On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:39:20PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Hello, > > I think LyX 1.4.2 should have been out some time ago now. Let's see > what the showstoppers are: > > - The windows installer in not in svn. Lars, *please* give Joost > access rights! > > - I think Martin has one or two patches pending, but I am a bit lost. > Martin?
- The thing with collapsable-in-table you're working on. - Outlining? Ready patch in my tree. -- (status.14x lacks the new collapsable rendering code, mea culpa) > - I would have liked to fix the problem with menus looking like > E'diter instead of Éditer on LyX/Mac, but I failed. It looks like > gettext 0.14.5 has improvements for the mac, but we are not going to > upgrade before 1.4.2. > > - There is also the bug where the toolbar does not return to normal > condition after opening a dialog (2423). I have ideas, but did not > manage to concretize them... > > - what shall we do wrt cygwin (Enrico, I know it is the 137th time I > ask this question, sorry). > > And then we have the bugs that are officially assigned to 1.4.2: > > 2231 patch Graphics in tmp directory have different name from what > d... > 2251 patch Cursor fails to enter inside of esp. displayed math > insets. > 2556 regression not possible to delete a label of a formula > 2630 crash, patch lyx crashes on marking a line in a table (defined in > the ... > 2653 german tutorial broken > 2654 fixedintrunk, patch image path not always passed to image editor > 2660 german userguide broken > > > Bugs 2653 and 2660 would require to copy some images from images/ to > lib/images/math/. Georg, are there particular problems with doing > that? > > And then there are the fixes I have forgotten. Please tell me what > they are. > > JMarc > > -*- text -*- > > This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.4.2 > All comments are welcome. > > I'd be glad if some of you could take the time to check it out (or fix > a bug or two if you are feeling adventurous). Let me recall that all > these fixes have been checked in the branch BRANCH_1_4_X, which you > can get with the command > svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X lyx-1.4.x > > JMarc > > [In this list, I try to group things by topic and in decreasing > order of importance. This is, of course, subjective...] > > What's new > ========== > > ** Updates > > - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level > [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017). > > - Update Hungarian and Italian (see bug 2650) localization of the interface. > > - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian > (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples). > > - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as document language. > > - Add "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces > .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion > to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. > > - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add new textclass for > International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for > IJMP D). > > - Add new function buffer-toggle-compression (and entry in Document > menu) to change whether the file will be compressed on disk or not. > > - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533) > > - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter. > > - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures > > ** Bug fixes > > * Document input/output: > > - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout > files correctly. > > - Fix conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical > position) from 1.3. > > - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when > using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or > array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149). > > - Load the tipa package automatically when needed. > > - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is > active (bug 2214). > > - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore. > > - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions. > > - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546). > > - Update templates and examples to latest file format. > > - Make jpeg graphics with suffix in capital letters (.JPG) work with > pdflatex (bug 2235). > > - Fix LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes > > - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623). > > * Math editor: > > - Fix metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc. (bug 2036). > > - Fix undo in matrices. > > - Fix crash when deleting last row of an equation (bug 2655) > > * User Interface: > > - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460). > > - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac. > > - Don't jump back to previous cursor position when trying to click on > an inset (bug 2526). > > - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of LyX support > directory in windows. > > - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed for it is not yet supported > and makes LyX crash (bug 2597). > > - Fix crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular > (bug 2603). > > - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the > language has sometimes be changed. This is fixed now. > > - Text copied from an ERT box has no longer the pseudo "latex" language > (bug 2476). > > - Fix crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in CT mode. > > - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents > with different change tracking status (bug 2207). > > - Fix crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking > markup due to the bug above (bug 2614). > > - Fix remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting multiple > paragraphs (bug 2516). > > - Fix display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line > (bug 2508). > > - Fix crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a > table. > > - Fix crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604). > > - Fix crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure" > error message on linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029). > > * Configuration/Installation: > > - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version > lib/configure.py. > > - It is not needed anymore to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX > support directory. > > - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file > lyxrc.init (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than > either lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run > before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences. > > - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with > --with-version-suffix (bug 2285). > > - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces. > > - Use the clean_dvi.py script on windows not only in the installer but also > in the source package. > - Fix the code to find interface localization under Windows and Mac OS X. > > - remove --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression > support via zlib is now a requirement. > > - When compiling with --with-version-suffix under windows, do not > rename the executable files. > > - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD. > > -- Martin Vermeer Phone +358 (0)9 451 3910 TKK Surveying Dept., Institute of Geodesy :wq
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