Public release of LyX version 2.0.4
===
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.4. This is the fourth
maintenance release in the 2.0.x series.
LyX 2.0.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all
LyX users to upgrade to this version.
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
You can download LyX 2.0.4 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.4, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel lists.lyx.org), or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.0.4.
The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org
What's new in LyX 2.0.4
===
Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be
done, and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
will continue for 2.0.5.
We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
git://git.lyx.org/lyx
Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
for details.
What's new
==
** Updates:
***
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Add support for \subsubsection and \subsubsection* in beamer layout.
- Made some minor improvements to the include_bib.py script.
- Case environments provided by theorem modules should now nest
properly (bug 7611).
- Allow makebeamerinfo script export beamer info (to be used by Impressive)
(bug 8018).
- Output unicode glyph MICRO SIGN upright in mathed (bug 8153).
- Remove wrong support for unicode glyph HYPHENATION POINT (bug 8153).
- Add support for unicode glyph LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE.
- Export contents of included files rather than just an indication that
there
was an excluded file (bug 8087).
- Added LibreOffice to list of detected ODT viewers/editors.
* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS
- Support for the LaTeX-command \sindex (for split indexes).
- Better support for XeTeX and LuaTeX documents: automatically set default
encoding to utf-8 and select support for non-TeX fonts.
* USER INTERFACE
- New option to show only the preamble when viewing source (bug 7860).
- Graphics insets show filename as a tooltip now.
- New command for forward search with SumatraPDF without the need of an
external DDE program (requires SumatraPDF version 1.9 or higher).
- When a command takes too long to complete, ask the user for what to do
instead of automatically stopping it after a timeout interval (bug 8032).
- Recognize geany, leafpad and mousepad as viewers (bug #8021).
- Improved example and layout file for Seminar slide documents (bug 7624).
- Allow dead caron to be used in our key bindings (bug 8198).
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- Updated Basque, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Nynnorsk, Slovakian,
Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localization.
- Fixed on-screen display of nested enumerations in Spanish and Galician
documents.
- Improved template file iop-article.lyx.
- EmbeddedObjects manual:
- New section how to color every second table row.
- New section how rotate table cells by a custom angle.
- Cleaned up the Customization manual a bit.
- Linguistics manual: document shortcomings (and workarounds) of glosses.
** Bug fixes:
*
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Fix crash when saving a child document to a new name/directory and
attempting
to view/export the document afterwards (bug 8161).
- Fixed an infinite loop when exporting a file with list or bibliography
environments to DocBook (bug 7914).
- Fixed reading the bounding box from EPS figures with negative
values (bug 8114).
- Fix generation of auxiliary files for converters specifying the needaux
flag by using the same latex backend used for previewing the document
instead of always using the plain latex backend.
- When configuring LyX, check for all LaTeX-packages LyX uses to display
symbols (bug 8102).
- Fix the naming of some temporary files such that they are created
in LyX's temporary directory.
- Fixed XHTML outpu
