But it seems to me that those LaTeX front-ends are a bit schizophrenic. Knuth designed it, and that LaTeX does a decent job at making TeX a little more usable. Posted 21:48 UTC (Thu) by DeletedUser1650 ((unknown), #1650)įirst of all, I want to thank the LyX developpers for their continued good work in making LaTeX a more generally useful tool.īut then, I want to ask a question which I think is important: why is there so much work and investment in developping user-interface layers over LaTeX, and so little in good projects free of the TeX legacy? Here I do not speak only of LyX, but also of other projects with a similar goal, like whizzyTeX, or the various LaTeX editing environments.ĭo not misunderstand me, I agree that TeX was an considerable breakthrough in computer typography, back when D. There are some (rare) problems with older documents, especially concerningįloating figures and the use of minipages. Recent version of the ImageMagick package installed. If you are having problems displaying figures in LyX, make sure you have a Mostĭocuments will load in 1.2.0 without problems. Nevertheless recommended that you keep backups of important documents. You should have no problems upgrading from LyX versions 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. The problems affecting figure previews, due to ghostscript and xforms,Ī work around for long tab names in dialogs has been included. Several problems with LaTeX output from LyX documents no longer occur. New document classes dtk, ltugboat, spie and svprobth.Ī large number of math editor fixes have been made.Ī number of obscure drawing errors and crash problems have been fixed, and LaTeX import, ligature break support, an English thesaurus, and more. Other new features include document bookmarks, parsing LaTeX pre-ambles on Many dialogs and other LyX features have had major usability improvements. GUI support provided for many more features Relevant fonts have been made available to the X server possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (andĪlso the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts) as long as the The math editor has been mostly rewritten, leading to many new features, such Support for natbib citations has been added, and more facilities have been Improvements to the graphics code has been made. Up converters to allow previews of any input format (for example, LyX canĭisplay inline previews of figures generated from Grace). The speed and usability problems with tables that remained in 1.1.6 have almostĪ powerful new graphics system has been included. Supports both short and long sections of LaTeX commands in an intuitive manner. ![]() This allows the user to fold LaTeX text away just like a float, and Notes insets can contain arbitrary objects.Ī new ERT mode replaces the old LaTeX font and LaTeX environment method ofġ.1.6. A new minipage facility has beenĪdded to make minipage management easy and powerful. Major improvements have been made to the handling of "insets" such asįootnotes, margin notes, and figure floats. ![]() If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,įirst check out, and e-mail the LyX user's list if you If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.2.0, you may eitherĮ-mail the LyX user's mailing list or open ![]() Note that there is no patch, due to the amount of changes. Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) are available This release has far too many bugfixes and new features to listĬomprehensively, but some are listed below. Cc: too long a wait, the LyX team are pleased to announce the new stable
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