LyX 1.5.4

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Name: LyX
Version: 1.5.4
Type: KDE Text Processing
Depend: Qt 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://www.lyx.org
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9811

Description:
 LyX is a document processor that encourages an
approach to writing based on the structure of your
documents, not their appearance.

LyX is for people that write and want their
writing to look great, right out of the box. No
more endless tinkering with formatting details,
'finger painting' font attributes or fuzzing
around with page boundaries. You just write. In
the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX
typesetting engine makes you look good.

On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its
printed output -- or richly cross-referenced PDF,
just as readily produced -- looks like nothing
else. Gone are the days of industrially bland
.docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet
coming out unpredictably different on different
printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
'eating'Â your dissertation the evening before
going to press.

LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a
multi-platform, fully internationalized
application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

Changelog:
 CHANGES in 1.5.4:
===================

This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual
stability improvements and fixes, this release
comes with major improvements in the handling of
Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
scripts, and introduces some minor new features
(such as a character count option).

While this release continues the stable 1.5.x
series, work on the next
major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha
version of LyX 1.6.0
will be released later this week for those who
like the bleeding edge experience. Notwithstanding
this, expect one or two more 1.5.x versions
to be released, of which the last one will be able
to read the 1.6 format.

All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to
upgrade to this 
version.

Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX
package 'floatflt' to
'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
problem that limited
the availability of the former package. In
general, this should improve your documents
containing wrap figures, however, it is possible
that the look and positioning of the floats
changes due to the package change. If
you have documents with wrap floats, please make a
backup before upgrading
and check the output.

Please refer to
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_5_4.txt for a
detailed list of changes against version 1.5.3