Public release of LyX version 1.4.2 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level [Windows and Mac OS X only]. - The windows installer has been completely rewritten. - A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be compressed on disk or not. - A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: 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, the Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. You can download LyX 1.4.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host the .bz2 versions): http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/ If you already have the LyX 1.4.1 sources, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.bz2 Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since some binary files have been added for this release. If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.2, 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/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org). Enjoy! The LyX team. What's new in version 1.4.2? ---------------------------- ** Updates - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017). - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed on disk or not. - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface. - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples). - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language. - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for IJMP D). - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533). - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter. - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures. - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in the math panel yet.) ** Bug fixes * User Interface: - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460). - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an acceptable UI. - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on an inset (bug 2526). - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash). - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported and makes LyX crash (bug 2597). - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular (bug 2603). - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now. - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language (bug 2476). - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in change tracking mode. - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents with different change tracking status (bug 2207). - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking markup due to the bug above (bug 2614). - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting multiple paragraphs (bug 2516). - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line (bug 2509). - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a table. - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604). - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure" error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029). - Paint the tabular background (bug fix). - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for the first misspelled word (bug 2218). - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675). - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only). - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10. * Math editor: - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc. (bug 2036). - Fix undo in matrices. - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655). * Document input/output: - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout files correctly. - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical position) from LyX 1.3 documents. - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149). - Load the tipa package automatically when needed. - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is active (bug 2214). - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore. - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions. - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546). - Update templates and examples to the latest file format. - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with pdflatex (bug 2235). - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes. - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623). * Miscellaneous: - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows) has also been pythonified. - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX support directory. - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences. - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support directory on Windows. - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not rename the executable files. - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with --with-version-suffix (bug 2285). - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces. - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also in the source package. - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows and Mac OS X. - Fix hyphens in man pages. - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on Windows. - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression support via zlib is now a requirement. - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
