--- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to echo the praise for LyX given earlier. I > I've used LyX in > lecture and they are impressed with the quick entry > of equations, > promptly followed by a legible on-screen preview of > the equations. > It's a wonderful tool.
Can you give some more information about this? It sounds very useful > > A. Scottedward Hodel, 334 844-1854, fax 334 844-1809 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~hodelas > > > > On May 18, 2007, at 9:27 AM, José Matos wrote: > > > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) > > =================================== > > > > We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 > (beta 3). > > > > Compared with the previous beta release we have > fixed several bugs > > and added some improvements, namely a new inset to > support code > > listings. > > > > We have enabled the converter file cache by > default. > > > > Internally we have renamed files to follow a > consistent name pattern, > > this will allow an easier navigation of the source > code thus > > simplifying > > bug fixing. > > > > 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. > > > > 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 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 > > > > > > 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 and > > the > > Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. > > > > You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are > compressed with > > bzip2, which yields smaller files): > > > > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz > > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2 > > > > Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is > provided to upgrade > > from version 1.4.4. > > > > Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, > Mac OS X and Windows > > installers) should soon be available at > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/ > > > > > > If you find what you think is a bug in LyX > 1.5.0beta3, 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/. If you > can't find the > > answer there, > > e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ > lists.lyx.org). > > > > Enjoy! > > > > The LyX team. > > > > > > What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)? > > ---------------------------- > > > > * Unicode > > > > 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. > > > > * Integrated CJK support > > > > The very first result of the Unicode transition is > that we have > > finally > === message truncated === Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
