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List:       lyx-announce
Subject:    prerelease 1.1.5pre1 is out.
From:       larsbj () lyx ! org (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)
Date:       2000-04-27 8:31:56
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The long awaited first prerelease of 1.1.5 is finally out.

This is from news:

Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. 
We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
and expand.

User-visible changes:

- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
  only and is likely to improve in future versions.

- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable wrom the
  command-line/window:
      paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]

- More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.

- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).

- Better definition for LyXList style.

- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
  1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
  spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
  support is of course not supported in older versions.

- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.

- Some commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore
  (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)

- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
  screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
  by lyx should be stored. 

A note on the file format change for protected spaces: If you load a
document with protected spaces into LyX 1.1.5pre1 and save it, it will
no longer load properly in 1.1.4. so remember to make a backup. If you
forgot the backup please try this small sed script:

   sed -e 's/\\SpecialChar \\protected_separator/\\protected_separator/' \
   < newformat.lyx > oldformat.lyx

(without the last '\' and on one line of course)

You can get the last prerelease at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5pre1.tar.gz

I am sure rpm's will be announced soon.

As always when trying out new versions, backup your documents. There
has been some reports on crashing during cut & paste and we are trying
to track those down. So please try this prerelease and help us find
the remaining errors.

	Lgb

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