-How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.1.5?
+How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.3.0?
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-If you upgrade from version 0.12.0 or 1.0.x, you shouldn't have
-any problems. However, in the source we have begun a transition
-to use ANSI C++ more and this can make it hard or impossible to
-compile LyX on old or non-conformant compilers. If the compile is
-successfull everything should be just like in 1.0.4. Just run
-"make install", and it will automatically update the necessary
-files, provided that you install LyX the same place as
-an existing version.
+One of the perennial bug bears of LyX users in the past has been that
+they have had to run Edit->Reconfigure when starting their new version
+of the code for the first time. Strange and wonderful things would
+often result if they forgot to do this, so LyX 1.3.0 now runs
+Edit->Reconfigure automatically the first time the program is run.
+
+If you have your own layout files, you may need to update them a little:
+
+- all layout files should have a "DefaultStyle" entry
+
+- the "Latex" font style does not exist anymore. If you really need
+ its functionality, consider using the "PassThru" keyword instead.
+
+The new layout format keywords are described in the Customization
+manual.
+
+If you have your own binding files (especially math.bind), you will
+have to update them
+
+- math-insert now takes a latex macro name as argument, so that
+ "math-insert sqrt" should now be "\math-insert \sqrt"
+
+- math-greek-toggle is now gone, and should be replaced by explicit
+ bindings like
+
+ \bind "M-m g a" "math-insert \alpha"
+
+
+Build requirements
+------------------
+
+LyX's graphics handling system has changed substantially. If you
+do not have the JPEG library installed, you may need to install
+it before you can use the graphics capabilities of LyX. If you
+do not have the ImageMagick command-line tools installed, you
+will need to modify the default set up of LyX, or install them,
+in order to get previews of your document's graphics.
Document transfer
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-In general, you don't need to convert any documents saved with LyX
-v0.10, v0.12.0 or v1.0.x to use them with LyX v1.1.5.
+LyX 1.3.0 uses an external python script, lyx2lyx, to import documents
+written using previous versions of LyX. All versions of LyX as far back as
+0.12 are supported, so any klyx users still holding out for an alternative
+to xforms will finally be able to put their dinosaur to rest ;-)
-LyX v1.1.5 can read all documents saved with lyx-0.12.0 and later correctly.
-Documents saved with lyx-0.10.x are read correctly up to the old math
-mode, which is not supported anymore. If you have documents with such
-math formulas, you convert it using the program COLD, written by Preben
-Rhandol. COLD can be found at:
+Of course, this means that you must have python installed in order to
+use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents.
- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/lyx/COLD/
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/
+lyx2lyx also has the framework in place to be able to convert documents
+to an earlier format. However, these converters have not yet been written
+so older versions of LyX will NOT be able to read documents saved with
+LyX 1.3.0.
-or at one of LyX archive mirror sites listed in README.
+If you were previously using the floatflt paragraph option to
+wrap text around a figure, you will need to modify this for LyX 1.2.0
+manually, as described in the manuals. Please ask on the lyx-users
+list for assistance if you have trouble with this.
+
+The babel package is now loaded after the user-defined
+preamble (because some packages really need to be loaded before
+babel). If you relied, on babel being loaded before your own
+definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at
+the beginning of your preamble.
-Documents saved with LyX version 1.1.5 can be read correctly by
-LyX v0.12.0 and v1.0.x, except for new and a couple of changed features.
+http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315
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