin/bash (bug 2524).
+
+- Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
+ (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
+
+- Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
+
+- Install python files together with precompiled versions.
+
+- A scons build system has been added, for details please see
+ INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
+ package under cygwin.
+
+- A CMake build system has been added, for details see
+ development/cmake/README.cmake
+
+- LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
+ project and scons or CMake.
+
+* Miscellaneous
+
+- LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
+
+- Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
+
+- Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
+
+- Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
+
+- Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
+ iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
+
+- Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
+
+- Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
+ replaced by tex2LyX.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.2?
+----------------------------
+
+** Updates
+
+- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
+ [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
+
+- Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
+ in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
+ on disk or not.
+
+- Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
+ Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
+
+- Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
+ (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
+
+- Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
+
+- Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
+ .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
+ to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
+
+- Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
+ International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
+ IJMP D).
+
+- Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
+
+- Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
+
+- Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
+
+- Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
+ the math panel yet.)
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+* User Interface:
+
+- Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
+
+- Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
+ acceptable UI.
+
+- Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
+ an inset (bug 2526).
+
+- Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
+ (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
+
+- Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
+ and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
+
+- Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
+ (bug 2603).
+
+- When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
+ language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
+
+- Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
+ (bug 2476).
+
+- Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
+ change tracking mode.
+
+- Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
+ with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
+
+- Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
+ markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
+
+- Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
+ multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
+
+- Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
+ (bug 2509).
+
+- Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
+ table.
+
+- Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
+
+- Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
+ error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
+
+- Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
+
+- Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
+ the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
+
+- Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
+
+- Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
+
+- Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
+
+* Math editor:
+
+- Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
+ (bug 2036).
+
+- Fix undo in matrices.
+
+- Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
+
+* Document input/output:
+
+- Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
+ files correctly.
+
+- Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
+ position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
+
+- Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
+ using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
+ array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
+
+- Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
+
+- Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
+ active (bug 2214).
+
+- Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
+
+- Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
+
+- Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
+
+- Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
+
+- Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
+ pdflatex (bug 2235).
+
+- Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
+
+- Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
+
+* Miscellaneous:
+
+- Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
+ lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
+ has also been pythonified.
+
+- It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
+ support directory.
+
+- Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
+ lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
+ any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
+ before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
+
+- Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
+ directory on Windows.
+
+- When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
+ rename the executable files.
+
+- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
+ --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
+
+- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
+
+- Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
+ in the source package.
+
+- Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
+ and Mac OS X.
+
+- Fix hyphens in man pages.
+
+- Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
+ \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
+ Windows.
+
+- Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
+ support via zlib is now a requirement.
+
+- Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.1?
+----------------------------
+
+** Updates
+
+- Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
+ (bug 880).
+
+- Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
+ localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
+ Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
+
+- Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
+ translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
+
+- Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
+ LaTeXConfig.lyx.
+
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+* Document input/output:
+
+- Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
+
+- Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
+
+- Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
+ caption (bug 675).
+
+- Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
+
+- Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
+
+- Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
+
+- Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
+
+- Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
+ lyx2lyx (bug 2245).
+
+- Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
+
+- Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
+
+- Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
+
+- Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
+
+- Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
+ documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
+ complete fix will go in 1.4.2
+
+
+* Math editor:
+
+- Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
+
+- Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
+
+- Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
+
+- Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
+ math (bug 2485).
+
+- Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
+ in a cell.
+
+- Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
+
+- Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
+
+- Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
+
+- Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
+
+
+* User Interface:
+
+- Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
+
+- Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
+
+- Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
+ deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
+
+- Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
+
+- Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
+
+- Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
+ natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
+
+- Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
+ classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
+
+- Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
+
+- Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
+
+- Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
+
+- Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
+ line/document start/end (bug 2298).
+
+- Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
+
+- Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
+
+- Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
+
+- Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
+
+- Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
+
+- Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
+
+- Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
+
+- Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
+
+- Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
+
+- Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
+ file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
+
+- Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
+
+
+* Configuration/Installation:
+
+- Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
+ Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
+
+- Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.0?
+----------------------------
+
+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.
+
+** Improved user interface
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+** Change tracking
+
+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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** Character styles
+
+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.
+
+
+** Branches
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+
+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
+
+** Notes
+
+LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
+the Insert>Note menu:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Better language and numbering on screen
+
+Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Word count
+
+Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
+count of the document or of the current selection.
+
+** Error Lists
+
+Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
+of errors popping up at compilation time.
+
+** Improved bibliography support
+
+- 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
+
+LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Small bits
+
+- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+
+- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
+ pdf generation
+
+- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
+ edit the included figure
+
+- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
+ has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.7?
+----------------------------
+
+We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
+addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
+noting:
+
+- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
+ the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
+
+- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
+ installer and in the handling of file names.
+
+All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.6?
+----------------------------
+
+Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
+
+To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
+to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
+effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
+unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
+touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
+confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
+Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
+
+We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
+ * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
+ spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
+ as teTeX 3.0).
+ * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
+ and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
+ * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
+ considered as part of words
+
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
+improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
+ * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
+ broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
+ case where the files are in different directories.
+ * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
+five main areas:
+ * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
+ * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
+ they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
+ * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
+ drag-and-drop);
+ * Mac OS X support is much improved;
+ * The interface and documentation localization have
+ been polished.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
+four main areas:
+ * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface and documentation.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
+three main areas:
+ * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
+ have been squashed;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
+features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
+significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
+also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
+improvements) for good measure.
+
+** Updates
+
+- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
+ is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
+
+- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
+ descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
+
+- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
+ polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
+ Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
+ scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
+ class kluwer
+
+- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
+ keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
+ (documentation has been updated too)
+
+- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
+ spanish translation of menus
+
+- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
+ of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
+ release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
+
What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
-release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
-the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
-important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
-a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
-announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+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!
+
+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.
** Qt frontend
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
-either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
+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.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
-latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
-displayed properly.
-
-** Xforms frontend
-
-The avent 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, since we had much 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. As
-a matter of fact, LyX 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of
-xforms older than 0.89.5.
-
-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.
+latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
+symbols displayed properly.
** 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. With the help of David
-Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
+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 for making sure the
+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 (when enabled) when you're not editing 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 few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
+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 by showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
-formula itself and by revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
+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 is also the internal
-structure of font changes which are now proper "insets" as anything
-else from a square root to an array. This does not only simplify the
-code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
+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
-implementing support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox and general
+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:
** Reading old files
-LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which allows to read any old file
-produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. 0.10 series is in the works
-for 0.10 (1.4 time line) and still older files are in the forge.
-Basically if lyx wrote it lyx will read it. :-)
+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 for being able to read files produced by
-_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has an infrastructure in place
+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.
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
-- The Insert>Short Title allows to add an optional text for section
- headings and captions that is designed to be used in table of
- contents.
+- 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 capability
- of wrapping a text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
+- 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
multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
installed.
+
+What's new in version 1.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
+where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
+special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
+Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
+
+** Updates
+
+- updated italian User Guide
+
+- updated french localization
+
+
What's new in version 1.2.2?
----------------------------
** Updates
- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
- when this gets released)
+ when this gets released)
- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
the performance problems
further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
-and 1.1.6).
+and 1.1.6).
This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
float-by-float
- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
- (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
+ (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
- split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
+ split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
Vmatrix
- Preliminary support for xymatrix
- Improvements to math text mode
-- (Better) support for nested macros
+- (Better) support for nested macros
- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
- New ligature break special character, useful for words like
"shelfful", or many german words
-- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
- with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
- improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
+- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
+ with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
+ improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
- Updated documentation
-- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
svprobth.
- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
New features:
- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
- change
+ change
- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
- support
+ support
- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
- Theoretical Computer Science
+ Theoretical Computer Science
- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
working --with-lyx-suffix.
- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
- line-delete-forward.
+ line-delete-forward.
- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
- applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
+ applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
- in lyxrc settings
+ in lyxrc settings
(note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
- LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
docbook-book.
- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
- largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
+ largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
mentioned here for your information
What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
--------------------------------
-Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
+Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
and expand.
paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
- in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
+ in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
- by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
- lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
+ by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
+ lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
-SGI STL 3.2.
+SGI STL 3.2.
In the user-visible department, we find:
- The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
- problems.
+ problems.
- the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
- works now.
+ works now.
- Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
-User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
+User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
- New export to HTML feature
- Better multipart document support.
- LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
- entries.
+ entries.
- New broadway textclass (for plays).
- Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
-- New LaTeX document classe: APA
+- New LaTeX document classe: APA
version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
- much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
- have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
+ have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
-template.
+template.
+
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