Package: lyx Version: 1.3.6-1.1 Severity: wishlist What's new in version 1.4.0? ----------------------------
** Improved user interface LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the classic UI) is still available, for now. It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed, the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars available: one for tables, and one for math. Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a table. ** Change tracking This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others, makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such changes. ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already much more powerful than reLyX ever was. ** Character styles For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own styles. ** Branches The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier. That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have more than one target audience will find this feature useful. ** Minipages evolve to Boxes In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX GUI ** Notes LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from the Insert>Note menu: - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed further. - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as, well, greyed-out text. ** Better language and numbering on screen Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output: - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in the language of the document, which may be different from the language of the menus; - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the document class specifications. ** Word count Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word count of the document or of the current selection. ** Error Lists Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list of errors popping up at compilation time. ** Improved bibliography support - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious "before citation" field is supported; - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities and law fields; - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added; - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the index processor is invoked). ** Improved microtypography support LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports: - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here between "e." and "g."); - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key. - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too much space between figure/table and caption. ** Small bits - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to pdf generation - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to edit the included figure - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which has poor support for other than English index sorting. ** Bug fixes Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages lyx depends on: ii groff 1.18.1.1-11 GNU troff text-formatting system ii imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.7 Image manipulation programs ii libtiff-tools 3.8.0-3 TIFF manipulation and conversion t ii lyx-common 1.3.6-1.1 High Level Word Processor - common ii lyx-qt 1.3.6-1.1 High Level Word Processor - Qt fro ii mime-support 3.36-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii preview-latex-style 11.82-1 LaTeX style files for editor embed ii tetex-bin 3.0-14 The teTeX binary files ii tetex-extra 3.0-15 Additional library files of teTeX Versions of packages lyx recommends: ii acroread [pdf-vi 7.0.5-0.3 Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc ii aspell 0.60.4-3 GNU Aspell spell-checker ii cupsys-bsd [lpr] 1.1.23-15 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii evince [postscri 0.4.0-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer ii firefox [www-bro 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-3 lightweight web browser based on M ii gnuhtml2latex 0.3-1 A Perl script that converts html f ii gs-esp [postscri 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr ii gv [pdf-viewer] 1:3.6.1-13 PostScript and PDF viewer for X ii hevea 1.08-3 translates from LaTeX to HTML, inf ii ispell 3.1.20.0-4.2 International Ispell (an interacti ii kdeprint 4:3.5.1-1 print system for KDE ii kghostview [pdf- 4:3.5.1-2 PostScript viewer for KDE ii konqueror [www-b 4:3.5.1-1 KDE's advanced file manager, web b ii latex2html 2002-2-1-20050114-4 LaTeX to HTML translator ii linuxdoc-tools 0.9.21-0.2 SGML converters for the LinuxDoc D ii lynx [www-browse 2.8.5-2sarge1 Text-mode WWW Browser ii mozilla-browser 2:1.7.12-1.1 The Mozilla Internet application s ii opera [www-brows 9.0-20051020.6 The Opera Web Browser ii rcs 5.7-18 The GNU Revision Control System ii sgmltools-lite 3.0.3.0.cvs.20010909-13 convert DocBook SGML source into H ii w3m [www-browser 0.5.1-4 WWW browsable pager with excellent ii wv 1.0.2-0.1 Convert and preview Microsoft Word ii xpdf-reader [pdf 3.01-7 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui ii xpdf-utils [pdf- 3.01-7 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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