[ANNOUNCE] Windows Installer for 2.3.0

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 2.3.0 Windows Installer


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

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

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

Below is the original announcement for 2.3.0.

Public release of LyX version 2.3.0
==

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

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

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

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

We hope you will enjoy the result!

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

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

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

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

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

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.1
===

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

All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.

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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

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

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

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

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

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

If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.bz2

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

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel 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 1.5.1?



** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

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


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

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

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

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

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

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

* USER INTERFACE:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the 

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.1 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.1
===

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

All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.

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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

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

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

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

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

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

If you already have the LyX 1.4.4 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.1.bz2

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

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users  lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new in version 1.5.1?



** Updates:
***

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

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


** Bug fixes:
*

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

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

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

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

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

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

* USER INTERFACE:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the 

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.0 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.

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

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

LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result.  The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
the end of this announcement for further details.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes


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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 ?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode 

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.0 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
===

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.

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

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

LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
result.  The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
the end of this announcement for further details.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the current stable release (LyX 1.4.5). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes


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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 ?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
the 

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

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

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

Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
features, see the end of this announcement for details.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes


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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

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

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2

Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.4.

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


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.

* Integrated CJK support

The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!

* Multiple views of the same buffer

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

* Outliner and embedded TOC

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

LyX version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

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

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

Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
features, see the end of this announcement for details.

As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release
compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.4.4). An updated list of
issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes


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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

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

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.5.0rc1.tar.bz2

Note that due to the amount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.4.

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


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0rc1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.

* Integrated CJK support

The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!

* Multiple views of the same buffer

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

* Outliner and embedded TOC

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

LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

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

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

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

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

As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.

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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

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

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

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

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

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

Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.4.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0beta2/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.

* Integrated CJK support

The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in 

LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 2) is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

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

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

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

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

As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.

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

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

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

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

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

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

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

Note that due to the ammount of changes no patch is provided to upgrade
from version 1.4.4.

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.0beta2/


If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.0beta2, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?


* Unicode

LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.

* Integrated CJK support

The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in 

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Bennett == Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Bennett Mac binary can be found here:
Bennett http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.4.0-Mac.dmg.
Bennett Please put it on the LyX ftp server.

Done.

JMarc

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

Done.

JMarc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Chip == Chip Cuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

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

Thanks.

JMarc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

Thanks.

JMarc

Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.

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

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

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

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

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

You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :

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

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :

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


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


New features


** Qt frontend

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

** Xforms frontend

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

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

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

** Gnome frontend

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

** Instant preview

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

** Math editor

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

Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

Public release of LyX version 1.3.0
===

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.0.

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

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

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

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

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

You can download LyX 1.3.0 here :

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

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :

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


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


New features


** Qt frontend

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

** Xforms frontend

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

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

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

** Gnome frontend

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

** Instant preview

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

** Math editor

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

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.0 is there!

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

You can download LyX 1.2.0 here :

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

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

Note that there is no patch, due to the amount of changes.
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  
 
New features


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

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

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

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

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

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

- GUI support provided for many more features

- (Better) support for nested macros

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

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

A large number of math editor fixes have been made.

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

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

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

[ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.0 is there!

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

You can download LyX 1.2.0 here :

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

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

Note that there is no patch, due to the amount of changes.
 
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.0, you may either
e-mail the LyX user's mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you
can't find an answer there.  
 
New features


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

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

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

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

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

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

- GUI support provided for many more features

- (Better) support for nested macros

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

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

A large number of math editor fixes have been made.

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

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

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

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

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Kayvan == Kayvan A Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

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

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

JMarc

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

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

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

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

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

JMarc

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5fix1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Dear LyX users,

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

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

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

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

JMarc



What's new
==

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

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

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

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

- add 'Reset' option to language choice.

- better support for arabic points.

** Bugfixes

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

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

- fix two crashes related to clipboard

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

- fix crash when closing index popup from window manager.

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

- better dependency for latex runs.

- fix disappearing cursor in some situations

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

- fix build problems on AIX and Solaris.

- fix bug in the install-strip Makefile target

** Other: documentation update, UI translation updates. 

Remaining problems
==

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

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

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

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

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

ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5fix1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Dear LyX users,

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

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

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

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

JMarc



What's new
==

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

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

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

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

- add 'Reset' option to language choice.

- better support for arabic points.

** Bugfixes

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

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

- fix two crashes related to clipboard

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

- fix crash when closing index popup from window manager.

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

- better dependency for latex runs.

- fix disappearing cursor in some situations

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

- fix build problems on AIX and Solaris.

- fix bug in the install-strip Makefile target

** Other: documentation update, UI translation updates. 

Remaining problems
==

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

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

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

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

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