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Public release of LyX version 1.6.2 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.2. This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes, file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the performance of the application has been improved, and the release also introduces some new features and user interface improvements. All users of LyX 1.6.0 and LyX 1.6.1 are urged to upgrade to this version. A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES. 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 1.6.2 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.6.2.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/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.2.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/1.6.2/ If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply one of the following patches instead ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.2.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.2.bz2 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.2, 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 1.6.2? ---------------------------- ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - New German and Spanish translations of the specific manual "How to write Braille with LyX". - New German and Spanish translations of the specific manual "Writing linguistic papers with LyX". - New Indonesian and Ukrainian translations of the Splash document. - Update localization of the user interface for Czech, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. - Updated English and Spanish Customization manuals. - Updated English and Spanish LyX Tutorials. - Updated English, French, German, and Spanish Embedded Objects, Math, XY-pic and Tutorial manuals. - Updated English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish User's guide manuals. - Updated English specific manual "How to write Braille with LyX". - Updated English specific manual "Writing linguistic papers with LyX". - Updated German specific multicolumn manual. - Updated Extended and LyX functions manual. - Add a check for the japanese babel option in the LaTeX configuration manual (bug 5677). * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - New external material template for Dia. - New layout file for submissions to ACM SIGGRAPH conferences and publications. - New layout file to typeset recipes. - The menu separator special symbol is now direction aware, i.e., it points to the left in RTL-text (LaTeX output only) (bug 3560). * USER INTERFACE - Support for customized horizontal space in math/formulas (bug 2558). - Improved the display of BibTeX information in the citation dialog. LaTeX constructs such as: \"u, should now be displayed as unicode, and we should now see "(Doe, 1998)" instead of "(John Doe, 1998)" even when the name in the BibTeX file is "John Doe" rather than "Doe, John". - Added LFUN_VC_COMMAND to support customizable user commands for version control. - Improved the user interface of the graphics group feature. - Added "Copy as Reference" to the context menu of labels to ease the insertion of references. ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Fix a crash when reading a document containing specific numbered equations produced with tex2lyx (bug 5688). - Fix a crash when reading files created by tex2lyx in the presence of an empty child document (bug 4859). - Fix an assertion when an inset is hidden at the right of the edit window, for example in Description or Right Address layout (bug 5666 and 5068). - Fix the conversion of documents from previous LyX versions that have index insets following an index list inset (bug 5713). Affected files that have already been mis-converted can be repaired by manually setting back the file format to 288 in a text editor before re-opening the document with LyX 1.6.x. - Fix the LaTeX export of subfigures via the command line (bug 5562). - Fix the LaTeX import of preamble code (bug 5788). - Fix the reversion of floating wrap floats to LyX 1.5.x (bug 5618). - Make the PDF output of change tracking markup more robust by using the ulem package for struck out text instead of the package soul (fixes bug 5480, 5647 and the remainders of bug 5091). - Fix hanging module. - Pass graphics driver to the geometry package (bug 5613). - Fix LaTeX error with custom margins and the revtex4 class (bug 3838). - siamltex class: do not load amsthm package, since the SIAM class provides its own theorem-like environments. - Fix LaTeX export when using unicode symbols in math only in child documents (bug 5665). - Fix bug when coloring section headings in RevTeX4 documents (bug 4625). - Fix the output of telephone number and location in letters (bug 5684). - Fix a LaTeX export error that prevents the inclusion of two program listings that differ only by file extension (bug 5681). - Fix hyphenation and punctuation rules for Mexican Spanish (bug 4736). - For CJK documents using utf8 encoding, load the CJKutf8 package, if available (part of bug 5386). - Fix bugs when entering hyperlink paths containing special characters (bug 5686). - Fix the output of some Greek characters (rest of bug 5239). - Fix the address numbering in the elsarticle template file. - Fix update of single-char math macro names after their editing (bug 5541). - Fixed import of older files with empty index insets. * USER INTERFACE - Fix a crash when pasting a branch in a child document. This crash could destroy the emergency backup (bug 5813). - Fix a crash when restoring a dissolved branch in a child document via UNDO. This crash could destroy the emergency backup. - Fix a bug where changes in child documents were dropped or saved without asking when closing LyX (bug 5833). - Fix a crash when no file is open and the creation of a new document fails. - Fix a crash when using a math related function in an ERT inset (bug 5703). - Fix a crash when copying a matrix column (bug 5731). - Fix a crash when pressing the Home or End key while the cursor is not in the current view (bug 5736). - Fix a crash when quitting with the Tabular dialog opened. - Fix a crash when deleting columns in a table with multicolumns (bug 5766). - Fix a crash when setting a multicolumn row as the caption of a longtable (bug 5753). - Fix a crash when using the outliner in a child document, the master of which is not opened (bug 5699). - Fix a crash on exit when the child documents are already unloaded. - Fix a crash when pressing the Update button of the Citation dialog for read-only documents (bug 5785). - Fix a crash when removing the label of an included Program Listing. - Fix a few crashes that could occur with a 'visual' cursor (bugs 5762 and 5765). - Fix a crash when an unfinished macro is edited and deleted in math mode (bug 5744). - Fix the use of regular expressions to avoid crashes with Qt4.5. - Fix an infinite loop when creating multiple unnamed files with Qt4.5. - Ignore the master_buffer setting in Document>Settings if the current document is no real child. This fixes a crash when using the outliner in such files (bug 5653). - Set a proper file filter in the file dialog for inserting plain text. This fixes a crash when attempting to insert plain text (bug 5671). - Fix the synchronisation of insets when they are shown in two different views. This could also have lead to an assertion (bug 4346). - Fix an assertion when the status of a command in the context menu of an InsetCollapsable is requested which is not handled by the inset. This might happen when the user modifies the ui or when the right mouse button is dragged (bug 5797). - Speed up editing with Outliner open with Qt >= 4.3. This should especially pay off on the Mac, if the Outliner shows as a drawer (part of bug 4443). - Speed up editing when the document contains paragraphs with many (>1000) insets (part of bug 4443). - Fix the output of longtables if they have a caption (bug 5772). - Fix the longtable dialog: Now only only one attribute can be set per table row (bug 5752). - Set buffer status to changed and record UNDO after modifying insets such as pagebreaks or citations via context menu. - Fix on-screen layout of wrap floats. - Improve debug output when tracing what actions are triggered. - A re-declaration of an InsetLayout will now update the existing declaration rather than completely over-writing it -- agreeing with the behavior of our normal Style declarations. - Reflect external material template using Instant Preview in the dialog for scaling property (bug 5628). - Enable "dissolve" item in context menus of collapsable insets (bug 4985). - Fix unbinding/binding behaviour of shortcuts (bug 4544). - Fix instant preview of external material for the first insert in the document (bug 5626). - Allow pasting of text from applications that set the clipboard mimetype to both graphics and text (bug 5560). - Disable pasting with middle mouse button when the document is read-only (bug 4741). - Fix setting shortcuts with a Return key in the shortcuts dialog (bug 5648). - Fix layout of the View Source window when using Qt 4.2. - Fix numbering symbol direction in Hebrew and Arabic documents. - Remove the non-functional unit "mu" from the unit comboboxes (bug 5682). - Remove the bogus unit "None" from the Box dialog's unit comboboxes. - Fix enabling of height widgets in the Box dialog. - Fix a locale debug message. - Fix reloading bug for RCS revision control introduced in 1.6.1, backport trunk fix for bug 5389 (bug 5697) - Fix RCS check-in when more windows are opened, wrong file could be saved before commit. - Fix handling of p variable in converters configuration. Introduce r variable for the original input file. - Enable view-source widget for read-only documents. - Fix painting problems after load of instant preview image (bug 5627). - Limit workaround for Qt bug (bug 4513) that was fixed in Qt 4.3.4 to older Qt versions. The workaround resulted in unwanted display of hidden directories on UNIX. - Add the LyX 1.6 file format (*.lyx16) to the file filter of the file open dialog. - Fix the navigation to large floats from within the outline pane (bug 5573). - Enable Keep and Sort buttons in ToC when in readonly mode (bug 5767). - Fix the incorrect painting so that a table could hide other parts of the document after changing the width of a table column (bug 5604). - Enable the cursor to enter an inset at the very beginning of a document with visual cursor movement (bug 5764). - Fix the painting of tables when a multicolumn is created of which the the first column was a fixed width column (bug 5750). - Fix some problems of panel(s) initialization (bug 5082). - Enable the Add button in the Citation dialog for citations whose key is equal to part of an already selected key (bug 5711). - The table dialog no longer allows to set the multicolumn property of longtable caption rows (bug 5573). - It is no longer possible to accidentally insert a caption to a table that is not a longtable (part of bug 5777). - It is now possible to include spaces in the name of a branch (bug 5806). * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Fix compilation of the modernCV example file. - Localize the release date information in Help>About LyX. * BUILD/INSTALLATION - lyx.spec: remove "Icon" tag that triggered a build error (bug 5795); general update. - Fix compilation on OpenBSD (bug 5650). - Fix make check.