3 This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.5.5
4 All comments are welcome.
6 I'd be glad if some of you could take the time to check it out (or fix
7 a bug or two if you are feeling adventurous). Let me recall that all
8 these fixes have been checked into the BRANCH_1_5_X branch, which you
9 can get with the command
10 svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X lyx-1.5.x
14 [In this list, I try to group things by topic and in decreasing
15 order of importance. This is, of course, subjective...]
25 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
27 - New Spanish translation of the math manual.
29 - New French translation of the documentation file "Formula-numbering.lyx".
31 - Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, and
32 Romanian translation of the user interface.
34 - Updated German User's Guide and Extended manual.
36 - Updated French User's Guide.
38 - Updated Italian Intro manual.
43 - Add support for the bm package.
45 - New layout files "article (beamer)" and "article (koma + beamer)" that
46 support beamer's article mode.
48 - Allow using the \binom command without the amsmath package.
50 - Add support for \brace and \brack commands in mathed.
53 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
55 - New import option for comma-separated-value files.
57 - Add support for the HTML-to-LaTeX converters gnuhtml2latex and
58 htmltolatex (bug 4615).
60 - The commands \makeatletter and \makeatother are now only added to the
61 preamble when actually needed.
63 - The command \textcolor is now converted when importing LaTeX files
66 - Global line spacing settings are now imported when importing LaTeX
69 - The command \lyxline is now converted when importing LaTeX files
75 - A metafile (EMF/WMF) to EPS conversion tool is included.
76 This tool uses a virtual printer called "Metafile to EPS Converter".
78 - Full support for installation on a per-user basis, including limited
81 - Required files of ImageMagick and Ghostscript will be installed in the
87 - New configure option --enable-build-type allows to set all
88 compilation options for release, prerelease or development builds.
89 Please see the INSTALL file for more details.
95 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
97 - Fix LaTeX import of aligned consecutive paragraphs (bug 4806).
99 - Fix font size handling when importing LaTeX files (bug 4803 and
102 - After an inset, don't always revert to the language's default encoding
103 for latex output, but honor that specified in the document settings
106 - Close font macros (such as \emph) before comments, greyedout, framed
107 and shaded notes, thus fixing a problem where documents couldn't be
110 - Fix LaTeX error "unknown color 'ignore'" when setting text style
111 attributes in mathed (bug 4091).
113 - Assure amsthm is loaded if a theorem is defined with \theoremstyle.
115 - Fix LaTeX errors triggered by switching from ams article to ams plain
118 - Fix drawing of top and bottom rules in formal tables (bug 4554).
120 - Fix reversion of OHM and ANGSTROM characters to LyX < 1.5.0 (rest of
123 - Check for the LaTeX packages "nicefrac" and "units" that are used by
126 - Check for PDF->PS, PDF->EPS and PS->EPS converters and use them (bug
129 - Stop warning messages when a local layout file is opened. Fix bugs
130 caused by incorrect reloading of local layout files.
132 - Use verbose htlatex command instead of oolatex, if available, since the
133 latter caused problems on some systems (bug 4604).
135 - Use package amsbsy for bold math symbols obtained through the \boldsymbol
136 macro, such that bold super and subscripts have the correct size even
137 when not using the complete amsmath package.
139 - Fix loading of lyx documents generated with csv2lyx (bug 4639).
141 - Move \label{} outside of listings option caption={} because the listings
142 package prefers a separate label={} option.
144 - Set the correct encoding when an ASCII encoded LaTeX file is imported
147 - Parse the command \makebox correctly when importing LaTeX files
150 - Import global paragraph settings correctly when importing LaTeX files
153 - Use style guide-conforming headings in the APA layout (bug 4827).
158 - Fix a crash on startup with Qt 4.4 (bug 4568).
160 - Fix a crash that occured on some OSes when the character '{' was
161 inserted in the advanced input of the listings dialog (bug 4780).
163 - Fix an assertion with compressed image files that do not have a
166 - Fix an assertion with incorrect argument for '-sysdir' command-line
169 - Correctly apply font changes when several math matrix cells are selected
172 - Allow deleting a label in a formula as well as the numbering with the
173 delete key (bug 2556).
175 - Allow to enter starred math commands such as \tag* (bug 4584).
177 - Load amsmath when \tag or \tag* is used (bug 4586).
179 - Fix parameter input of the math commands \makebox and \framebox (bug
182 - When cutting a selection do not leave a dangling paragraph (bug 3995).
184 - Improve the behaviour when inserting a collapsable inset over a multi-
187 - Fix the automatic uncollapsing of outliner during updates (bug 3740).
189 - Correctly handle quotation marks in command preferences (bug 2016).
191 - Remove the menu entries to swap rows/columns as this feature is not
194 - Fix wrong focusing of buttons in search dialog (bug 4194).
196 - Disallow some Note variants in places where they would result in LaTeX
197 errors (part of bug 4180).
199 - Use *.* to select all files in the file selection dialog on Windows.
200 Using shortcuts for navigation is now possible.
202 - Fix \Vert symbol in the math panel (part of bug 4720).
204 - correct numbering inside multiline environments (bug 518).
206 - Fix typo in the script TeXFiles.py that scans for TeX files.
208 - Remove the menu entry Insert -> Math -> Toggle math panels, since
209 it actually does not insert anything and its functionality is covered
210 by menu View - > Toolbars -> Math Panels (bug 4765).
215 - Fix LaTeX errors in the Spanish Tutorial, UserGuide, and Intro manual.
218 - correct shortcuts for math fonts in section 11.1
219 - fix the description of the command \tag in section 19.4
221 - Man page: document -geometry option, update Copyright date (bug 4740).
223 - The tex2lyx man page was completely outdated and referred to reLyX in many
224 places (bug 2770). It has been cleaned up, but it is still outdated in
228 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
230 - fix the 'make check' target in src/support; one of the checks still
233 - fix the problems with compilation on gcc 4.3.0 with disabled pch headers.
235 - fix some compilation warnings.