-How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.2.x?
+How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.3.0?
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-If you upgrade from version 1.1.6 or 1.1.5, you shouldn't have any
-problems. It is nevertheless a good idea to advise all users to run
-Edit>Reconfigure.
+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:
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
-----------------
-In general, you don't need to convert any documents saved with LyX
-1.1.5 or 1.1.6 to use them with LyX 1.2.0.
+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 ;-)
+
+Of course, this means that you must have python installed in order to
+use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents.
-LyX 1.2.0 can read all documents saved with lyx 1.1.6 correctly.
-However, older LyX versions will almost certainly fail to read files
-produced by LyX 1.2.0.
+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.
-Note that your document may rely on the floatflt package (for example,
-you may use \floatingfigure via LaTeX commands). If your document does
-not have "\usepackage{floatflt}" already in the user pre-amble, you will
-need to add it.
+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.
-Note that the babel package is now loaded after the user-defined
+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.
-
-
+http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315
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