Dear LyX users,

It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release
sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability,
all in one package!

Lots of internal code has been rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We
are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this
will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and
expand.

We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.

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

As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from
     ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/

Have fun!

JMarc




User-visible changes:

- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.

- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.

- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.

- multilingual documents (preliminary support)

- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
  only and is likely to improve in future versions.

- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
  command-line/window:
      paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]

- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
  in the margin for margin notes has been removed). 

- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.

- labels are now editable (not in equations, though).

- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).

- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
  earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
  errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
  (And you probably had the error always.)

- Better definition for LyXList style.

- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
  LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)

- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)

- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
  1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
  spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
  support is of course not supported in older versions.

- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.

- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
  (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)

- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
  use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)

- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
  screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
  by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether 
  lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).