X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=1735c89f68499c28d2322bd45a600b131c066aa6;hb=e5ad7ee9c8302b8974e12f51627e80823798e6de;hp=1de57231e78b9e9fc30e98c09a83c00875a36264;hpb=a337813662d4537d220e675fe56feea04a81aa3c;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 1de57231e7..1735c89f68 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,231 +1,183 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) +Public release of LyX version 2.2.2 =================================== -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2). +We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.2.2. This is the second +maintenance release in the 2.2.x series. -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. +You can download LyX 2.2.2 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +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. - - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file - - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) - - Support optional arguments for environments +LyX 2.2.2 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 a number +of improvements. Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless +encourage all users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version. -Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of -one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the -results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, -with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new -features, see the end of this announcement for details. +Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with +2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module. -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. +One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images +for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it +does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will +ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the +current element. -The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release -compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of -issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.2.2, 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 + lists.lyx.org) and ask. +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 lists.lyx.org). -In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what -http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: +We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.2.2. - LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing - based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It - is released under a Free Software / Open Source license. +The LyX team. +http://www.lyx.org - LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, - right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting - details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page - boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary - TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. - On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or - richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like - nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all - looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably - different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating' - your dissertation the evening before going to press. +What's new +========== - LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully - internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the - Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. +** Updates: +*********** -You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with -bzip2, which yields smaller files): +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2 +- .xlsx is now a suggested extension in the spreadsheet external template. -Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade -from version 1.4.4. +- Improve systemlyxdir handling. -Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows -installers) should soon be available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ +* USER INTERFACE -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, 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 +- When changing zoom level, show current value in status bar (bug + 10212). -If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, -first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there, -e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org). +- Names containing @ are now recognised by the syntax highlighter in the + preamble. -Enjoy! +- Replace Insert>Caption submenu by a normal entry when there is only one + caption type. -The LyX team. +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- Updated Brazilian, French, German, Italian and Slovak user interface localization. + +- Updated French Customizaion, Math, Tutorial and UserGuide manuals. + +- Update beamer manual with regard to the new Separator usage. + + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION + +- If available, use qtchooser to select correct Qt tools when configuring. + + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- We no longer attempt to convert images for which we cannot find an + input format. + +- Fixed fen2ascii script. + +- Fixed preview of external material with plaintext and DocBook. + +- Fixed substitution for $$Contents in external templates. -What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)? ----------------------------- +- Fixed usage of new module "Title and Preamble Hacks" (bug 10320). -* Unicode +- Fix error with older versions of the covington package in the + Linguistics module (bug 10340). -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. +- Fix LaTeX error with recent LuaTeX versions when using landscape. -* Integrated CJK support +- Fix data loss with [ in first cell of aligned environment (bug 10361). -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 +* LYX2LYX -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. +- Fix hang with some IEEEtran documents (bug 10307). -* Outliner and embedded TOC +- Fix export of compressed files to previous versions that were not + recognised on windows (bug 10273). -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 managment +* USER INTERFACE -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 managment will remember their state. +- Avoid crashing in release mode if we stumble across an unrealized font. -* Source code Viewer +- Correctly return exit code from spawned processes on Windows (bug 10327). -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. +- Fix display of citations with two authors. -* New Font Selection Interface +- Fix display of multi-author citations when the GUI language is not English. -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 +- Fix bug where change tracking marks are lost under math insets (bug + 10265). -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. - +- Fix display glitch when switching to Description layout with an inset + at the beginning of the paragraph (bug 10163) -* Nomenclatures +- Fix display of label font for argument insets. -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. +- Keep leading whitespace when converting local layout. -* Tabbed Widget +- Correct default font of beamer article layouts (bug 9977). -LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. +- Remove extra whitespace around Preview and IPA insets (bug 10304). -* Enhanced Math Toolbars +- Let M-x give focus to minibuffer when it is already open. -The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were -added, that allowed to integrate all of the math panel' content to the -math toolbars. -Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math -panel itself has been removed and superseeded by the toolbars. +- When doing a selection with Shift-click, make sure that the selection anchor + is correct. -* Frontend News +- Avoid to overwrite end-of-proof character with text on screen (bug + 10344). -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 transfered to a branch because its development has -essentially stalled. +- Use proper dialog titles in InsetParams-derived dialogs (bug 10329). -* Change tracking enhancements +- Fix "scroll here" feature of scrollbar (bug 10311). -Major parts of the change tracking code were rewritten addressing -several problems that existed in the existing implementation. +- Fix the minimum size of the citation dialog on first time (bug 10019). -* Converter file cache +- When Enter does nothing (empty paragraph), do not record undo (bug 10089). -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 it can be enabled in the Preference -Settings dialog, in the Converters section or, if you want to use it, -add the line +- Remove duplicate context menu item for Argument insets (bug 10368). - \use_converter_cache true +- Fix display of vertical lines inside math matrices (bug 10363). -to your preferences file. -The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change -that with the line +* LYXHTML - \converter_cache_maxage xxx +- Enable export of external material (bug 8693). -where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. +- Fix problem with output of branches (bug 8022). -* Unified Windows installer +- Fix output of table borders (bug 10154). -The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding -both installers are welcome. +- Fix display of several math symbols (bug 8844). -* Minor user interface improvements +- Use scaling factor for export of images (bug 8742). -Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of -the user interface have been made, such as: +- Fix display of listings (bug 8362). - - 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 +- Fix output of floats, etc, inside environments (bug 9094). -* Under the hood +- Simplify XHTML output for floats, etc (bug 8605). -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. +- Add "dir='auto'" to body tag, which should help a lot with export of + RTL languages (bug 8279, partly). -** Bug fixes +- Fix display of cases and matrices (bugs 8753, 8755). -Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX -bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) +- Fixed output of logos to the TOC.