>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Jean-Marc, attached is a first stab at the 1.3.6 ANNOUNCE file.
Angus> As usual, the top of the file tries to summarise what the new
Angus> LyX will provide.
Thanks. Here is my updated version. Note that I added a mention of
buffer-next/previous. I am not sure that we want to keep the mention
of 7bit accents. I think buffer switching will be much more
appreciated :)
I also change the blurb on platforms to read
LyX is originally a Unix application (using X window), but nowadays
it runs natively on Windows and Mac OS X.
I am not sure the language is right, but I think it says what we want
to say.
Concerning the readme files, I propose to:
- get rid of README.Win32, or rename it to README.Cygwin
- rename README.MacOSX to INSTALL.MacOSX. Bennett, do you want to make
modifications to this file?
- Provide files README.MacOSX and README.Win32 that give informations
like where files are located, how to configure, etc. This may just
be a copy of some wiki page, but which one? Since I do not know the
specific, I would appreciate if someone else did it for me :)
Angus, do you have plans to have an `official' page on the wiki for
LyX/Win?
Angus> I've removed one dead ftp mirror.
I added another one.
Angus> I don't know whether you plan to release patches against LyX
Angus> 1.3.5. I seem to remember that you couldn't because some files
Angus> now have binary status?
I will provide patches, but they will not be complete for windows. I
added a note to this effect.
JMarc
Public release of LyX version 1.3.6
===================================
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.3.6.
Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
We would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
* It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
as teTeX 3.0).
* It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<cmd>-tab
and <cmd>-backtab with Qt/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
* LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
considered as part of words
The complete list of improvements and fixes can be found at the end of
this message.
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 is originally a Unix application (using X window), but nowadays
it runs natively on Windows and Mac OS X.
You can download LyX 1.3.6 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.6.tar.bz2
and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.6.tar.gz
Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be
available at
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.6/
If you already have the LyX 1.3.5 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.6.bz2
Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Win sources, since
some binary files have been added for this release.
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.6, 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.
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