Public release of LyX version 1.4.1
===================================
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.1. This is a bug fix
release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
- fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
- fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with LyX/
Mac.
- fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
- let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows installer.
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 1.4.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.1.tar.bz2
and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which
will also host
the .bz2 versions):
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/
lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/
If you already have the LyX 1.4.0 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.1.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 1.4.1, 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 1.4.1?
----------------------------
** Updates
- Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
(bug 880).
- Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
- Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
- Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
LaTeXConfig.lyx.
** Bug fixes
* Document input/output:
- Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
- Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
- Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
caption (bug 675).
- Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
- Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's
pdflatex.
- Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed
(bug 2234).
- Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
- Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
lyx2lyx (bug 2245).
- Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
- Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
- Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
- Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
- Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
complete fix will go in 1.4.2
* Math editor:
- Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
- Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
- Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
- Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
math (bug 2485).
- Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
in a cell.
- Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
- Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox
inset (math).
- Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
- Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
* User Interface:
- Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac
(bug 2195)
- Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
- Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after
paragraph
deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
- Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
- Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
- Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
- Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
- Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions
(bug 1999).
- Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
- Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug
2246).
- Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
line/document start/end (bug 2298).
- Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
- Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
- Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
- Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
- Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
- Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
- Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog
(bug 783).
- Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
- Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
- Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore
when the
file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
- Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
* Configuration/Installation:
- Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin,
since
Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
- Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
