Rajil Saraswat wrote:
> How much usable it is, searching through the archives shows that it was
> not much usable two months ago, has the state improved? Is there any
> release plan for this?
Hi, Rajil. I would say that it is certainly possible to play with it, but I
would definitely be wary about using it for real work. Not least because of
the gradual creep in the file format which makes it difficult to back out
and return to using 1.3.x. Jos� has been convinced that a lyx2lyx going
back from 1.4.x format to 1.3.x is a good thing, so keep your fingers
crossed.
As for the code itself? Well it doesn't crash too much anymore. (ie, not all
the time ;-) That said, there are 40-50 documented regressions apparently.
Many are to do with navigation through the document (cursor movement etc)
and are probably irritating rather than terminal. These regressions are
symptoms of Andr�'s riping out of a large chunk of the old core code,
replacing it with something much more like that of the math editor. So the
augaries are that it'll come good eventually. In fact, we appear to be in a
period of calm; people are trying to fix the bugs rather than continue the
ripping.
Of course, there are lots and lots of new goodies to tempt you. For example:
* Multiple toolbars. Enter a math or a table inset and the relevant toolbar
will appear automagically, if you've configured the gui to do this.
* Change tracking.
* Graphics are loaded in a less intrusive, serial fashion rather than
(possibly) swamping the machine with multiple conversion processes
executing in parallel.
* A new 'branches' inset allowing you to write a document like
Some text
[Branch: French][quelque chose en fran�ais.]
Some more text
[Branch: German][...willst du Deutsch sprechen?]
...
You can now output either the German or the French. Or even both or neither.
Think of a question paper with or without solutions...
* The external inset can now do pretty well everything that the graphics
inset can do (ie display the contents as a graphic on the LyX screen), but
it'll work with xfig images, chess layouts, pretty well anything.
Eventually, the graphics inset will probably be swallowed up inside the
external inset.
Probably lots of other stuff too...
--
Angus
