Fifth prerelease of LyX 1.2.0
Ok, this will hopefully be the last (or next to last) prerelease before 1.2.0 proper is released. Since pre4 several small problems have been fixed, and a few bigger ones, but nothing major. There are still some small glitches, but nothing really bad. (knock wood) This prelease can be found at: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.0pre5.tar.gz But as always, this is a prelease and some caution is warranted. Backup your docs before trying this out. Please also read the README and UPGRADING. -- Lgb
Fifth prerelease of LyX 1.2.0
Ok, this will hopefully be the last (or next to last) prerelease before 1.2.0 proper is released. Since pre4 several small problems have been fixed, and a few bigger ones, but nothing major. There are still some small glitches, but nothing really bad. (knock wood) This prelease can be found at: ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.0pre5.tar.gz But as always, this is a prelease and some caution is warranted. Backup your docs before trying this out. Please also read the README and UPGRADING. -- Lgb
New LDN
http://www.lyx.org/news/20010117.php3 You know what to do -- go read it! Lgb
New LDN
http://www.lyx.org/news/20010117.php3 You know what to do -- go read it! Lgb
Release LyX 1.1.6
After too long in development we were finally able to release LyX 1.1.6. It won't be this long till next release (promises, promises...). As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code from the older development version. You can get it at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6.tar.gz RPM's will be provided later. Warning!: One warning before we list the new features: The file format in LyX 1.1.6 is not backwards compatible to 1.1.5 and previous versions, so you should be carefull before upgrading. - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups have been overhauled. - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your lyxrc settings. - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar. - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this will give you an idea of what is happening. Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it is visible without the need to enlarge the window! While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some features may not work right now, but at least it is much better than before. - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are mentioned here for your information - the menu entry File-New does not prompt for a file name by default (this can be changed in preferences). - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, -height, etc. Lars Gullik Bjnnes
Release LyX 1.1.6
After too long in development we were finally able to release LyX 1.1.6. It won't be this long till next release (promises, promises...). As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code from the older development version. You can get it at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6.tar.gz RPM's will be provided later. Warning!: One warning before we list the new features: The file format in LyX 1.1.6 is not backwards compatible to 1.1.5 and previous versions, so you should be carefull before upgrading. - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups have been overhauled. - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your lyxrc settings. - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar. - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this will give you an idea of what is happening. Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it is visible without the need to enlarge the window! While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some features may not work right now, but at least it is much better than before. - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are mentioned here for your information - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default (this can be changed in preferences). - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, -height, etc. Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Last prerelease of LyX 1.1.6
What is supposed to be the last prerelease before 1.1.6 proper has now been released. Even if there are no known serious bugs, please be clever and backup your LyX documents before tryinging it out. Especially since this version of LyX uses a fileformat that it not backwards compatible. Get the sources from: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6pre3.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6pre3.tar.gz Please try this out so that we can deliver a stable release that will be really stable. Highlights from LyX 1.1.6pre3: - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your lyxrc settings - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it is visible without the need to enlarge the window! - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). Lars Gullik Bjønnes LyX Source Maintainer
Last prerelease of LyX 1.1.6
What is supposed to be the last prerelease before 1.1.6 proper has now been released. Even if there are no known serious bugs, please be clever and backup your LyX documents before tryinging it out. Especially since this version of LyX uses a fileformat that it not backwards compatible. Get the sources from: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6pre3.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6pre3.tar.gz Please try this out so that we can deliver a stable release that will be really stable. Highlights from LyX 1.1.6pre3: - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your lyxrc settings - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it is visible without the need to enlarge the window! - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). Lars Gullik Bjønnes LyX Source Maintainer
prerelease 1.1.5pre1 is out.
The long awaited first prerelease of 1.1.5 is finally out. This is from news: Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. User-visible changes: - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt only and is likely to improve in future versions. - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable wrom the command-line/window: paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs. - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!). - Better definition for LyXList style. - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL support is of course not supported in older versions. - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. - Some commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created by lyx should be stored. A note on the file format change for protected spaces: If you load a document with protected spaces into LyX 1.1.5pre1 and save it, it will no longer load properly in 1.1.4. so remember to make a backup. If you forgot the backup please try this small sed script: sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' \ newformat.lyx oldformat.lyx (without the last '\' and on one line of course) You can get the last prerelease at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz I am sure rpm's will be announced soon. As always when trying out new versions, backup your documents. There has been some reports on crashing during cut paste and we are trying to track those down. So please try this prerelease and help us find the remaining errors. Lgb
prerelease 1.1.5pre1 is out.
The long awaited first prerelease of 1.1.5 is finally out. This is from news: Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. User-visible changes: - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt only and is likely to improve in future versions. - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable wrom the command-line/window: paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs. - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!). - Better definition for LyXList style. - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL support is of course not supported in older versions. - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. - Some commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created by lyx should be stored. A note on the file format change for protected spaces: If you load a document with protected spaces into LyX 1.1.5pre1 and save it, it will no longer load properly in 1.1.4. so remember to make a backup. If you forgot the backup please try this small sed script: sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' \ < newformat.lyx > oldformat.lyx (without the last '\' and on one line of course) You can get the last prerelease at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz I am sure rpm's will be announced soon. As always when trying out new versions, backup your documents. There has been some reports on crashing during cut & paste and we are trying to track those down. So please try this prerelease and help us find the remaining errors. Lgb
Second fix for LyX 1.1.4 available
This is patch-1.1.4fix2, which is the second maintenance patch against
LyX 1.1.4. Note that you should apply patch-1.1.4fix1 before
1.1.4fix2.
The purpose of these maintenance releases is to backport the small
bugs found during development in the latest stable release. All of the
fixes provided here have already been applied to our main cvs tree.
Do not let the size of this patch fool you: all the changes are
simple/trivial
fixes. The size of the patch cames from the configure script, which
has been
re-generated.
Since the changes in the configure script trigger some automake magic,
do the following to apply the patch
cd lyx-1.1.4pre1
make distclean
zcat patch-1.1.4fix2.gz | patch -p1
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in src/config.h.in
Then rebuild LyX as usual.
For all questions related to this patch, mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch fixes the following problems in LyX 1.1.4fix1 (these are in
fact bugs of LyX 1.1.4 which were not fixed by the 1.1.4fix1 patch):
- fix build problems on some architectures ('fl_gc' symbol not found)
- fix warnings about missing return type in X headers for some
gcc/egcs versions.
- fix parsing of LaTeX log files, where some errors got unnoticed.
- add support for textclasses with more than 128 layouts (yes some
people do that!)
- fix bug with filenames containing more that one "." (for example,
a.b.lyx was exported to a.ps).
- fix partly bug with bibtex files located in the directory of the
document (now using an absolute path works).
- fix bug in math editor, where greek letters (and some other
symbols) had too much spacing around them.
- remove function buffer-previous from binding files, since it is not
implemented.
Thanks to Jean-Marc for providing this.
the patch can be found at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.4fix2.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.4fix2.gz
Lgb
Second fix for LyX 1.1.4 available
This is patch-1.1.4fix2, which is the second maintenance patch against
LyX 1.1.4. Note that you should apply patch-1.1.4fix1 before
1.1.4fix2.
The purpose of these maintenance releases is to backport the small
bugs found during development in the latest stable release. All of the
fixes provided here have already been applied to our main cvs tree.
Do not let the size of this patch fool you: all the changes are
simple/trivial
fixes. The size of the patch cames from the configure script, which
has been
re-generated.
Since the changes in the configure script trigger some automake magic,
do the following to apply the patch
cd lyx-1.1.4pre1
make distclean
zcat patch-1.1.4fix2.gz | patch -p1
touch Makefile.in */Makefile.in src/config.h.in
Then rebuild LyX as usual.
For all questions related to this patch, mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch fixes the following problems in LyX 1.1.4fix1 (these are in
fact bugs of LyX 1.1.4 which were not fixed by the 1.1.4fix1 patch):
- fix build problems on some architectures ('fl_gc' symbol not found)
- fix warnings about missing return type in X headers for some
gcc/egcs versions.
- fix parsing of LaTeX log files, where some errors got unnoticed.
- add support for textclasses with more than 128 layouts (yes some
people do that!)
- fix bug with filenames containing more that one "." (for example,
a.b.lyx was exported to a.ps).
- fix partly bug with bibtex files located in the directory of the
document (now using an absolute path works).
- fix bug in math editor, where greek letters (and some other
symbols) had too much spacing around them.
- remove function buffer-previous from binding files, since it is not
implemented.
Thanks to Jean-Marc for providing this.
the patch can be found at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.4fix2.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.4fix2.gz
Lgb
