[Pkg-lyx-devel] [juergen at spitzmueller.org: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released]

[Sven Hoexter]

Hi Per,

Just a week too late for Lenny.
Guenter Milde wrote me in a private mail that there is some bug with deleting something
and instead of one sign it will delete some other stuff aswell. That should be fixed
in 1.5.6. AFAIK that's not yet in the BTS and I don't know if you've the time to
argue with -release over 1.5.6 and/or 1.5.5-2 with the fix for Lenny.

Cheers,
Sven

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:22:19 +0200
From: J?rgen Spitzm?ller <juergen at spitzmueller.org>
To: lyx-announce at lists.lyx.org, LyX User <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>,
	LyX Devel <lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.5.6 is released

Public release of LyX version 1.5.6
====================================

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.6. This is the fifth
maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been started exactly
one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX even more robust 
and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also, further translation
efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23 languages.

All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

With this release, the LyX 1.5.x series reaches its peak, while the next
major milestone, LyX 1.6.0, is already in sight. Expect, however, at least
one more minor release in the 1.5.x series, which will be released in
parallel to 1.6.0 and which will be able to import LyX 1.6.x documents.

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 1.5.6 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.5.6.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-1.5.6.tar.gz
	http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
	http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/lyx-1.5.6.tar.gz
        http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.5.6.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/1.5.6/

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/patch-1.5.6.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.6.bz2

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.5.6, 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 1.5.6?
----------------------------

** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- New (and complete!) Ukrainian localization of the user interface.

- Updated localization of the user interface for Czech, French, Galician,
  German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Japanese.


* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- New layout and template files for the Journal of Statistical Software
  (JSS).

- The importer for comma separated value (*.csv) files has been rewritten.
  Now the column separator character is automatically detected.
  Furthermore, the feature has been renamed to "Import->Table (CSV)".

- Paragraph line spacing settings are now imported when importing LaTeX
  files (bug 20).

- The paper orientation is now imported when importing LaTeX files.

- The paper layout and the number of text columns are now imported when
  importing LaTeX files (bug 4867).

- Add support for the xindy index processor (bug 4732).

- Add support for Graphviz Dot files (bug 4882).

- The A&A document class and template has been updated to conform to
  version 6.0 of the A&A specification (bug 4928).

- The 'Case' environment in the AMS classes has been rewritten to produce
  better output.


* USER INTERFACE

- Reenable quote display code, which was not working since 1.5.0.

- Implement properly word-movement code for both windows and mac
  conventions (bugs 2815 and 3580). This uses the new lyxrc variable
  \mac_like_word_movement, which is set to true by default on Mac OS X.
  It could be useful to emacs nostalgics too.


** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Fix a LaTeX error with nested insets in CJK documents (bug 4913).

- Make sure that a GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA is not automatically turned 
  into a GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA (and vice versa) on LaTeX output
  (bug 4966).

- Fix LaTeX export of combining characters in utf-8* encodings (bug 4946).

- Output paper size information to dvi or pdf documents when using
  landscape orientation, such that viewers can properly display them
  (bug 2721).

- Fix encoding errors when typewriter font is used (bug 4727).

- Correct the kerning between two subsequent '<' or '>' characters.


* USER INTERFACE

- Fix crash related to the outline pane with some documents (bug 4857).

- Fix crash when clicking with middle button on a collapsable inset
  (bug 4662).

- Fix crash when an outlining function was used for a section inside an
  inset (bug 5004). These functions are now disabled for section that
  are not in the main text area.

- Fix input of numeric values in non-english locales (bug 4951).

- Fix display of filters such as "LaTeX (plain)" in the file dialog.

- Fix error navigation with the keyboard (bug 4895).

- When inserting an inset over a selection, do not copy the selection
  to clipboard if we do not intend to paste it later (bug 4977).

- When inserting an inset over a selection, do not remove space at
  start of paragraph (bug 2018).

- Allow the use of eqrefs in mathed (bug 4623).

- Fix shape of braces, '$', '%', '&', and '#', which where incorrectly
  shown in italics in mathed (bug 4320).

- Fix display of unknown math macros, which were incorrectly shown in
  italics (bug 2594).

- Use appropriate font in notes and ERT insets in section headings
  (bug 2477).

- Fix wheel mouse scrolling when it is set to "One screen at a time"
  (bug 4972).

- Fix obscure 7 years-old bug with functions whose state can be toggled.


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The dynamically generated file formats in the menus, in the Document
  Settings and in the Custom Export dialogs are now translatable
  (bug 2488).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix compilation error with gcc 4.3.0.

- Fix installation of Mac OSX specific files when using the -jX option 
  of make.


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