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
Re: Last prerelease of LyX 1.1.6
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:41:32AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > What is supposed to be the last prerelease before 1.1.6 proper has now > been released. [...] There are now RPM packages on my ftp server (ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx). ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan Sylvan Associates, Inc. http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan
