Re: new pre

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Lars> This will hopefully be the last prerelease before 1.0.0
Lars> proper. I'd like everyone to _carefully_ try this out.

Great. So this is what we can call the Xmas release. What about
releasing 1.0.0 on 1 of January at 00:00. Any volunteer to be in front
of a computer at that time? 

JMarc

Announce: LyX 1.1.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

I am glad to announce the official release of LyX 1.1.1, which marks a
turning point in the development of LyX. While it does not have many
new features, there have been lots of internal changes, many of which
have been backported from our old development branch (which is now
extinct). While on the surface this version is very similar to
version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. 

As a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in. 
I mean it.

A few new user-visible features have been added since version 1.0.4:

- Preliminary export to HTML feature (with tth program)

- All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.

- normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
  a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
  to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.

- the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
  to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
  override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.

As usual, version 1.1.1 can be found in the following places:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org:/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.1.tar.gz

No patches this time, since there have been very a large reorganisation
of the sources.

While this version is certainly not as stable as we would like it to
be, we urge you to try it out and report all problems. It is planned
to release a bug-fix 1.1.2 as soon as possible.

JMarc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

ANNOUNCE LyX 1.1.4fix1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

I am glad to announce the availability of the LyX 1.1.4fix1 patch. See
the information enclosed below. One notable missing fix in this patch
is for the bibtex problems mentionned on the lyx-devel list. I hope to
fix that soon.

JMarc

---
This is patch-1.1.4fix1, which should be applied to a fresh lyx 1.1.4
archive. The purpose of this patch is to provide some simple fixes to
LyX 1.1.4 to ease the wait until the next stable release. It is _not_
the purpose of this patch to add new features or somehow `branch' the
development of LyX (all the features provided by this patch are
already in main cvs). It should probably be applied to binary
distributions of LyX 1.1.4, since it offers better stability.

This should not be considered as an official LyX release, but rather
as an additional service to the LyX users community. All questions
specific to this patch should be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This patch fixes the following problems in LyX 1.1.4:

 - fix character \"{e} in latin1 encoding
 - fix problem when running latex on files which have accented
   characters in their names  
 - add support for dvi previewers which do not support the -paper
   option (like yap on NT)
 - fix oneside/twoside options in Layout->Document
 - fix crash when trying to select a layout which does not exist

Announce: LyX 1.1.4fix3

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

I am glad to announce LyX 1.1.4fix3, which is the third maintenance
patch against LyX 1.1.4. Note that you should apply patch-1.1.4fix1
and patch-1.1.4fix2 before 1.1.4fix3.

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.

You can get it at
  ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.1.4fix3.gz
  ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.4fix3.gz
and soon on mirror sites.

Have fun.
JMarc


Problems fixed by this patch:
-

This patch fixes the following problems in LyX 1.1.4fix2 (these are in
fact bugs of LyX 1.1.4 which were not fixed by the 1.1.4fix[12] patches):

 * LyX often crashed after repeated use of the backspace key. This problem
   actually existed since long ago in the program, but did not strike very
   often before version 1.1.4. This is probably the main reason why
   you will want to apply this patch.
 * error insets were not removed correctly, which caused the removal or
   nearby characters in the documents. This is a serious problem too.
 * filenames for images in docbook mode where truncated
 * font tags for SGML output were wrong.
 * -lintl was not added on the link list when compiling on system
   which have gettext installed, but not in libc. 
 * one header file contained C++ comments, whereas it is compiled with a
   C compiler.



Prebuilt Linux binaries:


As usual Kayvan A. Sylvan has prepared Linux RPMs. The lyx-1.1.4 RPMS are:

ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.4-fix3.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/tetex-lyx-1.1.4-fix3.i386.rpm

Those two RPMS are the only ones most people will need to install.

Additional RPMS (for those who want to rebuild from a source RPM or
who want to install a debuggable binary):

ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.4-fix3.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/lyxgdb-1.1.4-fix3.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/lyxgdb-1.1.4-fix3.src.rpm



Building by hand:
-

Since the changes in the configure script trigger some automake magic, 
do the following to apply the patch

cd lyx-1.1.4pre2
make distclean
zcat patch-1.1.4fix3.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]

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Dear LyX users,

It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release
sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability,
all in one package!

Lots of internal code has been 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.

We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.

You can get it at:
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz

As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from
 ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/

Have fun!

JMarc




User-visible changes:

- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.

- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.

- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.

- multilingual documents (preliminary support)

- 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 from the
  command-line/window:
  paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]

- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
  in the margin for margin notes has been removed). 

- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.

- labels are now editable (not in equations, though).

- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).

- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
  earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
  errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
  (And you probably had the error always.)

- Better definition for LyXList style.

- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
  LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)

- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)

- 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 command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
  (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)

- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
  use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)

- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
  screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
  by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether 
  lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true). 

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5fix1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Dear LyX users,

The time has finally come to release LyX 1.1.5fix1 (aka "The quick
brown fix jumped over the lazy bugs" release). It has taken a lot of
time, but many fixes have been done, while the work on next major
version 1.1.6 continues to go on at full steam.

Basically, 1.1.5fix1 is a bugfix release. It contains however a few
new features (mostly things which used to work in 1.1.4). Note that
there is now a mechanism to create binary distributions. Feel free to
contribute yours :) 

You can get it at:
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.5fix1.tar.gz
 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5fix1.tar.gz

Binary RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 are available at
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.5fix1/lyx-1.1.5fix1-1.i386.rpm (soon)
 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5fix1-1.i386.rpm

JMarc



What's new
==

** New features [yes I know there should not be new features, but these
   were almost bugs]

- New lyxrc command \set_color, to set the colors of the GUI elements
  in the document [a functionality present in 1.1.4, but not in 1.1.5]

- New lyxrc command \wheel_jump that sets the amount of text skipped
  when using a mouse wheel [the behaviour of 1.1.5 was unintentionnaly
  different from 1.1.4, now you can choose what you want]

- new Makefile target "bindist", so that we can try again to have
  binary distributions of LyX. [As was possible in 1.0.x versions]

- add 'Reset' option to language choice.

- better support for arabic points.

** Bugfixes

- fix crash in lyxsum() when running LaTeX (with older stream libraries).

- fix crash in the spellchecker (with older stream libraries).

- fix two crashes related to clipboard

- fix problem with tables when reading msdos-encoded lyx files.

- fix crash when closing index popup from window manager.

- make sure the .kmap files exist when a keymap is specified.

- better dependency for latex runs.

- fix disappearing cursor in some situations

- fix bug in configure where installation would fail in the reLyX
  directory in some cases.

- fix build problems on AIX and Solaris.

- fix bug in the install-strip Makefile target

** Other: documentation update, UI translation updates. 

Remaining problems
==

These are bugs which are probably small, and appeared recently. Good
clients for a fix release. Note that they exist in 1.1.6 too, so we'll
have to fix them eventually. Please send me references to the ones I
forgot. 

- When the cursor is between two spaces, then the Shift-Cursor
  selection keys will lead to a mangled selection (on screen)
  http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg12431.html

- the documentation should be reviewed to indicate the 1.1.5fix1 is a
  stable release (should some english-speaking volunteer have a look?).

- bad karma between \noindent and Description
  http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg11759.html

- the --with-lyxname switch of configure still does not work. It just
  a matter of convincing automake to do what we want...

patch-1.1.5fix1.gz (better late than never)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Hello,

After several requests, we have made available from the usual places
the file patch-1.1.5fix1.gz to upgrade LyX 1.1.5 source to 1.1.5fix1.
Note that this patch does not change the .gmo files (compiled
translation of the UI, which are binary files). This means that, if
you do not have the proper gettext tools installed, the fixes to the
UI translations will not be applied.

The "usual places" are:
 ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.1.5fix1.gz
 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/patch-1.1.5fix1.gz

JMarc

[Annonce] Nouvelle liste francophone lyx-fr

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

[If you cannot read french, you are probably not interested in this
message anyway. Sorry for the waste of bandwidth]

Bonjour,

Une nouvelle liste de diffusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] vient d'être
créée. Son but est de fournir un point de rencontre à la communauté
francophone d'utilisateurs de LyX. En particulier, nous espérons
qu'elle permettra d'accélérer le processus de traduction de
l'interface et de la documentation de LyX en français, et de discuter
les problèmes propres à l'écriture de documents français.

Pour souscrire a cette liste, envoyez un message (vide) a
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

La liste sera archivée à
  http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-fr@lists.lyx.org/

Il y a aussi une version « digest » de la liste, à laquelle vous
pouvez vous abonner en envoyant un message à
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

À bientôt sur lyx-fr, je l'espère...

JMarc

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.6fix1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Hello all,

It is my pleasure to announce that LyX 1.1.6fix1 has been released
today. This is a maintenance release which fixes some important bugs
in 1.1.6, and updates a few things, in particular in the
documentation. There are still a number of known bugs we'd like to fix
soon, so expect that fix2 will not take too long.

You can get it at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6fix1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6fix1.tar.gz

Some linux RPMs and a patch will be provided later.

JMarc

What's new
==

** Updates

- updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
  translations; updated danish translation of the interface.

- better support for ukrainian language

- non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
  working --with-lyx-suffix.

- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
  line-delete-forward. 

- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.

- Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.

** Bugfixes

- fix broken keymaps

- fix locales problems which causes use of ',' instead of '.' as a
  number separator.

- fix bug in reading integers with some older C++ compiler (gcc 2.8.1,
  egcs 1.0.x).

- fix crash when using the bibliography layout in included document.

- fix crash in Preferences when no format is defined (in particular
  when upgrading from earlier stable versions).

- fix the color picker in Preferences for displays with 32bit display
  depth. 

- Fix crash when loading corrupt math equations.

- fix crash when inserting label in an equation.

- fix generation of default keys for bibliography insets.

- update the screen after editing a bibliography inset.

- fix compilation problems with gcc 2.95.3

- fix problems with sorting of available formats in menus.

- suppress the cucumber in the startup banner

- remove spurious debugging messages

- fixes to popups

- fix problems with protected spaces in spanish documents

- fix creation of new Include insets

- fix an initialization problem for the font encoding (one symptom is
  that french-style quotes were not displayed correctly) 

- fix generated LaTeX code when changing the alignment of a section
  heading.

- fix display glitches in math editor

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.1.6fix2

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Hello,

The long overdue second update to LyX 1.1.6 has finally been released.
It fixes a lot of annoying or severe bugs, but also features
documentation updates, as well as DocBook support improvements.

Note that this version does not fix all the tabular problems
experienced by LyX 1.1.6 users. Many of these problems have been fixed
in our development tree, but require changes too important to be part
of a fix release.

You can get it at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz

The patch is available at

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.1.6fix2.tar.gz

RPMs for Redhat Linux are at 

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix2/lyx-1.1.6fix2-1.i386.rpm

Don't let the size of this patch alarm you. It is 90% translation
updates (both documentation and localization of menus), so the changes
to the code are small and safe.

As always, if you have a problem, remember that the answer is "42". If
this does not help, feel free to contact the mailing-list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] And, more than ever,

\begin{largefriendlyletters}
  Dont Panic!
\end{largefriendlyletters}

JMarc

What's new
==

** Updates

- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.

- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
  to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
  install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)

- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
  documentation update.

- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support


** Bugfixes

- fix selection problems in tabular cells

- fix crash in tabular after inserting a column/cell

- lower a bit the memory consumption of large tabulars

- fix bug with cursor when inserting Greek characters

- fix a bug where bibtex was not always run when needed

- fix a babel error after changing the language of the document

- Fix (local) language changing in latex files.

- Added options for disabling babel and passing language options only
  to babel (not supported in preferences)

- fix crash after running Edit->Reconfigure

- fix printing when no spool command has been specified

- fix problem with wrong latex output for borders in multicolumns

- in LaTeX output, only add {} before a quote if it is needed to avoid
  a bogus ?` or !` ligature.

- when the cursor is before a space and you break the paragraph into two by
  pressing enter, delete the space instead keeping it as the last char
  of the paragraph. 

- fix font bug when joining to paragraph with backspace

- fix figure previewing when the suffix has been removed from the
  filename

- fix reading of log file when not using a temporary directory

- fix permission of temporary files to be readable only by user

- when the "toggle all these" checkbox was on in the character popup,
  it applied incorrectly to the size setting. This is fixed now

- do not save files when running with no gui

- fix display of character shortcuts in minibuffer

- fix problem with the PACS, keywords and preprint layouts in revtex4

- fix compilation on HP-UX 10.20

- fix compilation problem with gcc 2.95.3 and --with-included-string

- add support for gcc 3.0 pre-releases

- update sigc++ distribution; disable threads support by default in sigc++

- fix some Makefile problems in po directory when using non-GNU tools

- fix permissions of lib/configure and lib/configure.cmd at install
  time

- fix problem with reLyX and RPM relocation

Re: [n.werner@webcrew.de: lyx-1.1.6fix2.ppc.rpm]

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Kayvan> Thanks to Niklas Werner, the ppc RPMs for 1.1.6fix2 are now
Kayvan> available. Enjoy!

It is now on the main ftp site in bin/1.1.6fix2/

JMarc

Sonsorship for 5th LyX Developpers Meeting

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

The LyX team is happy to announce the sponsorship of the next LyX
Developers Meeting (to be hold in Bozen in northern Italy between the
21st and the 26th of June) by the CCP2000 Organizing Committee.
CCP2000 is a conference on Computational Physics, which took place in
December 2000 in Australia.

In their own words: 
  "  This is a small gesture, to give some recognition to the
   excellent work that the LyX team has carried out in their efforts
   to provide a useful and free document preparation tool to the world.
   
 Since many physicists have found [LyX] valuable - and more
   will in the future - it is only reasonable that we can try to help you get
   together to improve LyX. It is also a way to say thanks to Allan Rae. "

Allan Rae is one of the LyX developers. He gave a talk about LyX during
CCP2000, furthering the recognition LyX already has in the scientific world
for document preparation. 

The LyX Team thanks the CCP2000 Organizing Committee for their kind
support. At the meeting, we will be working on LaTeX import/export as
per their request.

For the LyX team,
JMarc

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.1.6fix4

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Dear LyX lovers,

It seems time has come for a final fix release to LyX 1.1.6. The first
preversion of 1.2.0 is around the corner (yes, we promise!), but
before having fun with exciting new feature, we thought we could propose
you a boring old fashioned stable version. 

The new version is faster with large files, fixes some old problems
with selections which could eventually lead to a crash, the infamous
"Greek characters do not display" bug on mandrake Linux and a lot of
other annoyances. There are even a (few) new features!  So, what are you
waiting for?

Standard 1.1.6 disclaimer: this version does not fix all the tabular
problems experienced by LyX 1.1.6 users. Many of these problems have
been fixed in our development tree, but require changes too important
to be part of a fix release.

You can get it at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.6fix4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.6fix4.tar.gz

The patch is available at

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.1.6fix4.gz

RPMs for Redhat Linux are at 

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.1.6fix4/lyx-1.1.6fix4-1.i386.rpm


What's new
==

** Updates

- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings

- change the encoding for Estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
  appears to be more suitable.

- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
  This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding

- add support for dvipdfm

- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
  extension `.lyx' is added if necessary

- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
  tokens in the file

- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class

- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
  slightly updated

- updates to the introduction document and the Italian user guide

- updates to the Russian, Finnish and Hebrew localizations

** Bugfixes

- faster loading of large files (should now be proportional to file size)

- fix positioning of error insets when running LaTeX

- fix bug where latex would not be re-run if no depfiles were changed,
  but the .dvi was removed

- fix bug where symbol fonts (Greek letters...) would not show in
  math when using scalable fonts. This is really a bug in Mandrake
  and Redhat fonts.

- fix possible crash when the cursor is between two spaces and a
  selection is begun

- fix reading under unix of lyx files produced under windows (was
  actually not fixed in 1.1.6fix3)

- fix problem where document is marked `changed' when going in/out an
  empty tabular cell

- fix the logic of quote insertion after '-', '[' and '{'

- fix generation of an extra space after an inset in linuxdoc creation

- make tables in DocBook sgml conformant

- do not ignore newline/hfill chars when copying to the clipboard

- fix insertion of \Upsilon in the math editor

- fix crash if banner-file was not found

- the `SubSection' layout of the cv class has been renamed to
  `Subsection'

- fix compilation with gcc 2.8.x

- improve the rpm spec file

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.0 is there!

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

After too long a wait, the LyX team are pleased to announce the new stable
release, 1.2.0.

This release has far too many bugfixes and new features to list
comprehensively, but some are listed below.

You can download LyX 1.2.0 here :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.0.tar.gz

Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) are available
at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.0/

Note that there is no patch, due to the amount of changes.
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  
 
New features


Major improvements have been made to the handling of "insets" such as
footnotes, margin notes, and figure floats. A new minipage facility has been
added to make minipage management easy and powerful. Float parameters can be
set on a per-float basis now. Notes insets can contain arbitrary objects.

A new ERT mode replaces the old LaTeX font and LaTeX environment method of
1.1.6.  This allows the user to fold LaTeX text away just like a float, and
supports both short and long sections of LaTeX commands in an intuitive manner. 

The speed and usability problems with tables that remained in 1.1.6 have almost
all been fixed.  
 
A powerful new graphics system has been included. This allows the user to set
up converters to allow previews of any input format (for example, LyX can
display inline previews of figures generated from Grace). Many other
improvements to the graphics code has been made.

Support for natbib citations has been added, and more facilities have been
added (such as the ability to search).

The math editor has been mostly rewritten, leading to many new features, such
as :

- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
  also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts) as long as the
  relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
 
- support for many amsmath features

- GUI support provided for many more features

- (Better) support for nested macros

Many dialogs and other LyX features have had major usability improvements.  
 
Other new features include document bookmarks, parsing LaTeX pre-ambles on
LaTeX import, ligature break support, an English thesaurus, and more.  

New document classes dtk, ltugboat, spie and svprobth. 
 
Bug fixes
-

A large number of math editor fixes have been made.

A number of obscure drawing errors and crash problems have been fixed, and
several problems with LaTeX output from LyX documents no longer occur.
 
The problems affecting figure previews, due to ghostscript and xforms,
no longer apply.
 
A work around for long tab names in dialogs has been included.
 
Various miscellaneous fixes.
 
Upgrading from earlier LyX versions
---

You should have no problems upgrading from LyX versions 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. It is
nevertheless recommended that you keep backups of important documents.  Most
documents will load in 1.2.0 without problems. Older versions of LyX cannot
read documents saved with LyX 1.2.0.

If you are having problems displaying figures in LyX, make sure you have a
recent version of the ImageMagick package installed.  
 
There are some (rare) problems with older documents, especially concerning
floating figures and the use of minipages. Please read the UPGRADING file for
more information on this.

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.2.1.

LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
recommended.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface 
  and therefore need an X server. 


You can download LyX 1.2.1 here :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.1.tar.gz

Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) are available
at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.1

If you already have LyX 1.2.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.1.gz  
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  
 
** Updates

- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
  when this gets released) 

- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
  the performance problems

- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog

- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
  table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
  seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people

- it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
  "document defaults"

- when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
  float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
  help entering of ERT insets)

- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations

- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features

- better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets

- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
  obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
  M-p asterisk 6)

- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu

- support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
  keys

- it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
  line and have this file created for you

- new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
  heb-article and hollywood textclasses

** Bug fixes

- fix positioning of cursor after undo

- fix bug where error insets were not correctly removed

- fix some cursor bugs with right-to-left languages

- fix Arabic text rendering

- fix opening of a bibitem inset in a RTL paragraph

- do not open/collapse collapsible insets on mouse button 3

- fix a crash when using iso10646-1 encoding

- fix bug where using case changing commands on the last word of a
  paragraph would change the whole document (without any undo possible!)

- fix performance bugs when selecting with the mouse

- in commands that operate on words (Insert>Index...), make sure not
  to include insets in words

- save preamble too when using 'save as document defaults' in document
  layout dialog

- fix startup of LyX when Turkish locale is in effect

- fix latex output when there is a font change around a float or a
  tabular (this fixes compatibility with some 1.1.6 files)

- re-read correctly graphics insets when file name contains a comma

- fix latex output when the name of a graphics file contains several "."

- always pass filenames without extension to latex, so includegraphics
  can decide which extension is the right one 

- fix rotation angle of images to be the same as in latex output

- fix the graphics inset file browser to use the right list of
  extensions (instead of list of formats)

- fix support for 1.1.6 graphics files scaled as percentage of width
  or height

- fix handling of 'no display' option in 1.1.6 figure insets

- handle correctly fig and epsi files

- handle correctly zipped eps files (others worked well)

- fix the default rotation origin for graphics inset

- fix the default tgif format entry to use .obj as file extension and
  not .tgif

- fix reading of xpm files produced by some versions of imagemagick

- fix conversion of some eps files

- disable direct handling of ps files by the xforms image loader

- do not ignore zero-length vertical spacing with 'keep' flag

- fix drawing problems

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.2 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.2.2.

LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1.2.1.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface 
  and therefore need an X server. 


You can download LyX 1.2.2 here :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.2.tar.gz

Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.2

If you already have LyX 1.2.1 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.2.gz  
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.2, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  
 
** Updates

- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
  advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
  support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0

- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
  when dragging the mouse)

- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
  particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
  require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
  found)

- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
  automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
  who are not aware that it is needed

- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
  keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer

- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
  other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)

- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default

- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses

- update sciword bindings

- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
  Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial

- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
  the interface


** Bug fixes

- fix bug where special characters in equations label confuse LyX
  (this was a new bug in 1.2.1)

- fix bug with citation keys that contain spaces (this was a new bug
  in 1.2.1)

- remove special handling of EPSI files, because it caused more
  problems than it fixed (EPSI handling was new in 1.2.1)

- fix crash with undo

- fix lockup when changing the layout of several paragraphs at the
  same time (and the layout of the first paragraph is already correct)

- fix possible endless repainting when a tabular is larger than the
  workarea 

- fix bug with graphics files which name contain a '.'

- fix bug in the xforms image loader, where images would be cropped by
  a few pixels

- when a viewer has not been found (set to "none"), remove the
  corresponding View menu entry

- fix rendering of Arabic text

- fix bad latex output with language changes in nested environment

- fix bad latex output with math array environment included in an
  eqnarray environment

- fix bug where \limits statements (as obtained in math with M-m l)
  would not be read back from the lyx file

- do not output labels in latex when numbering is off

- harmonize the behavior of delete and backspace in main text,
  insettext, and tabulars, i.e. don't put stuff into the clipboard

- add bindings for M-< and M-> in emacs mode

- fix crash when using the koi8-u keyboard mapping

- fix handling of word-related cursor movement functions in math editor

- fix placement of cursor with mouse in presence of hfills

- the reference dialog now lists the labels of the current buffer

- fix the thesaurus dialog so that it can be closed with the Escape key

- fix problem where citation labels do not appear in 'natbib' style
  when the user expects them to do so.

- fix problems with wrong highlighted entry in citation dialog

- fix drawing problem when a line of text contains both left-to-right
  and right-to-left text

- ignore bogus matches of scalable fonts

- when loading a font fails, show the name of the said font

- make sure that pdf files use 1.3 format

- add detection of kdeprintfax for sending faxes

- add missing autoconf file xforms.m4

- fix compilation problem (missin

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.3 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.2.3
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.2.3.

LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface 
  and therefore need an X server. 

The main LyX site is

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/

with mirrors at

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/

You can download LyX 1.2.3 here :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.2.3.tar.gz

Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.2.3

If you already have LyX 1.2.2 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.2.3.gz  
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.3, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


 
What's new
==

** Updates

- updated italian User Guide

- updated french localization

** Bug fixes

- fix bug where the configure script would try to delete the /dev/null
  device when there has been an error in configuration step

- fix bug where autosaving would leave a lot of zombie processes after
  a long time

- fix problem where it was not possible to force some values to 0 in
  custom margins

- fix bug where horizontal alignment would be reset automatically to
  "left" in the tabular dialog

- fix functions word-find-forward and word-find-backward, the meanings
  of which were inverted

- when the lyx binary was invoked through a symbolic link, LyX would
  print annoying messages on the console; they are now output only
  when debugging.

- fix an installation issue with solaris

Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

[Sorry about the delay, it seems that this message was not sent to the
 announce list at the time of the release -- JMarc]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.

As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this. 
LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!

Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
been very important. A detailed list can be found below.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface 
  and therefore need an X server. 

You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.0.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


New features


** Qt frontend

This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
functionally equivalent.

** Xforms frontend

The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.

Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. 
In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
Moreover, support for xforms older than 1.0 will be removed in the next
release. You have been warned ;-)

In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input 
invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data. 
Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are 
highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual 
feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.

** Gnome frontend

Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
developer's list.

** Instant preview

preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the 
LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.

** Math editor

There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
formula

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.1
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.1.

As expected this is a maintenance release, which adds some polish
to the new features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also
fixes some significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import
script. We also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex
import improvements) for good measure.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports still need an X server.

You can download LyX 1.3.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.bz2

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors (also with
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.1/
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

** Bug fixes

- fix mathed bug where curly brackets in, e.g. {a^b}^c, would get lost
  and cause TeX errors

- fix bug where strange symbols were displayed instead of math symbols
  [Qt only]

- fix bug where "lyx -e" would refuse to work [bug #788, Qt only]

- delete lyxserver pipes on exit [bug #865, Qt only]

- add floats definition to the LLNCS class [bug #923]

- fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due to an old format
  .dep file (this happened only when use_tempdir was set to false)

- graphics that have been set to not display in LyX are no longer
  converted [bug #920]

- fix converters for tgif format

- fix bug where preview snippets would most of the time be processed twice

- prevent a crash when generating previews if the user is not using a
  tmp directory

- fix possible crash on exit when there are many previews

- don't cause a warning message to complain about starting an already running
  timer. Just don't start it ;-)

- prevent incorrect warning message about failing to find a graphics file to 
  load when all is actually fine and dandy

- fix a bug where ERT curly braces in math formulas would have a wrong
  descent on screen

- The printer parameter preferences for "spool command" and "file
  extension" were accidentally made the same [Qt only]

- Update the language of the text after changing the document language

- fix display of right quote inset

- fix off-by-one error in placement of error insets

- fix bug where opening the tabular dialog would mark the document as 
  change

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.3 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.3
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.3.

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
four main areas:
  * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
  * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
  * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
  * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
the user interface amd documentation.

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages
   an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents,
   not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving
   details of visual layout to the software.

   LyX runs on many Unix platforms, OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin
   (this port requires an X server). It can also run natively on Mac
   OS X, thanks to the Qt/Mac library.

You can download LyX 1.3.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.3.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.3.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.2 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.3.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.3, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.



What's new
==

** Updates

- add basic support for the memoir class

- add Proof layout to elsart class and get sections to be numbered

- make LyX compile almost out-of-the-box with Qt/Mac (see README.MacOSX)

- add a bit of documentation of the AGU journals support in the
  Extended manual; small tweaks to the english documentation; german
  documentation overhaul; french documentation and examples update

- completely new italian localization; french, german, russian and
  slovenian localization updates

** Bug fixes

- fix possible crash when changing text class [bug #1050]

- fix language setting when switching textclass

- fix math bug where formulas containing for example a \prettyref
  would not be parsed correctly [bug #1126]

- speed up conversion of large old files on some systems

- fix bad conversion of tables from LyX 1.0 [bug #1045]

- convert old files (0.11 series) correctly, suppressing space
  between number and units [bug #763]

- fix docbook export with nested environments [bug #821]

- output newline and hfill correctly in docbook [bug #1148]

- when pressing delete or backspace over a selection, do not modify
  the clipboard [bug #1049]

- when inserting a float or a note over a selection, make sure that
  the insets and font changes in the selection are correctly kept
  (note however that doing this now modifies the clipboard)

- clean-up properly after completed graphics conversion processes.

- enable graphics conversion using the default convertDefault.sh converter
  when exporting, even if convertDefault.sh is not executable.

- work around a Qt 3.1.2 bug with the environment combo box [bug #1136]

- fix bug where browsing for files in graphics inset would always
  return an absolute path [bug #1028, Qt only]

- do not write in preference file the colors which are still at their
  default value [bug #1069, Qt only]

- fix loading of symbol fonts [Qt 3.2.0 only]

- fix loading of symbol fonts on solaris

- fix the math panel symbols [Qt 3.2.0 only]

- do not reset natbib style when adding a new entry to a citation [Qt
  only]

- allow insertion of width strings like "2.5in" into tabular dialog
  [Qt only]

- fix some cases where the View>TeX information dialog would get
  confused because the same file gets listed several times

- remove annoying message on console when LyX tries to ma

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.4
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.4.

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
five main areas:
  * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
  * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
  * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
drag-and-drop);
  * Mac OS X support is much improved;
  * The interface and documentation localization have
been polished.

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages
   an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents,
   not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving
   details of visual layout to the software.

   LyX runs on many Unix platforms, OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin
   (this port requires an X server). It can also run natively on Mac
   OS X, thanks to the Qt/Mac library.

You can download LyX 1.3.4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files) :

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.4.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.4.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.3 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.4.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.4.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.4, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new
==

** Updates

- it is now possible to open documents which use a textclass for
  which no LaTeX support is installed. The documents can be normally
  edited, but they can of course be neither previewed nor printed. Note
  that the format of the file .lyx/textclasses.lst has changed as a
  consequence and it is therefore not possible to use LyX 1.3.4 and an
  earlier version with the same .lyx/ directory.

- add support for drag-n-drop opening of lyx files from your favourite
  file manager [Qt only]

- add support for intelligent scrolling with the mouse cursor [Qt only]

- improvements in LyX/Mac: support for opening files with LyX in
  finder; the LyX.app bundle can now be moved around and is
  self-contained with its own fonts (for math equations), support
  files, and PATH

- add support for \boldsymbol in the math editor

- enable lyx to read documents from versions 0.10 and 0.12

- improve support for LaTeX documentclasses: new agums (generic style
  for first-time submissions to AGU editors) and g-brief2 (a nice
  letter class) textclasses; allow optional arguments in Author,
  AuthorAdress and Thanks styles for the elsart layout; add
  Affiliation layout to jgrga textclass

- improve documentation for some languages: basque (new Extended
  Manual and User Guide; updated Intro and Tutorial), german
  (updated User Guide) and norwegian (new Intro)

- update basque, danish, finnish, french, german, italian, nynorsk,
  romanian, spanish and slovenian interface localizations

- remove localization for the following languages, since they were too
  incomplete to be useful: bulgarian, catalan, czech, hebrew,
  hungarian, portuguese, swedish, turkish, walloon


** Bug fixes

- fix a security problem where an evil .lyx file could cause
  arbitrary commands to be executed during processing

- fix a crash when saving a file containing a table (only with some
  compilers) [Bug #1415]

- fix a crash in the math editor when selecting up/down close to
  subscript insets

- several fixes related to old files: silence a bogus warning about
  encoding; fix conversion of tables (out of range error)

- fix warnings for docbook counters

- enable the file dialog to open files with non-latin filenames [Qt only]

- allow the use of some paper sizes (A3, B3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

John> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:34:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
John> wrote:
>> Public release of LyX version 1.3.4
>> ===
>> 

John> Can someone update freshmeat ? I'm a bit busy

I am willing to do it, but you have to grant me credentials, I think.
My login name on freshmeat is 'lasgoutt'.

JMarc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Chip" == Chip Cuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Chip> Complete. It is in the review process and should appear later on
Chip> today.

Thanks.

JMarc

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.5 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.5
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.5.

This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
  * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
case where the files are in different directories.
  * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.


The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages
   an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents,
   not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving
   details of visual layout to the software.

   LyX runs on many Unix platforms, OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin
   (this port requires an X server). It can also run natively on Mac
   OS X, thanks to the Qt/Mac library.

You can download LyX 1.3.5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.5.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.5.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.5/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.4 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.5.bz2


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.5, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==

** Updates

- Add a new textclass, svglobal. It is needed for various
  Springer Verlag journals for which no specific class exists.

- Add a new bindings file mac.bind for LyX/Mac.

- The script used to control the generation of bitmap images for use
  in 'Instant Preview' of math equations has been re-written in python.
  Windows users now have some chance of getting Instant Preview to
  work for them.

- The built-in Qt dialogs are now correctly translated for the
  languages that Qt supports [Qt >= 3.2 only].

- Add support for Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Nynorsk.

- Updated the Basque, Danish, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian (fix crash 
  when autosaving) and Spanish localizations. Updated the Basque and German 
  documentation.

** Bug fixes

* Document input/output:

- Partly fix the handling of included files. External insets are still not
  working correctly [bug #605].

- Fix nesting of language change commands, especially important for
  Arabic [bugs #1225, #1404].

- Fix missing line break in front of \end{...} in some cases [bug #1225].

- Run makeindex and bibtex correctly when the file name contains some
  special characters [bug #1526].

- Prevent clashes with LaTeX packages defining "\boldsymbol" [bug #1498].

- Make import of the preamble of LaTeX files more robust [bug #1584].

- Fix handling of floats and counters in  svjog and svprobth
  textclasses [bug #1430].

- Fix handling of counters in the scrlettr and scrlttr2 classes.

- Fix off-by-one-error which caused LyX to choose the wrong custom margin
  package.

- Remove extra spaces around math insets in plain text output.

- Quote shell variables correctly in the generated sh script used
  to control the conversion of graphics images to a loadable format.
  Ditto for the convertDefault.sh script.

* User Interface:

- Use opening quotation marks after an opening square bracket.

- Fix the toggling of the short title inset in some cases.

- When the autodetection of latex classes cannot be done for some
  reason, provide a sensible list of textclasses.

- Honor correctly the various locale-related environment variables when
  looking for translated help files.

- Prevent activation of the Ok and Apply buttons in the reference
  dialog when simply manipulating the list of references in the dialog.

- Set the default button

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.6 is released, with native Windows support

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.6
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.6.

Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.

To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.

We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
  * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
as teTeX 3.0).
  * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (-tab
and -backtab with Qt/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
  * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
considered as part of words 

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages
   an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents,
   not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving
   details of visual layout to the software.

   LyX was originally a Unix application, but now runs natively on
   Windows and Mac OS X as well, thanks largely to the cross-platform Qt
   toolkit.

You can download LyX 1.3.6 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.6.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.5 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.bz2

Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Win sources, since
some binary files have been added for this release.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.6, 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
==

** Updates

- It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
  spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
  as teTeX 3.0).

- Implement new functions buffer-next and buffer-previous that allow
  to cycle through open buffers; they are respectively bound to
  Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (except with mac bindings, where
  -tab and -backtab are used). [bugs 515 and 1639]

- LaTeX-type accents (which are used when converting from 7bit latex
  documents or when a given accented letter does not exist in the
  document encoding) are now considered as part of words; the same
  holds for ligature breaks and hyphenation marks. This impacts word
  level operation like selection by double-click or index entry
  defaults.

- The converters defined in the lyxrc.defaults and preferences files
  can now use a "$$s" placeholder to tell LyX to look for the
  converter in its support directories. A typical example is:

  \converter lyxpreview ppm "python $$s/scripts/lyxpreview2ppm.py" ""

- The ``annote'' field of BibTeX entries is now shown in citation preview.

- it is now possible to change current font to boldsymbol through the math
  panel. [Qt only]

- update the aastex textclass to AASTeX 5.2

- new Turkish translation.

- Files from the 1.4 development branch of LyX and tex2lyx can now be
  converted by lyx2lyx. The conversion is not perfect for all new features,
  but files containing only features supported by LyX 1.3.x can be converted
  back and forth without problems.

** Bug fixes

* Document input/output:

- Fix LaTeX output of percentage length values <10%. [bug 1523]

- Fix cras

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.3.7
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.7.

We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
noting:

- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
  the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.

- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
  installer and in the handling of file names.

All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.

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 1.3.7 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.7.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz


Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/

If you already have the LyX 1.3.6 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.7.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.7.bz2

Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Win sources, since
some binary files have been added for this release.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.7, 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
==

** Updates

- Update lyx2lyx to handle properly the latest LyX 1.4 format (245).

- New hungarian translation. Update Spanish translation.

- Update German documentation.

** Bug fixes

* Document input/output:

- Don't load the wasysym package automatically anymore (bug 1942)

- Fix crash with S-Home while entering a macro name (bug 2046)

- Do not delete selection when entering an index entry.

- Fix LaTeX output when a bibtex inset is used in a child document.

- Support tex4ht for Tex -> MS Word conversion 

- Support the previewers kdvi, kpdf, and kghostview

* User Interface:

- Fix wrong path when drag-and-dropping files on Windows. [Qt only] 

- Fix interaction of LyX with external clipboard (e.g. Klipper) (bug 1976).

- Ensure that no dialogs have one shortcut assigned to more than one action.
  Always connect the OK button to the Alt-O shortcut. [Qt only]

- Ensure that the user cannot create a reference without first selecting
  one in the reference dialog. [Qt only].

- The Return key is no longer bound to the Goto button in the reference
  dialog. [Qt only].

- Double clicking in the reference dialog now inserts a reference
  (bug 2187) [Qt only].

- Searching backwards in the citation dialog always skipped one result
  (bug 2002). Fixed now.

- Do not trim spaces from either end of the find and replace strings in
  the Edit->Find & Replace... dialog. [XForms only].

- Fix cras

Re: LyX 1.3.7 is released with Windows lack of Documentation Textclass.lst error

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Stephen" == Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Stephen> Apparently this version of the Lyx Windows 1.3.7 release uses
Stephen> the Angus installer rather than the Uwe installer. 

Uh? This version does not use any of the installers. The installers
are two different packagings of 1.3.7.

Stephen> The result is that on several machines the Angus installer
Stephen> fails to complete because it does not run the configure
Stephen> script and consequently no textclass.lst.

This is indeed annoying. I have plans to get rid of the problem by
removing the need to configure LyX at install time.

JMarc

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Bennett> Mac binary can be found here:
Bennett> .
Bennett> Please put it on the LyX ftp server.

Done.

JMarc

LyX 1.4.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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-devellists.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-userslists.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 (

Re: Viruswarning while installation of Lyx

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Matthias" == Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Matthias> Is it really possible, that there is a virus in the
Matthias> downloaded file? I got it from
Matthias> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/

Hello,

I do not think it is possible (and the file has been double-checked).

JMarc

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.4.2
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.2. This is a bug fix
release that improves performance, stability and native OS support.
Notable new features include:

- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
  [Windows and Mac OS X only].

- The windows installer has been completely rewritten.

- A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in
  the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be
  compressed on disk or not.

- A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
  format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
  figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.

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 1.4.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.2.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.2.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.2/

If you already have the LyX 1.4.1 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.2.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 1.4.2, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devellists.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-userslists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new in version 1.4.2?
 

** Updates

- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
  [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).

- Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
  in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
  on disk or not.

- Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
  Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.

- Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
  (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).

- Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.

- Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
  .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
  to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.

- Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
  International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
  IJMP D).

- Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).

- Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.

- Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.

- Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
  the math panel ye

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.4.3 is relelased

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.4.3
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.3. This is a bug fix
release that improves stability and MS Windows support.
Notable new features include:

- The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools) installation
  anymore.

- A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text inset
  and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
  accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the
  start of an inset, or Delete at the end.

- Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
  gcc 4.1.

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 1.4.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.3.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.3.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/

If you already have the LyX 1.4.2 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.3.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.3.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 1.4.3, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devellists.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-userslists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new in version 1.4.3?
 

** Updates:

- All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
  longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.

- Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
  mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
  the end (bug 2201).

- Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)

- Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).

- Some small updates to the documentation.

- Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
  Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.

- Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
  and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.

** Bug fixes:

* Document Input/Output

- Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).

- Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
  (bug 2782).

- Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.

- Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
  LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).

- When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
  require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
  \color (bug 2716).

- Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
  when running LaTeX (bug 2616).

- Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choos

LyX 1.4.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.4.4
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.4. This is of course
a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:

- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.

- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.

- Improved documentation.

- Speed improvments, especially on windows.

This is probably going to be the penultimate 1.4.x release before LyX
1.5.0, which will be made available as a first beta version later this
week. Before the release of the final 1.5.0, a least one 1.4.5 version
that is able to read the 1.5 format will be released.

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 1.4.4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.4.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/

If you already have the LyX 1.4.3 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.4.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.4.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 1.4.4, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devellists.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-userslists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new in version 1.4.4?
 

** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.

- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.

- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
  (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
  that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
  if you want to use this feature.

- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.

- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
  presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
  by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
  Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
  file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)

- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).

* USER INTERFACE:

- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.

- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active.

- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
  layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" 

LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2)
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (beta 2).

Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
added some graphical improvements:
 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.

Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
the user interface have been made, such as:

 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file 
 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) 
 - Support optional argument for environments 

Compared with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1
year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the
results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
with initial unicode support as the flagship of new features, jump
directly to the end of this message if you want to know more.

As usual with major releases, 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.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that 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 and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

You can download LyX 1.5.0beta2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0beta2.tar.gz

Note that due to the ammount 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/bin/1.5.0beta2/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, 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 2)?


* 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
merged in the

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

José> You can download LyX 1.5.0beta3 here (the .bz2 are compressed
José> with bzip2, which yields smaller files):

José>   ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.gz
José> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0beta3.tar.bz2

Err, this is not where I put them...

Also, you should set reply-to: to lyx-devel (I put lyx-users for
stable releases). 

JMarc

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 1).

We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.

The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.

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 1.5.0rc1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with
bzip2, which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.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.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, 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 (release candidate 1)?


* 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
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!

* Multiple views of the same buffer

LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
parts of it synchronously.

* Outliner and embedded TOC

LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1.4.

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.0 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.

Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
we have updated the documentation.

Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.

LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result.  The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
the end of this announcement for further 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 current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). 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 1.5.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz

Note that due to the amount of change, no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.5.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/bin/1.5.0/

As confusing as it is, two sets of installers are available to windows
users:
 * LyX-1.5.0-Installer.exe and LyX-1.5.0-Installer-bundle.exe;
 * LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller.exe and LyX-1.5.0-AltInstaller-Complete.exe.
The former is our official installer and the latter was previously known
as LyXWinInstaller. Please feel free to try either of them. Feedback
and bug reports on both installers are welcome because they will help
the merge of the two installers, which is expected to happen during the
1.5.x series of LyX development.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0, 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 1.5.0 ?


* 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 currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such 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 unicod

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.1
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a
few bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced
with the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows.
It was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this
area and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.

All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.

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 1.5.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.1.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.1.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.1/

If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.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 1.5.1, 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 1.5.1?



** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Add template for the APA class (bug 2390).


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set.
  This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1
  earlier than anticipated.

- Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language
  (bug 2468).

- Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some
  problems remain).

- Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086).

- Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094).

* USER INTERFACE:

- Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096).

- Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969).

- Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse
  button.

- Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only).

- Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection
  is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672).

- When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected
  text in the URL inset (bug 683).

- Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when
  updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).

- Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on
  platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076).

- Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571).

- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the docu

[ANNOUNCE] Windows Installer for 2.3.0

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 2.3.0 Windows Installer


We are pleased to be able to announce the release of Windows
installers for LyX 2.3.0.

Due to a bug in MiKTeX, installation of LyX 2.3.0 can sometimes
cause the MiKTeX installation to be corrupted. We highly recommend
that MiKTeX users update to the latest version *before* installing LyX
2.3.0. (If you run into problems, the solution will be to uninstall MiKTeX
and then re-install.)

(See https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/82 for more info.)

Below is the original announcement for 2.3.0.

Public release of LyX version 2.3.0
==

With this release, LyX celebrates 22 years of existence. The 2.3 series
has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series.

LyX 2.3.0 is the culmination of two years of hard work. An overview
of the new features can be found here:
  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23

You can download LyX 2.3.0 from https://www.lyx.org/Download/.

For Windows users, if you installed a pre-release of LyX 2.3.0, you
should uninstall that version before installing this newer release.

We hope you will enjoy the result!

If a file from an earlier version of LyX is opened *and saved* with
any version of 2.3.x, then the original file will automatically be
backed up. The backup file will be found in the backup directory, if one
is set under Tools> Preferences> Paths, or else in the same folder as
the original file, if no backup directory is set. The filename of the
backup file will be:
ORIGNAME-lyxformat-NUM.lyx~
where NUM is the LyX format number of the original file. In the case of
a 2.2.x file, this will be 508, but in the case of older files it will be
different.

The file lib/RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared
to the current stable releases (LyX 2.2.x). We strongly recommend that
packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file.

As with any major release, this one comes with a lot of new features but
also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.0, either
email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome .
Please specify if the behavior you are reporting is different from behavior
in a previous LyX version.

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you
will find at https://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX
users'
list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

The LyX team.
https://www.lyx.org