Public release of LyX version 1.5.3 ==================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.3. This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this version also provides some new features.
A detailed list of changes is appended below. All users, especially the Mac and Windows users, are encouraged to upgrade to this version. 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 1.5.3 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.3.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-1.5.3.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.3.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.3.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/1.5.3/ If you already have the LyX 1.5.2 sources, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.3.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.3.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 1.5.3, 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 1.5.3? ---------------------------- ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user interface. - New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx". - New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual. - Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide. - Revised Tutorial * USER INTERFACE - The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in performance thanks to this change. - The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on (Mac and Windows only). - The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445). - Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs. - The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78). - It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them typeset without switching to the proper language. - Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263). - The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished: they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by "View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it. - Inset-dissolve now works in mathed. - Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section in the math toolbar. * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - tex2lyx now imports the following LaTeX commands and environments: - \newline - environments "framed" and "shaded" from package framed.sty (i.e. framed and shaded notes in LyX) - \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage, and \inputencoding (bug 27). - all font settings that are natively supported by LyX. - all quotation marks (bug 2703). - xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers). ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line (bug 4255). - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333). - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.1.6) that used the "default" language. - Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385). - Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but not using also Theorem (bug 4282). - Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained URLs (bug 2265). - If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the system one. - Use package "float" when the default placement for floats is set to 'Here, definitely'. - Fix import of bounding box arguments "natheight", "natwidth", "bbllx", "bblly", "bburx" and "bbury" (bug 4418). * USER INTERFACE: - Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301). - Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable. - Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318). - Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its content is selected (bug 4323). - Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334). - Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs (bug 4317). - Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330). - Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335). - Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the appendix and it is empty (bug 4352). - Fix a crash when editing in an inset that contains an horizontal spring (hfill). - Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line tabular cell (bug 4368). - Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via Insert->File->Plain Text... - Fix a crash when using the regex search of the citation dialog (bug 4421). - Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268). - Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and in the output (bug 3172). - Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337). - Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files (bug 4287). - Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last of several misspelled words (bug 3586). - Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second run (bug 2218). - If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it was not aligned correctly. This is fixed. - Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147). - Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371). - Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text... - Fix middle-mouse paste from other apps into LyX (bug 4394). - Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326). - Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330). - Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308). - Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter). - Fix a bug when adding a math formula column. - Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829). - Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only). - Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user interface. - Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog (bug 4277). - Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090). - Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999). - Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified (bug 4266). - Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359). - Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters. - Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344). - Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu (bug 3888). - Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog. - Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset. - Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view. - Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345). - Fix on-screen numbering of mwrep and mwbk classes (bug 4419). * DOCUMENTATION - Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations). - Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation "Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0. - Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the EmbeddedObjects documentation. - Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial (bug 4328). - Document that the list of recently edited files is lost when upgrading from LyX 1.4.x. * BUILD/INSTALLATION: - Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons. - Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only). - Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by "make clean". - Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1.
