LyX is een document-opmaaksysteem dat vooral in de academische wereld wordt gebruikt, omdat het eenvoudig formules kan samenstellen en een overzicht van de documentstructuur toont. In tegenstelling tot reguliere tekstverwerkers, zoals Microsoft Word, AbiWord en OpenOffice.org Writer, die het wysiwyg-principe gebruiken, maakt LyX gebruik van wysiwym, zoals dat ook wordt toegepast in TeX/LaTeX en DocBook. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 1.6.6 de deur uit gedaan, voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
LyX 1.6.6 released.
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.6. This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German spelling in parallel).
Please note that there's an unresolved bug (#6680) that might crash LyX when using undo with the outliner opened. This bug only manifests itself when LyX is compiled against Qt 4.6, so we encourage you to compile LyX against Qt 4.5, if possible. Also note that LyX 1.6.6 behaves way better with Qt 4.6 than its predecessors. So despite the aforementioned problem, we urge all distributors who use Qt 4.6 to upgrade to this version. Furthermore, all users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
Please find enclosed an announcement, some sources in tar.gz format (also .tar.bz2) and finally a gzipped patch (in .bz2 too). In a few days there should also be some binaries (mirror server).