X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=56c0535792a125316be2ac63cdcc71fb02e91881;hb=4a75fe0310ac64a079edab0c07d8f8eebaf519c0;hp=0e599d2827bc0530125a83bc9f9434d3a32d749a;hpb=eb00187fea56bdcb940131f5c99da9fa3e01ab35;p=lyx.git diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 0e599d2827..56c0535792 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,169 +1,69 @@ -Public release of LyX version 1.3.0 -=================================== +Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 3) +========================================================= -We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0. +We are pleased to announce the third release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. -As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new -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! +LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 14 months of hard work since the +release of the LyX 1.5 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the +result. + +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. + +The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 + +The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release +compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.5.6). An updated list of +issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes -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. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: - LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an - approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their - appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of - visual layout to the software. + 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. - LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under - Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface - and therefore need an X server. + 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. -You can download LyX 1.3.0 here : + 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. - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz + 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. -and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors : +You can download LyX 1.6.0rc3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, +which yields smaller files): - ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz - ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc3.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0rc3.tar.bz2 +Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade +from version 1.5.6. -Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be -available at - ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0 +Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows +installers) should soon be available at + ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ -If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either -e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org), or open +If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.0rc3, you may either +e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question, -first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list -(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there. +first check out http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/. If you can't find the answer there, +e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. - - -New features -============ - -** Qt frontend - -This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports -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. - -** Xforms frontend - -The advent 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, because we have had more 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. -In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5. -Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next -release. You have been warned ;-) - -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. - -** Gnome frontend - -Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly -stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We -strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the -developer's list. - -** 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. 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, ensuring that the -rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. 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 a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the -visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of -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 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 -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: - -- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { } - in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{. - -- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change - will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without - removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument" - like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of - the inset and press 'backspace'. - -** Reading old files - -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 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. - -** Miscellaneous changes - -- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math - equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to - configure your font server). - -- 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 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 - spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check - multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries - installed. - -