Public release of LyX version 1.4.5 =================================== We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.5. This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires python 2.3.4 or later). 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 1.4.5 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.5.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-1.4.5.tar.gz http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.5.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/1.4.5/ 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-1.4.5.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.5.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 1.4.5, 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 1.4.5? ---------------------------- What's new ========== ** Updates: *********** * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface. ** Bug fixes: ************* * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052). - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin settings (bug 3416). - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241). - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug 3510). - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141). * USER INTERFACE: - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the last paragraph (bug 3303). - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with math insets (bug 3358). - Fix crash when undoing ctrl- in mathed (bug 3590). - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691). - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204). - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310). - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state (bug 3312). - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351). - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only). - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486). - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large things (bug 3295). - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a non-zero descent. - Set a default image size value (bug 2458). - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout. - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439). - Fix undo for special characters. - Fix gui for big delimiters. - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only). - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966). - Fix example for docbook-article. - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525). - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document class (bug 3931). * DOCUMENTATION - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual (bug 3736). - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848). - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset. * BUILD/INSTALLATION: - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX. - Allow automake 1.10 for building - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older 2.3.x python releases).