Take into account the latex encoding when generating math preview snippets.

[lyx.git] / RELEASE-NOTES

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@@ -9,8 +9,14 @@ Interface changes
 -----------------
 
 The external template format recognize now a new tag: 'Preview'. This tag is
-used to define how an external material should be previewed in LyX. For more detail,
-see the 'external_templates' file in the resource directory of LyX.
+used to define how an external material should be previewed in LyX. For more 
+detail, see the 'external_templates' file in the resource directory of LyX.
+
+LyX 1.6.0 introduces support for the pLaTeX distribution which provides extended
+language and script support for Japanese. The language "Japanese" now uses this
+new method. Japanese support via the CJK package is still available, but has been
+renamed to "Japanese (CJK)". Old documents continue to use the CJK method.
+Also cf. the "known issues" section for some remaining problems.
 
 Some of the LyX functions have changed names:
 
@@ -198,6 +204,7 @@ The following new LyX functions have been removed:
 
 - LFUN_MATH_IMPORT_SELECTION. Use LFUN_MATH_MODE instead.
 
+- LFUN_BIBITEM_INSERT.
 
 For the detailed description of LyX functions look into doxygen documentation.
 
@@ -205,7 +212,14 @@ For the detailed description of LyX functions look into doxygen documentation.
 Known issues in version 1.6.0
 ------------------------------------
 
-- ...
+- New pLaTeX support for Japanese:
+  * Documents using this method can be backported to 1.5 in pricipal, but
+    the backported documents are not guaranteed to work, since 1.5 falls
+    back to the CJK package; expect the output to differ.
+  * pLaTeX provides a Japanese variant of BibTeX named "jbibtex", which will
+    be selected automatically by LyX. If you run into problems with this or 
+    if you need to use an alternative BibTeX program, you can change this
+    setting in the LyX preferences (Output->LaTeX->BibTeX command).
 
 
 Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 1.6.x