The long awaited first prerelease of 1.1.5 is finally out.
This is from news:
Lots of internal code 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.
User-visible changes:
- 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 wrom the
command-line/window:
paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
- More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
- Better definition for LyXList style.
- 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 commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore
(The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
by lyx should be stored.
A note on the file format change for protected spaces: If you load a
document with protected spaces into LyX 1.1.5pre1 and save it, it will
no longer load properly in 1.1.4. so remember to make a backup. If you
forgot the backup please try this small sed script:
sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' \
< newformat.lyx > oldformat.lyx
(without the last '\' and on one line of course)
You can get the last prerelease at:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz
I am sure rpm's will be announced soon.
As always when trying out new versions, backup your documents. There
has been some reports on crashing during cut & paste and we are trying
to track those down. So please try this prerelease and help us find
the remaining errors.
Lgb
