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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Towards LyX 1.3.2 [status update #2]
From:       Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes () inria ! fr>
Date:       2003-04-30 16:33:59
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I think I am ready to release LyX 1.3.2 now. "Ready" means that I want
to relelase it on friday if I can.

Find the latest info below.

JMarc

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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 1.3.2
All comments are welcome.

You can find a list of bugs pending for 1.3.2 at URL
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&&target_milestone=1.3.2


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_3_X, which you
can get with the command
  cvs checkout -d lyx-1_3_x -r BRANCH_1_3_X lyx-devel

JMarc

[In this list, I try to group things by topics, and in decreasing
importance order. This is of course subjective...]

What's new
==========

** Updates

- The spell-checking system has been over-hauled, including the following
  changes :

  o start spell-checking immediately on pressing F7
  o xform's broken start/stop button removed
  o better spell progress feedback
  o long hang on ispell error changed
  o infinite hang on ispell error fixed
  o reports ispell errors back to the user
  o the personal dictionaries are always correctly written out
  o "Accept" button became "Ignore All" for clarity

- add support for the hspell spell-checker for hebrew [Qt only]

- add support for scalable tabfolders and for 'native' tooltips
  in browser widgets. You must recompile against xforms 1.0.2 or greater
  to enable these new features [xforms only]

- update dutch, finnish, german, polish [bug #1002], romanian, russian
  and spanish interface localisation. Add support for nynorsk. Fix
  Help>Table of Contents.

** Bug fixes

- attempting to navigate to deleted text via the TOC dialog no longer
  crash [bug #913]

- fix a new crash in 1.3.1 on OK in External dialog [Qt only]

- fix mismatch between section depth and TOC depth in Document dialog
  [Qt only]

- fix float placement text not being updated in Document dialog [Qt only]

- fix duplicate keyboard accelerator in the paragraph dialog [Qt only]

- in the include dialog, make "show preview" activate the OK button
  [Qt only]

- fix display of bullet pixmaps in document dialog [bug #908, Qt 3.1.1 only]

- fix loading of included files that are under revision control

- the Home/End keys no longer mark the document as "(changed)"

- the window title no longer wrongly marks document paths as coming from ~/
  [bug 993]

- fix reading of subcaptions (in graphics inset) that contain explicit
  double quote characters [bug #656]

- fix reading of subcaptions in files from LyX 1.1.6 or older

- add a converter from grace (.agr) files to PPM, in order to display
  them in xforms frontend

- fix support for \framebox macro in mathed: the argument is handled
  as text, and a second optional argument is now supported

- text-mode parts of math equations are now drawn in foreground color
  instead of being hardcoded to black

- add support for macro \bmod in mathed

- add macro \Pr in the list of selectable functions of the math panel

- fix document class for mwbk textclass

- fix a couple of layouts in llncs [Bug #1068]

- fix building of xforms dialogs' source on SMP machines [Bug #944,
  xforms only]

- fix bug in generation of the RPM spec file for the Qt frontend

- make automatic generation of autoscripts optional; this was annoying
  for patches.

- fix building on cygwin

- fix building on NetBSD [bug #1007]


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