-Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
+Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.
+We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
-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!
+It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
+this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
+summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
+you want to know more.
-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.
+As usual with major releases, 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.
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 1.4.0 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.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
+the .bz2 versions):
-Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
-available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
+ http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
-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
+Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
+
+Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
+installers) should soon be available at
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
+
+
+If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, 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
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://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
+e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ 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.
+
+What's new in version 1.4.0?
+----------------------------
+
+** Improved user interface
+
+LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
+clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
+menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
+the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
+classic UI) is still available, for now.
+
+It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
+editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
+the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
+extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
+available: one for tables, and one for math.
+
+Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
+toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
+table.
+
+** Change tracking
+
+This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
+makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
+changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
+changes.
+
+** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
+
+The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
+and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
+parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
+much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
+
+** Character styles
+
+For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
+logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
+omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
+addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
+styles.
+
+
+** Branches
+
+The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
+seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
+document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
+
+That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
+"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
+more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
+
+** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+
+In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
+use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
+GUI
+
+** Notes
+
+LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
+the Insert>Note menu:
+
+- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
+- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
+ further.
+- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
+ well, greyed-out text.
+
+** Better language and numbering on screen
+
+Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+
+- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
+ the language of the document, which may be different from the
+ language of the menus;
+- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
+ document class specifications.
+
+** Word count
+
+Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
+count of the document or of the current selection.
+
+** Error Lists
+
+Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
+of errors popping up at compilation time.
+
+** Improved bibliography support
+
+- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
+ "before citation" field is supported;
+- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
+ flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
+ and law fields;
+- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
+- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
+ index processor is invoked).
+
+** Improved microtypography support
+
+LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+
+- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
+ between "e." and "g.");
+- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
+ style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
+- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
+ improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
+ much space between figure/table and caption.
+
+** Small bits
+
+- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+
+- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
+ pdf generation
+
+- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
+ edit the included figure
+
+- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
+ has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+2006-01-19 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
+
+ * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): do not distribute INSTALL.OS2 and
+ README.OS2.
+
+ * ANNOUNCE:
+ * README:
+ * INSTALL: a first update for 1.4.0.
+
2006-01-04 Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu>
* INSTALL.MacOSX: update.
----------------------
If you have checked this out from CVS, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+* automake >= 1.9
* autoconf >= 2.52
* gettext >= 0.12
Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
flags:
o --with-frontend=FRONTEND that allows to specify which frontend you
- want to use. Default is "xforms", and the other possible value is
- "qt".
+ want to use. There is no default value: this switch is required.
o --with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY that specifies the path where LyX will
find extra libraries (Xpm, xforms, qt) it needs. Defaults to NONE
directories, separated by colons.
o --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY that gives the place where LyX will find
- xforms headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
+ extra headers. Defaults to NONE (i.e. search in standard places).
You can specify several directories, separated by colons.
o --with-extra-prefix[=DIRECTORY] that is equivalent to
--with-extra-lib=DIRECTORY/lib --with-extra-inc=DIRECTORY/include
If DIRECTORY is not specified, the current prefix is used.
- o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.3.1
- The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.3.1/.
+ o --with-version-suffix will install LyX as lyx-<version>, e.g. lyx-1.4.1
+ The LyX data directory will be something like <whatever>/lyx-1.4.1/.
Additionally your user configuration files will be found in e.g.
- $HOME/.lyx-1.3.1
+ $HOME/.lyx-1.4.1
You can use this feature to install more than one version of LyX
on the same system. You can optionally specify a "version" of your
optimization of LyX. The compile may be much quicker with some
compilers, but LyX will run more slowly.
- o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
- requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
- debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
- for development versions and prereleases only.
-
There are also flags to control the internationalization support in
LyX:
In particular, the following options could be useful in some desperate
cases:
+ o --enable-debug will add debug information to your binary. This
+ requires a lot more disk space, but is a must if you want to try to
+ debug problems in LyX. The default is to have debug information
+ for development versions and prereleases only.
+
o --enable-warnings that make the compiler output more warnings during
the compilation of LyX. Opposite is --disable-warnings. By default,
this flag is on for development versions only.
is --disable-assertions. By default, this flag is on for
development versions only.
+ o --enable-stdlib-debug adds some debug code in the standard
+ library; this slows down the code, but has been helpful in the
+ past to find bugs. By default, this flag is on for development
+ versions only.
+
+ o --enable-concept-checks adds some compile-time checks. There is no
+ run-time penalty. By default, this flag is on for development
+ versions only.
+
o --without-latex-config that disables the automatic detection of your
latex configuration. This detection is automatically disabled if
latex cannot be found. If you find that you have to use this
architectures. If you find that some of this hints are wrong, please
notify us.
- o If you have problems indicating that configure cannot find a part of
- the xforms or Xpm library, use the --with-extra-lib and --with-extra-inc
- options of configure to specify where these libraries reside.
-
- o Configure will seemingly fail to find xpm.h and forms.h on linux
- if the kernel headers are not available. Two cases are possible:
-
- - you have not installed the kernel sources. Then you should
- install them or at least the kernel-headers package (or
- whatever it is called in your distribution).
-
- - you have the sources, but you did a 'make mrproper' in the
- kernel directory (this this removes some symbolic links that
- are needed for compilation). A 'make symlinks' in linux kernel
- sources fixes that.
-
- o if you are using RedHat Linux 7.x, you must make sure you have the
- latest updated gcc and related packages installed (at least -85),
- or LyX will not compile or will be mis-compiled.
-
o On SUN Sparc Solaris 8, you need gnumake. The LyX makefiles do not
work with Solaris make.
SUBDIRS = config development intl po src sourcedoc lib
endif
-EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.OS2 INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
- INSTALL.MacOSX README.OS2 README.Win32 \
+EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE INSTALL.autoconf INSTALL.Win32 \
+ INSTALL.MacOSX README.Win32 \
UPGRADING lyx.man autogen.sh
man_MANS = lyx.1
What is LyX?
- LyX is an advanced, open-source "document processor". Unlike
- standard word processors, LyX encourages writing based on the
- structure of your documents, not their appearance. It lets you
- concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the
- software.
-
- You can read more about this concept in the documentation,
- which you'll find under the Help menu. If you plan to use LyX,
- you really should read about it to be able to make the best of
- it.
-
-What is LyX not?
-
- LyX is not just another word processor that claims to be a
- Desktop Publishing program. It's a more modern way of
- creating documents that look much nicer, but without wasting
- time with layout-fiddling. For these reasons you might need
- a little time to get used to the differences.
- If you are looking for a free Desktop Publishing program for
- Unix, you will be disappointed.
+ 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 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.
+
+ 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.
What do I need to run LyX?
- Either of :
- * a Unix-like system (or Windows with cygwin, OS/2 with XFree)
- with at least X11R5
- * Windows 98 or newer
- * Mac OS 10.2 or newer
+ Either of :
+ * a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin)
+ * Windows 98 or newer
+ * Mac OS 10.2 or newer
- A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX for unix) not older
- than 1995/12/01.
- Python 1.5.2 or later to convert old LyX files
+ A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX for unix) not older
+ than 1995/12/01.
+ Python 1.5.2 or later to convert old LyX files
How does the LyX version scheme work?
- LyX uses a continuous numbering scheme in which odd or
- even numbering is not significant. Instead a number '1.x.y'
- indicates stable release '1.x', fix level 'y'. Prereleases
- are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
- file names:
-
- lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz -- stable release
- lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
- 1.4 stable release
- lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
-
- The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
- goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
- kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather to
- include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us
- is not too high) and safe (so that system administrators can
- install them without fear) bug fixes. Experience shows that
- these releases will contain a few new features, and that the
- bulk of the patches will be documentation updates.
-
- If you get the source from cvs, the version string will look like
- one of:
-
- 1.4.1cvs -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
- release 1.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
- 1.5.0cvs -- this is the main branch on which stable
- release 1.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
+ LyX uses a continuous numbering scheme in which odd or
+ even numbering is not significant. Instead a number '1.x.y'
+ indicates stable release '1.x', fix level 'y'. Prereleases
+ are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
+ file names:
+
+ lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz -- stable release
+ lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
+ 1.4 stable release
+ lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
+
+ The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
+ goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
+ kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather to
+ include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us
+ is not too high) and safe (so that system administrators can
+ install them without fear) bug fixes. Experience shows that
+ these releases will contain a few new features, and that the
+ bulk of the patches will be documentation updates.
+
+ If you get the source from cvs, the version string will look like
+ one of:
+
+ 1.4.1cvs -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
+ release 1.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
+ 1.5.0cvs -- this is the main branch on which stable
+ release 1.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
What's new?
- Read NEWS.
-
-How do I install .tar.gz a binary distribution of LyX?
-
- Unpack it and run it. We recommend unpacking it in /usr/local,
- but it should work anywhere. In particular, you can try LyX
- in a temporary directory 'my_bin' before installing permanently
- by typing "my_bin/lyx".
-
- You should read the notes regarding this particular build in
- the file README.bin.
+ Read NEWS.
How do I upgrade from an earlier LyX version?
- Read the file UPGRADING for info on this subject.
+ Read the file UPGRADING for info on this subject.
What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
- * A good C++ compiler. Development is being done mainly with
- gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.4.0, you need at
- least gcc 3.x.
+ * A good C++ compiler. Development is being done mainly with
+ gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.4.0, you need at
+ least gcc 3.x.
- Either:
- * The Xforms library, version 1.0.
- * LibXpm, version 4.7 or newer.
+ Either:
+ * The Xforms library, version 1.0.
+ * LibXpm, version 4.7 or newer.
- Or:
- * The Qt library, version 3.0 or newer (although version 2.3
- may work).
+ Or:
+ * The Qt library, version 3.0 or newer (although version 2.3
+ may work).
- Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
+ Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
Okay, I've installed LyX. What now?
- Once you've installed it, and everything looks fine, go read
- the "Introduction" item under the Help menu. You should follow
- the instructions there, which tell you to read (or at least skim)
- the Tutorial. After that, you should also read "Help>LaTeX
- configuration" which provides info on your LaTeX configuration
- as LyX sees it. You might be missing a package or two that you'd
- like to have.
+ Once you've installed it, and everything looks fine, go read
+ the "Introduction" item under the Help menu. You should follow
+ the instructions there, which tell you to read (or at least skim)
+ the Tutorial. After that, you should also read "Help>LaTeX
+ configuration" which provides info on your LaTeX configuration
+ as LyX sees it. You might be missing a package or two that you'd
+ like to have.
- User-level configuration is possible via the Edit>Preferences menu.
+ User-level configuration is possible via the Tools>Preferences menu.
Does LyX have support for non-English speakers/writers/readers?
- Yes. LyX supports writing in many languages, including
- right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. There is a port
- of LyX named CJK-LyX which adds support for Chinese, Korean
- and Japanese (http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html)
-
- Menus and error messages have been translated to the following
- languages (* means there are language-specific keyboard menu
- bindings as well):
-
- French (fr)
- Spanish (es)
- Italian (it)
- Danish (da)
- Basque (eu)
- Nynorsk (nn)
- Finnish (fi) *
- German (de) *
- Russian (ru)
- Polish (pl)
- Slovak (sk)
- Slovenian (sl)
- Romanian (ro)
- Norwegian (no)
- Dutch (nl)
-
- Keymaps can ease typing in one or more of the following languages:
-
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Czech
- French, Swiss French
- German, Swiss German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian (Magyar)
- Latvian
- Polish
- Portugese
- Romanian
- Slovenian
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
+ Yes. LyX supports writing in many languages, including
+ right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. There is a port
+ of LyX named CJK-LyX which adds support for Chinese, Korean
+ and Japanese (http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html)
+
+ Menus and error messages have been translated to 17 languages.
+ For the status of the different translations, see
+ http://www.lyx.org/devel/i18n.php
+
+ Keymaps can ease typing in many languages.
Internet resources of relevance to LyX
- The LyX homepage contains valuable information about LyX and the
- various LyX mailing lists, as well as links to mirrors and other
- LyX homepages around the world:
- http://www.lyx.org/
+ The LyX homepage contains valuable information about LyX and the
+ various LyX mailing lists, as well as links to mirrors and other
+ LyX homepages around the world:
+ http://www.lyx.org/
- The LyX Wiki is the place where users can share information on
- setting up and using LyX.
- http://wiki.lyx.org/
+ The LyX Wiki is the place where users can share information on
+ setting up and using LyX.
+ http://wiki.lyx.org/
- The main LyX archive site:
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
+ The main LyX archive site:
+ ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
- The LyX Development page has information about the development
- effort. LyX is under CVS control, so you can get the very
- latest sources from there at any time.
- http://www.devel.lyx.org/
- ftp://www.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
+ The LyX Development page has information about the development
+ effort. LyX is under CVS control, so you can get the very
+ latest sources from there at any time.
+ http://www.lyx.org/devel
+ ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/
How do I submit a bug report?
- If possible, read the Introduction found under the Help menu in LyX.
- You'll find detailed info on submitting bug reports there.
+ If possible, read the Introduction found under the Help menu in LyX.
+ You'll find detailed info on submitting bug reports there.
- If you can't do that, send details to the LyX Developers' mailing
- list, or use the LyX bug tracker at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/.
- Don't forget to mention which version you are having problems with!
+ If you can't do that, send details to the LyX Developers' mailing
+ list, or use the LyX bug tracker at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/.
+ Don't forget to mention which version you are having problems with!
How can I participate in the development of LyX?
- Any help with the development of LyX is greatly appreciated ---
- after all, LyX wouldn't be what it is today without the help
- of volunteers. We need your help!
-
- If you want to work on LyX, you should contact the developer's
- mailing list for discussion on how to do your stuff. LyX is being
- cleaned up, and therefore it's important to follow some rules.
- Read about those rules in development/Code_rules/.
-
- If you don't know C++, there are many other ways to
- contribute. Write documentation. Help to internationalize LyX
- by translating documentation or menus/error messages, or by
- writing a new keymap. Write a new textclass. Find bugs (but
- please read the list of known bugs first). Contribute money.
- Or just offer feature suggestions (but please read the online
- TODO list first).
+ Any help with the development of LyX is greatly appreciated ---
+ after all, LyX wouldn't be what it is today without the help
+ of volunteers. We need your help!
+
+ If you want to work on LyX, you should contact the developer's
+ mailing list for discussion on how to do your stuff. LyX is being
+ cleaned up, and therefore it's important to follow some rules.
+ Read about those rules in development/Code_rules/.
+
+ If you don't know C++, there are many other ways to
+ contribute. Write documentation. Help to internationalize LyX
+ by translating documentation or menus/error messages, or by
+ writing a new keymap. Write a new textclass. Find bugs (but
+ please read the list of known bugs first). Contribute money.
+ Or just offer feature suggestions (but please read the online
+ TODO list first).
Thank you for trying LyX. We appreciate your feedback in the mailing
lists.
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