[Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.2. This is a maintenance 
release that focuses on improving the stability. We have fixed numerous 
crashes, performance problems, and other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation
has been revised. It covers all new features of the 1.5.x series now.

A detailed list of changes is appended below. The file RELEASE-NOTES lists
some remaining known problems.

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

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.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-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.2.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/1.5.2/

If you already have the LyX 1.5.1 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.bz2

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.2, 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 1.5.2?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
  date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
  For a detailed changelog, see
  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status

- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.

- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
  * longtable alignment.
  * scaled and rotated material.

- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
  In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
  all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
  Chapter are correctly translated on screen too.

- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
  Simplified Chinese.

- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, 
  Japanese and Romanian translations of the user interface.

* USER INTERFACE

- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
  enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.

- Add a Save all menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).

- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).

- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
  (bug 2714).

- Add a Save all on log-out or cancel feature (bug 1656).

- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.

- The dialogs of editable insets (such as index entries, URLs or
  citations) are now opened by the next-inset-toggle LFUN (bug
  2907).

- The screen label of index insets now displays their 

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[killermike]

On Monday 08 October 2007 06:59:42 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
 ===


As ever, my thanks and congratulations to the team. Now built and working on 
Kubuntu 7.10. Actually, I had no problems using 1.5.0 and had skipped 1.5.1.

-- 
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't have  
to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the universal  
yet) the screen fonts look blocky and some fonts are not displayed  
properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.
Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


Cheers,
Johannes



--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, Where have I gone wrong?
Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one  
night. (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Donn Ingle]

Magic. Compiled and running on Kubuntu 6.06 - what a pleasure.
Thanks for the code!


\d

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:


Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't  
have to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the  
universal yet) the screen fonts look blocky and some fonts are  
not displayed properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter  
what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.


I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this. Could  
you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have the  
same problem with different screen fonts?


Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out  
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not  
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized  
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),  
and I've added a note there.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
 the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
 change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
 version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
 and I've added a note there.

Does restarting LyX help?

JMarc

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Am 08.10.2007 um 16:25 schrieb Bennett Helm:



I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this.  
Could you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have  
the same problem with different screen fonts?




It occurs with all fonts. The sans serif are of course more legible  
but even there you can see it.


My System: PMac quicksilver G4 1,25Ghz, 768MB RAM running Tiger  
10.4.10, Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO AGP 64MB


Cheers,
Johannes
--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, Where have I gone wrong?
Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one  
night. (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it  
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math text/ 
previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Mark Hansel]

I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables. 
Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted. 
(If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)


Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures 
(or tables) yields an open TOC.


Mark Hansel

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Mark Hansel wrote:
 I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables.
 Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted.
 (If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)

 Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures
 (or tables) yields an open TOC.

I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the 
outline panel).

Jürgen

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the
 outline panel).

This is now bug 4260:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4260

Thanks for the report,
Jürgen

Cannot change citation style

[Kurt]

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from Natbib to Default and press
Apply, then it instantly changes back to Natbib. The same happens
if I press Okay and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.

I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: lyx: Disabling LyX sockets. What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?

Any ideas how to store my changes?
Best regards,
Kurt

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Christian Liesen]

I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the 
time being.


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI 
is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English :-).


-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it 
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math 
text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Francesco Menoncin]

I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was 
not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.


Now I have switched back to 1.5.1.

Francesco

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Christian Liesen wrote:


I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1  
for the time being.


See my comment below: zooming works, only you need a restart in  
between. (That's a bug that we should fix, but unless you're  
switching your zoom settings frequently, it wouldn't seem to be a  
reason to not use 1.5.2!)


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My  
LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in  
English :-).


This is the result of a bug fix: LyX now uses the Mac standard  
interface language for its menus and dialogs. I don't know if there's  
a way of using an alternative interface language. (Jean-Marc?)


Bennett



-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200%  
spaces out

the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi? 
id=3697),

and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if  
it takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in  
math text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett







--

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Chair, Program in Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind
Department of Philosophy
Franklin  Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Office: 717-291-4392
FAX: 717-358-6702
Web: http://www.fandm.edu/x11323.xml

Nath and maxima support

[Franci Žižek]

Hi!
I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:

1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
store and call variables:
m_1 := 100
m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

?

Thank You.
-- 
Franci Žižek

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Francesco Menoncin wrote:
 I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was
 not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.

The bug we're discussing should have no impact on the output (dvi, pdf etc.) 
whatsoever. So you faced a different problem. Could you post the LaTeX log 
file of the problematic case?

Jürgen

Re: Cannot change citation style

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kurt wrote:

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from Natbib to Default and press
Apply, then it instantly changes back to Natbib. The same happens
if I press Okay and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.


Can't reproduce this on XP with LyX 1.5.2.  Never had it happen to me 
with 1.5.1, either.


I assume the document is not read-only; if it were, you would not be 
able to change the bibliography setting, but the symptoms would be 
slightly different.


Does this happen with all documents (including new ones), or just with 
one particular document?


I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: lyx: Disabling LyX sockets. What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?


Yes, it's routine (and harmless).

/Paul

find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace 
function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4, 
\bind F3  find-replace
but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command 
minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
thanks,
rodrigo.

Re: find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, I just found out this command has changed to
dialog-show findreplace
However, typing findreplace in the command minibuffer won't
help discovering the right command, as it does for other commands,
like font-free-apply, for instance.
rodrigo.


On Monday 08 October 2007 16:32:19 you wrote:
 Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace
 function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4,
 \bind F3find-replace
 but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command
 minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
 thanks,
 rodrigo.

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
 Hi!
 I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
 type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
 
 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
 I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
 an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
 Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
 Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

\sqrt is pretty hasrdcoded in LyX.

The only way I see is to re-defining the macro using TeX.

 2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
 store and call variables:
 m_1 := 100
 m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

No. That's just a toy.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
 Hi!
 I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
 type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
 
 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
 I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
 an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
 Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
 Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
the same macro names as ordinary LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
near furture.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:01:00AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
  Hi!
  I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
  type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
  
  1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
  I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
  an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
  Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
  Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}
 
 Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
 the same macro names as ordinary LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
 like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
 near furture.

Sorry: ... would _not_ ...

How such a little word can change meanings...

Andre'

RE: Lyx 1.5.1 and LyX 1.5.2 Spellchecker Could not be started

[Rosanna Chan]

Hi again,
I cannot figure out why LyX continue to look for c:\Documents and
Settings\me\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset for
spellchecking.

I have installed LyX for all users both 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 - using the
installers. Before re installing, I had uninstalled all Aspell files (from
all users and from my own application data), clean out the registry for old
LyX 1.4 keys and the message just keeps on poping back up. 

Is there any other place that the path Aspell\Data (which is incorrect like
you pointed out) is hiding out?

Is this a bug in the installation packages - I never had a problem with 1.4?

Thanks again for your attention.
Rose


 
-Original Message-
From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 October 2007 17:12
To: Rosanna Chan
Subject: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 Spellchecker Could not be started

Rosanna Chan wrote:

  Hi Paul, thanks for replying to my query. I did find the files stored
  under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
  Data\Aspell\Dictionaries

  I changed the registry Aspell but Lyx still keeps on looking into the
  wrong path - ie it still insists on looking into c:\Documents and
  Settings\me\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset

  I have tried to additionally put the correct path in the preference
  settings but it doesn't seem to register. Could you tell me how I can
  tell Lyx to look in to right path for it's dictionary?

  Thankyou very much for your time - I really appreciate it!


There are actually three questions here: (a) why is LyX looking in the 
wrong portion of Docs  Settings; (b) why is LyX looking in the Data 
rather than Dictionaries folder; and (c) why is it looking for 
iso-8859-1.cset at all?

Question (a): As far as I know (and my understanding of this is 
limited), LyX looks for Aspell in the All Users are if LyX itself is 
installed for all users, and in the me area if LyX is installed for 
just you. As best I can tell, this is not configurable; I suspect it's 
hard-coded into the Windows port of LyX. Do you have LyX installed for 
just yourself (v. for all users)? If so, try uninstalling LyX and 
installing it for all users (or, if you prefer, uninstall Aspell and 
install for just yourself). See if that gets rid of the All Users v. 
me glitch.

Question (b): I have no idea on this one.

Question (c): Are you using languages other than English and/or 
encodings other than default? (This may not be a problem if we can 
resolve the other two issues, but then again it may still be a sticking 
point.)

Cheers,
Paul

exports in 1.5.1

[Myriam Abramson]

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?

I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.

The export tab gives me a custom menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

llncs class

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

How can I specify keywords in a document of the Article(LNCS) class? 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

Re: exports in 1.5.1

[Paul A. Rubin]

Myriam Abramson wrote:

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?


Should be File - Export - (pick format).


I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.


I'm fuzzy on the precise differences, but I think the gist is that you 
want the former if you intend to generate a DVI file (whether as the end 
result or to then run dvips, dvipdfm, etc.) and the latter if you intend 
to run pdflatex against the file to get a PDF file.


The export tab gives me a custom menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 


You shouldn't here, either.  Assuming that you have a document loaded, 
File - Export should be populated automatically with all formats for 
which LyX has a conversion path.  Are you saying that it's not?  If not, 
can you View - DVI or View - PDF (pdflatex)?  (If the answer is not to 
that as well, either the configuration script burped or something's up 
with your LaTeX distribution.  Or neither of the above.)


/Paul

[Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.2. This is a maintenance 
release that focuses on improving the stability. We have fixed numerous 
crashes, performance problems, and other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation
has been revised. It covers all new features of the 1.5.x series now.

A detailed list of changes is appended below. The file RELEASE-NOTES lists
some remaining known problems.

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

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.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-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.2.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/1.5.2/

If you already have the LyX 1.5.1 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.bz2

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.2, 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 1.5.2?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
  date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
  For a detailed changelog, see
  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status

- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.

- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
  * longtable alignment.
  * scaled and rotated material.

- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
  In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
  all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
  Chapter are correctly translated on screen too.

- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
  Simplified Chinese.

- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, 
  Japanese and Romanian translations of the user interface.

* USER INTERFACE

- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
  enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.

- Add a Save all menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).

- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).

- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
  (bug 2714).

- Add a Save all on log-out or cancel feature (bug 1656).

- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.

- The dialogs of editable insets (such as index entries, URLs or
  citations) are now opened by the next-inset-toggle LFUN (bug
  2907).

- The screen label of index insets now displays their 

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[killermike]

On Monday 08 October 2007 06:59:42 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
 ===


As ever, my thanks and congratulations to the team. Now built and working on 
Kubuntu 7.10. Actually, I had no problems using 1.5.0 and had skipped 1.5.1.

-- 
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't have  
to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the universal  
yet) the screen fonts look blocky and some fonts are not displayed  
properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.
Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


Cheers,
Johannes



--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, Where have I gone wrong?
Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one  
night. (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Donn Ingle]

Magic. Compiled and running on Kubuntu 6.06 - what a pleasure.
Thanks for the code!


\d

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:


Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't  
have to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the  
universal yet) the screen fonts look blocky and some fonts are  
not displayed properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter  
what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.


I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this. Could  
you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have the  
same problem with different screen fonts?


Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out  
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not  
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized  
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),  
and I've added a note there.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
 the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
 change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
 version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
 and I've added a note there.

Does restarting LyX help?

JMarc

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Am 08.10.2007 um 16:25 schrieb Bennett Helm:



I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this.  
Could you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have  
the same problem with different screen fonts?




It occurs with all fonts. The sans serif are of course more legible  
but even there you can see it.


My System: PMac quicksilver G4 1,25Ghz, 768MB RAM running Tiger  
10.4.10, Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO AGP 64MB


Cheers,
Johannes
--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, Where have I gone wrong?
Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one  
night. (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it  
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math text/ 
previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Mark Hansel]

I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables. 
Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted. 
(If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)


Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures 
(or tables) yields an open TOC.


Mark Hansel

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Mark Hansel wrote:
 I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables.
 Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted.
 (If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)

 Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures
 (or tables) yields an open TOC.

I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the 
outline panel).

Jürgen

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the
 outline panel).

This is now bug 4260:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4260

Thanks for the report,
Jürgen

Cannot change citation style

[Kurt]

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from Natbib to Default and press
Apply, then it instantly changes back to Natbib. The same happens
if I press Okay and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.

I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: lyx: Disabling LyX sockets. What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?

Any ideas how to store my changes?
Best regards,
Kurt

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Christian Liesen]

I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the 
time being.


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI 
is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English :-).


-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it 
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math 
text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Francesco Menoncin]

I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was 
not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.


Now I have switched back to 1.5.1.

Francesco

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Christian Liesen wrote:


I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1  
for the time being.


See my comment below: zooming works, only you need a restart in  
between. (That's a bug that we should fix, but unless you're  
switching your zoom settings frequently, it wouldn't seem to be a  
reason to not use 1.5.2!)


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My  
LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in  
English :-).


This is the result of a bug fix: LyX now uses the Mac standard  
interface language for its menus and dialogs. I don't know if there's  
a way of using an alternative interface language. (Jean-Marc?)


Bennett



-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200%  
spaces out

the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi? 
id=3697),

and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if  
it takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in  
math text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett







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Chair, Program in Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind
Department of Philosophy
Franklin  Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Office: 717-291-4392
FAX: 717-358-6702
Web: http://www.fandm.edu/x11323.xml

Nath and maxima support

[Franci Žižek]

Hi!
I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:

1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
store and call variables:
m_1 := 100
m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

?

Thank You.
-- 
Franci Žižek

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Francesco Menoncin wrote:
 I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was
 not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.

The bug we're discussing should have no impact on the output (dvi, pdf etc.) 
whatsoever. So you faced a different problem. Could you post the LaTeX log 
file of the problematic case?

Jürgen

Re: Cannot change citation style

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kurt wrote:

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from Natbib to Default and press
Apply, then it instantly changes back to Natbib. The same happens
if I press Okay and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.


Can't reproduce this on XP with LyX 1.5.2.  Never had it happen to me 
with 1.5.1, either.


I assume the document is not read-only; if it were, you would not be 
able to change the bibliography setting, but the symptoms would be 
slightly different.


Does this happen with all documents (including new ones), or just with 
one particular document?


I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: lyx: Disabling LyX sockets. What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?


Yes, it's routine (and harmless).

/Paul

find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace 
function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4, 
\bind F3  find-replace
but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command 
minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
thanks,
rodrigo.

Re: find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, I just found out this command has changed to
dialog-show findreplace
However, typing findreplace in the command minibuffer won't
help discovering the right command, as it does for other commands,
like font-free-apply, for instance.
rodrigo.


On Monday 08 October 2007 16:32:19 you wrote:
 Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace
 function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4,
 \bind F3find-replace
 but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command
 minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
 thanks,
 rodrigo.

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
 Hi!
 I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
 type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
 
 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
 I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
 an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
 Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
 Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

\sqrt is pretty hasrdcoded in LyX.

The only way I see is to re-defining the macro using TeX.

 2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
 store and call variables:
 m_1 := 100
 m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

No. That's just a toy.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
 Hi!
 I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
 type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
 
 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
 I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
 an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
 Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
 Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
the same macro names as ordinary LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
near furture.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:01:00AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
  Hi!
  I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
  type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
  
  1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
  I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
  an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
  Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
  Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}
 
 Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
 the same macro names as ordinary LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
 like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
 near furture.

Sorry: ... would _not_ ...

How such a little word can change meanings...

Andre'

RE: Lyx 1.5.1 and LyX 1.5.2 Spellchecker Could not be started

[Rosanna Chan]

Hi again,
I cannot figure out why LyX continue to look for c:\Documents and
Settings\me\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset for
spellchecking.

I have installed LyX for all users both 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 - using the
installers. Before re installing, I had uninstalled all Aspell files (from
all users and from my own application data), clean out the registry for old
LyX 1.4 keys and the message just keeps on poping back up. 

Is there any other place that the path Aspell\Data (which is incorrect like
you pointed out) is hiding out?

Is this a bug in the installation packages - I never had a problem with 1.4?

Thanks again for your attention.
Rose


 
-Original Message-
From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 October 2007 17:12
To: Rosanna Chan
Subject: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 Spellchecker Could not be started

Rosanna Chan wrote:

  Hi Paul, thanks for replying to my query. I did find the files stored
  under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
  Data\Aspell\Dictionaries

  I changed the registry Aspell but Lyx still keeps on looking into the
  wrong path - ie it still insists on looking into c:\Documents and
  Settings\me\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset

  I have tried to additionally put the correct path in the preference
  settings but it doesn't seem to register. Could you tell me how I can
  tell Lyx to look in to right path for it's dictionary?

  Thankyou very much for your time - I really appreciate it!


There are actually three questions here: (a) why is LyX looking in the 
wrong portion of Docs  Settings; (b) why is LyX looking in the Data 
rather than Dictionaries folder; and (c) why is it looking for 
iso-8859-1.cset at all?

Question (a): As far as I know (and my understanding of this is 
limited), LyX looks for Aspell in the All Users are if LyX itself is 
installed for all users, and in the me area if LyX is installed for 
just you. As best I can tell, this is not configurable; I suspect it's 
hard-coded into the Windows port of LyX. Do you have LyX installed for 
just yourself (v. for all users)? If so, try uninstalling LyX and 
installing it for all users (or, if you prefer, uninstall Aspell and 
install for just yourself). See if that gets rid of the All Users v. 
me glitch.

Question (b): I have no idea on this one.

Question (c): Are you using languages other than English and/or 
encodings other than default? (This may not be a problem if we can 
resolve the other two issues, but then again it may still be a sticking 
point.)

Cheers,
Paul

exports in 1.5.1

[Myriam Abramson]

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?

I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.

The export tab gives me a custom menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

llncs class

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

How can I specify keywords in a document of the Article(LNCS) class? 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

Re: exports in 1.5.1

[Paul A. Rubin]

Myriam Abramson wrote:

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?


Should be File - Export - (pick format).


I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.


I'm fuzzy on the precise differences, but I think the gist is that you 
want the former if you intend to generate a DVI file (whether as the end 
result or to then run dvips, dvipdfm, etc.) and the latter if you intend 
to run pdflatex against the file to get a PDF file.


The export tab gives me a custom menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 


You shouldn't here, either.  Assuming that you have a document loaded, 
File - Export should be populated automatically with all formats for 
which LyX has a conversion path.  Are you saying that it's not?  If not, 
can you View - DVI or View - PDF (pdflatex)?  (If the answer is not to 
that as well, either the configuration script burped or something's up 
with your LaTeX distribution.  Or neither of the above.)


/Paul

[Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.2. This is a maintenance 
release that focuses on improving the stability. We have fixed numerous 
crashes, performance problems, and other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation
has been revised. It covers all new features of the 1.5.x series now.

A detailed list of changes is appended below. The file RELEASE-NOTES lists
some remaining known problems.

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

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.2.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-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.2.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.2.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/1.5.2/

If you already have the LyX 1.5.1 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.2.bz2

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.2, 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 1.5.2?


** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
  date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
  For a detailed changelog, see
  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status

- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.

- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
  * longtable alignment.
  * scaled and rotated material.

- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
  In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
  all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
  "Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too.

- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
  Simplified Chinese.

- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, 
  Japanese and Romanian translations of the user interface.

* USER INTERFACE

- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
  enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.

- Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).

- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).

- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
  (bug 2714).

- Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656).

- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.

- The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or
  citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug
  2907).

- The screen label of index insets now displays 

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[killermike]

On Monday 08 October 2007 06:59:42 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Public release of LyX version 1.5.2
> ===
>

As ever, my thanks and congratulations to the team. Now built and working on 
Kubuntu 7.10. Actually, I had no problems using 1.5.0 and had skipped 1.5.1.

-- 
http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, music, geek sitcom etc.

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't have  
to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the universal  
yet) the screen fonts look "blocky" and some fonts are not displayed  
properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.
Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


Cheers,
Johannes



--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one  
night." (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Donn Ingle]

Magic. Compiled and running on Kubuntu 6.06 - what a pleasure.
Thanks for the code!


\d

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:


Hello,
First, I want to thank you for posting the binaries, so I don't  
have to do the - well - sometimes tedious work of compiling by myself.

So the following is no criticism only a user report.

On my Mac the binary Version for PPC (I haven't checked the  
universal yet) the screen fonts look "blocky" and some fonts are  
not displayed properly (It looks like it is always Times no matter  
what I choose).

This wasn't the case in 1.5.0 and 1.5.1.


I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this. Could  
you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have the  
same problem with different screen fonts?


Further, if I scale down the screen fonts (e.g. from 150 to 100  
percent), characters overlap, should that be?


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out  
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not  
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized  
version of bug 3697 (),  
and I've added a note there.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
> the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
> change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
> version of bug 3697 (),
> and I've added a note there.

Does restarting LyX help?

JMarc

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Johannes Knaus]

Am 08.10.2007 um 16:25 schrieb Bennett Helm:



I've tested on a couple of PPC Macs, and I cannot confirm this.  
Could you provide more details about your system? Also, do you have  
the same problem with different screen fonts?




It occurs with all fonts. The sans serif are of course more legible  
but even there you can see it.


My System: PMac quicksilver G4 1,25Ghz, 768MB RAM running Tiger  
10.4.10, Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO AGP 64MB


Cheers,
Johannes
--

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one  
night." (Charlie Brown)

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it  
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math text/ 
previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Mark Hansel]

I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables. 
Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted. 
(If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)


Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures 
(or tables) yields an open TOC.


Mark Hansel

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Mark Hansel wrote:
> I have a large MS with TOC, an index of figures and an index of tables.
> Opening any one disables the others until lyx is closed and restarted.
> (If it matters, Track Change is enabled.)
>
> Specifically, 1) open and close the TOC, 2) click on the list of figures
> (or tables) yields an open TOC.

I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the 
outline panel).

Jürgen

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> I see this, too (but you can switch using the combo box at the top of the
> outline panel).

This is now bug 4260:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4260

Thanks for the report,
Jürgen

Cannot change citation style

[Kurt]

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from "Natbib" to "Default" and press
"Apply", then it instantly changes back to "Natbib". The same happens
if I press "Okay" and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.

I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: "lyx: Disabling LyX sockets." What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?

Any ideas how to store my changes?
Best regards,
Kurt

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Christian Liesen]

I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1 for the 
time being.


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My LyX GUI 
is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in English :-).


-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200% spaces out
the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (),
and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if it 
takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in math 
text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Francesco Menoncin]

I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was 
not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.


Now I have switched back to 1.5.1.

Francesco

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Christian Liesen wrote:


I'd just like to confirm this for an Intel Mac running OS X 10.4.10.

Zooming does not help on my system. I'm switiching back to 1.5.1  
for the time being.


See my comment below: zooming works, only you need a restart in  
between. (That's a bug that we should fix, but unless you're  
switching your zoom settings frequently, it wouldn't seem to be a  
reason to not use 1.5.2!)


By the way, could this have anything to do with localisation? My  
LyX GUI is in German all of a sudden ... I liked it better in  
English :-).


This is the result of a bug fix: LyX now uses the Mac standard  
interface language for its menus and dialogs. I don't know if there's  
a way of using an alternative interface language. (Jean-Marc?)


Bennett



-- Christian




Bennett Helm wrote:

On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I can confirm this. Moreover, increasing the scale to 200%  
spaces out

the characters; in each case, the character size itself does not
change, only the spacing. This appears to be a somewhat generalized
version of bug 3697 (),

and I've added a note there.


Does restarting LyX help?


You mean changing the Zoom% setting, and then restarting to see if  
it takes effect: yes, that works -- both in normal text and in  
math text/previews, as well as zooming both bigger and smaller.


Bennett







--

Bennett W. Helm
Chair, Program in Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind
Department of Philosophy
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Office: 717-291-4392
FAX: 717-358-6702
Web: http://www.fandm.edu/x11323.xml

Nath and maxima support

[Franci Žižek]

Hi!
I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:

1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
store and call variables:
m_1 := 100
m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

?

Thank You.
-- 
Franci Žižek

Re: [Announce] LyX 1.5.2 is released

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Francesco Menoncin wrote:
> I work on Windows XP and LyX 1.5.2 gave me problems with fonts. It was
> not able to load fonts and the DVI had almost all characters missing.

The bug we're discussing should have no impact on the output (dvi, pdf etc.) 
whatsoever. So you faced a different problem. Could you post the LaTeX log 
file of the problematic case?

Jürgen

Re: Cannot change citation style

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kurt wrote:

Hello everybody,

when I try to change the citation style in LyX 1.5.1 on WinXP
(Documents/Settings/Bibliography) from "Natbib" to "Default" and press
"Apply", then it instantly changes back to "Natbib". The same happens
if I press "Okay" and re-open that dialog. So the changes I make there
are not stored.


Can't reproduce this on XP with LyX 1.5.2.  Never had it happen to me 
with 1.5.1, either.


I assume the document is not read-only; if it were, you would not be 
able to change the bibliography setting, but the symptoms would be 
slightly different.


Does this happen with all documents (including new ones), or just with 
one particular document?


I have tried this when running LyX as an administrator but it didn't
allow me to change the citations style either.

Maybe it is important to mention that when LyX starts I get an error
message: "lyx: Disabling LyX sockets." What does that error message
mean. Can I ignore it?


Yes, it's routine (and harmless).

/Paul

find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace 
function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4, 
\bind "F3"  "find-replace"
but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command 
minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
thanks,
rodrigo.

Re: find-replace shortcut

[Rodrigo Fresneda]

Hi, I just found out this command has changed to
dialog-show findreplace
However, typing "findreplace" in the command minibuffer won't
help discovering the right command, as it does for other commands,
like font-free-apply, for instance.
rodrigo.


On Monday 08 October 2007 16:32:19 you wrote:
> Hi, can anyone tell me how to bind a keyboard key to the find-replace
> function? The following used to work in lyx-1.4,
> \bind "F3""find-replace"
> but now  in (lyx-1.5.3svn) it doesn't work anymore. Incidently, the command
> minibuffer doesn't give a clue.
> thanks,
> rodrigo.

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
> type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
> 
> 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
> I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
> an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
> Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
> Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

\sqrt is pretty hasrdcoded in LyX.

The only way I see is to re-defining the macro using TeX.

> 2. I was trying out the maxima integration into Lyx. Is it possible to
> store and call variables:
> m_1 := 100
> m_1 + 1 = {maxima result=101}

No. That's just a toy.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
> type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
> 
> 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
> I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
> an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
> Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
> Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}

Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
the same macro names as "ordinary" LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
near furture.

Andre'

Re: Nath and maxima support

[Andre Poenitz]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:01:00AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Franci Žižek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I'm currently using Lyx for some papers, but would like to use it to
> > type a book for my colleague. I have two questions in this regard:
> > 
> > 1. Is there a plan to support the nath Latex module -
> > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nath/
> > I put it in the preamble and it works but I can't type the 3rd root of
> > an expression, because the module uses a different syntax than plain
> > Latex (the Tex command doesn't work ether). Latex:\sqrt[3]{x} ;
> > Latex+nath: \sqrt{3}{x}
> 
> Supporting such a package would be much easier if it did not use
> the same macro names as "ordinary" LaTeX. As it stands now it looks
> like a safe bet that the package would be supported by LyX in the
> near furture.

Sorry: "... would _not_ ..."

How such a little word can change meanings...

Andre'

RE: Lyx 1.5.1 and LyX 1.5.2 Spellchecker Could not be started

[Rosanna Chan]

Hi again,
I cannot figure out why LyX continue to look for "c:\Documents and
Settings\\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset" for
spellchecking.

I have installed LyX for all users both 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 - using the
installers. Before re installing, I had uninstalled all Aspell files (from
all users and from my own application data), clean out the registry for old
LyX 1.4 keys and the message just keeps on poping back up. 

Is there any other place that the path Aspell\Data (which is incorrect like
you pointed out) is hiding out?

Is this a bug in the installation packages - I never had a problem with 1.4?

Thanks again for your attention.
Rose


 
-Original Message-
From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 October 2007 17:12
To: Rosanna Chan
Subject: Re: Lyx 1.5.1 Spellchecker Could not be started

Rosanna Chan wrote:

>  Hi Paul, thanks for replying to my query. I did find the files stored
>  under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>  Data\Aspell\Dictionaries
>
>  I changed the registry Aspell but Lyx still keeps on looking into the
>  wrong path - ie it still insists on looking into "c:\Documents and
>  Settings\\Application Data\Aspell\Data/iso-8859-1.cset"
>
>  I have tried to additionally put the correct path in the preference
>  settings but it doesn't seem to register. Could you tell me how I can
>  tell Lyx to look in to right path for it's dictionary?
>
>  Thankyou very much for your time - I really appreciate it!


There are actually three questions here: (a) why is LyX looking in the 
wrong portion of Docs & Settings; (b) why is LyX looking in the Data 
rather than Dictionaries folder; and (c) why is it looking for 
iso-8859-1.cset at all?

Question (a): As far as I know (and my understanding of this is 
limited), LyX looks for Aspell in the All Users are if LyX itself is 
installed for all users, and in the  area if LyX is installed for 
just you. As best I can tell, this is not configurable; I suspect it's 
hard-coded into the Windows port of LyX. Do you have LyX installed for 
just yourself (v. for all users)? If so, try uninstalling LyX and 
installing it for all users (or, if you prefer, uninstall Aspell and 
install for just yourself). See if that gets rid of the All Users v. 
 glitch.

Question (b): I have no idea on this one.

Question (c): Are you using languages other than English and/or 
encodings other than default? (This may not be a problem if we can 
resolve the other two issues, but then again it may still be a sticking 
point.)

Cheers,
Paul

exports in 1.5.1

[Myriam Abramson]

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?

I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.

The export tab gives me a "custom" menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

llncs class

[Myriam Abramson]

Hello,

How can I specify keywords in a document of the Article(LNCS) class? 

TIA
-- 
   myriam

Re: exports in 1.5.1

[Paul A. Rubin]

Myriam Abramson wrote:

How do I export a LyX document to latex2e? to dvi?


Should be File -> Export -> (pick format).


I don't know the difference between latex(plain) and
latex(pdflatex). Please help.


I'm fuzzy on the precise differences, but I think the gist is that you 
want the former if you intend to generate a DVI file (whether as the end 
result or to then run dvips, dvipdfm, etc.) and the latter if you intend 
to run pdflatex against the file to get a PDF file.


The export tab gives me a "custom" menu but nothing else. I don't know
how to set that up. I didn't have to do that in the previous LyX
versions. 


You shouldn't here, either.  Assuming that you have a document loaded, 
File -> Export should be populated automatically with all formats for 
which LyX has a conversion path.  Are you saying that it's not?  If not, 
can you View -> DVI or View -> PDF (pdflatex)?  (If the answer is not to 
that as well, either the configuration script burped or something's up 
with your LaTeX distribution.  Or neither of the above.)


/Paul