1 What's new in version 2.4.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.4 are detailed in
5 https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
7 * DocBook 5 / ePub / XHTML 5 support
8 * Default Unicode for new documents
9 * Table improvements (styles and other)
10 * Redesign of Find/Replace dialog
11 * Flexible text fields
13 * Global float settings
14 * Insets external editing
16 * Qt 5 default, Qt 6 supported, Qt 4 dropped
20 What's new in version 2.3.7?
21 ----------------------------
23 LyX 2.3.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
24 more reliable and more stable. Since it has been quite a long time (for
25 unsurprising reasons) since the last update, this one contains more fixes
26 than usual. We have fixed a number of crashes.
28 What's new in version 2.3.6?
29 ----------------------------
31 LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
32 result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
33 more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
34 but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
36 One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
37 new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
38 possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
39 table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
42 What's new in version 2.3.5?
43 ----------------------------
45 LyX 2.3.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
47 LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
48 reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a
49 few important bugs have now been fixed.
51 One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected
52 and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported
53 configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete
54 (and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed.
57 What's new in version 2.3.4?
58 ----------------------------
60 LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
62 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
63 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
64 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
65 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
66 Dropbox folders and another involving missing included files.
69 What's new in version 2.3.3?
70 ----------------------------
72 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
74 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
75 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
76 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
77 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
78 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
79 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
82 What's new in version 2.3.2?
83 ----------------------------
85 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
87 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
88 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
89 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
90 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
91 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
92 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental.
95 What's new in version 2.3.1?
96 ----------------------------
98 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
100 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
101 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
102 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
104 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
105 python 2.x and python 3.x.
107 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
108 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
109 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
110 using the default keybindings).
114 What's new in version 2.3.0?
115 ----------------------------
117 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
118 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
121 * Multiple bibliographies
123 * Quotation marks enhancements
124 * Updates to reference handling
125 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
127 * New supported languages
128 * New supported LaTeX commands
129 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
130 * Automatic detection of file changes
131 * Citation & reference dialogs
132 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
133 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
134 * Outliner and navigation menu
135 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
137 * Code preview & highlighting
141 What's new in version 2.2.3?
142 ----------------------------
144 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
146 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
147 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
148 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
149 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
152 What's new in version 2.2.2?
153 ----------------------------
155 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
157 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
158 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
159 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
161 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
162 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
164 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
165 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
166 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
167 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
171 What's new in version 2.2.1?
172 ----------------------------
174 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
176 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
177 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
178 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
179 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
180 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
183 What's new in version 2.2.0?
184 ----------------------------
186 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
187 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
189 * HiDPI display support
191 * New text display algorithm
192 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
193 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
194 * Improved text color support
195 * Improved box dialog
196 * Improved table context menu
197 * Reworked instant preview
198 * Enhanced source panel
199 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
200 * Enhanced language support
201 * New supported languages
202 * New supported LaTeX commands
203 * Layout enhancements
204 * Module enhancements
205 * New preferences settings
209 What's new in version 2.1.5?
210 ----------------------------
212 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
213 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
215 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
216 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
217 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
220 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
221 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
222 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
223 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
226 What's new in version 2.1.4?
227 ----------------------------
229 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
231 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
232 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
233 to upgrade to this version.
236 What's new in version 2.1.3?
237 ----------------------------
239 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
241 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
242 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
243 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
246 What's new in version 2.1.2?
247 ----------------------------
249 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
251 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
252 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
253 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
254 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
255 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
256 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
259 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
260 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
261 of older beamer documents easier.
264 What's new in version 2.1.1?
265 ----------------------------
267 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
268 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
269 release announcement for the details.
271 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
272 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
273 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
274 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
275 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
276 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
278 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
279 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
280 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
282 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
283 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
284 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
285 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
288 What's new in version 2.1.0?
289 ----------------------------
291 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
292 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
294 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
295 * New supported languages
296 * Tex Fonts Additions
297 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
298 * Document class categories
299 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
300 * New supported LaTeX commands
301 * New export command-line option
303 * Layout enhancements
305 * Equation Editor "mode"
308 What's new in version 2.0.8?
309 ----------------------------
311 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
312 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
313 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
315 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
316 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
317 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
318 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
319 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
320 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
323 What's new in version 2.0.7?
324 ----------------------------
326 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
327 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
328 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
329 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
332 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
333 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
336 What's new in version 2.0.6?
337 ----------------------------
339 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
340 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
341 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
344 What's new in version 2.0.5?
345 ----------------------------
347 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
348 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
349 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
350 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
353 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
354 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
355 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
356 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
357 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
358 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
359 - Menu functions are unchanged.
362 What's new in version 2.0.4?
363 ----------------------------
365 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
366 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
367 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
368 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
369 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
370 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
373 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
374 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
375 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
376 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
377 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
379 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
380 will continue for 2.0.5.
383 What's new in version 2.0.3?
384 ----------------------------
386 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
387 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
389 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
390 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
391 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
392 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
393 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
395 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
396 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
399 What's new in version 2.0.2?
400 ----------------------------
402 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
403 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
404 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
406 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
407 below for the details.
409 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
412 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
413 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
414 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
415 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
416 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
419 What's new in version 2.0.1?
420 ----------------------------
422 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
423 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
424 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
425 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
426 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
427 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
431 What's new in version 2.0.0?
432 ----------------------------
434 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
435 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
437 * Advanced Search Facility
438 * Spell-checking on the Fly
439 * Compare Documents Feature
441 * Multilingual Thesaurus
443 * Multiple Indices Support
444 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
445 * Enhanced Instant Preview
446 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
447 * Enhanced Version Control Features
448 * Typesetting in background
451 What's new in version 1.6.10?
452 ------------------------------
453 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
454 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
455 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
456 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
457 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
461 What's new in version 1.6.9?
462 -----------------------------
464 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
465 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
466 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
467 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
470 What's new in version 1.6.8?
471 -----------------------------
473 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
474 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
475 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
476 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
479 What's new in version 1.6.7?
480 -----------------------------
482 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
483 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
484 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
485 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
489 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
490 ------------------------------
492 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
493 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
494 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
495 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
498 What's new in version 1.6.6?
499 -----------------------------
501 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
502 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
503 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
504 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
505 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
506 spelling in parallel).
509 What's new in version 1.6.5?
510 -----------------------------
512 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
513 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
514 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
515 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
516 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
519 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
520 -------------------------------
522 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
523 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
526 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
527 -------------------------------
529 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
530 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
531 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
534 What's new in version 1.6.4?
535 -------------------------------
537 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
538 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
541 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
542 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
543 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
544 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
545 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
546 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
547 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
548 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
551 What's new in version 1.6.3?
552 -------------------------------
554 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
555 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
557 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
558 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
559 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
560 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
562 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
563 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
564 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
565 compiled against Qt 4.5.
568 What's new in version 1.6.2?
569 -------------------------------
571 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
572 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
573 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
574 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
575 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
576 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
577 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
580 What's new in version 1.6.1?
581 -------------------------------
583 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
584 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
585 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
589 What's new in version 1.6.0?
590 -------------------------------
592 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
593 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
595 * Multiple Work Areas
597 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
599 * Layout combobox changes
600 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
601 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
603 * New implementation of math macros
608 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
609 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
610 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
615 * Graphics parameters groups
616 * LyX functions manual
617 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
620 What's new in version 1.5.7?
621 ----------------------------
623 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
624 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
625 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
626 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
627 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
628 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
631 What's new in version 1.5.6?
632 ----------------------------
634 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
635 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
636 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
637 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
640 What's new in version 1.5.5?
641 ----------------------------
643 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
644 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
645 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
646 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
647 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
650 What's new in version 1.5.4?
651 ----------------------------
653 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
654 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
655 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
656 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
659 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
660 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
661 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
662 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
663 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
666 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
667 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
668 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
669 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
670 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
671 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
672 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
673 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
676 What's new in version 1.5.3?
677 ----------------------------
679 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
680 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
681 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
682 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
683 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
684 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
685 version also provides some new features.
688 What's new in version 1.5.2?
689 ----------------------------
691 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
692 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
693 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
694 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
697 What's new in version 1.5.1?
698 ----------------------------
700 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
701 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
702 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
703 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
704 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
706 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
709 What's new in version 1.5.0?
710 ----------------------------
712 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
713 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
714 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
718 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
719 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
720 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
721 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
722 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
723 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
724 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
725 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
726 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
727 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
730 * Integrated CJK support
732 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
733 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
734 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
736 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
737 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
738 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
739 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
743 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
744 have full user interface support.
746 * Multiple views of the same buffer
748 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
749 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
750 parts of it synchronously.
752 * Outliner and embedded TOC
754 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
755 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
756 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
757 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
761 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
762 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
763 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
764 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
765 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
766 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
770 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
771 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
774 * New Font Selection Interface
776 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
777 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
778 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
782 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
783 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
784 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
788 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
789 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
790 glossaries and fancy notations.
794 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
796 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
798 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
799 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
800 to the math toolbars.
801 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
802 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
806 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
807 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
808 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
809 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
810 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
811 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
812 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
813 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
816 * Change tracking enhancements
818 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
819 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
821 * Converter file cache
823 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
824 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
825 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
826 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
827 is enabled by default.
829 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
832 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
834 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
836 * Unified Windows installer
838 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
839 both installers are welcome.
843 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
844 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
845 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
847 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
848 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
850 * LaTeX-package support
852 LyX provides the following new document classes:
853 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
854 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
855 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
856 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
857 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
859 * Minor user interface improvements
861 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
863 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
864 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
865 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
867 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
869 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
870 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
871 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
872 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
873 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
874 even after the selection has been cleared.
876 * Limited support for local class and layout files
878 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
879 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
880 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
881 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
882 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
883 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
884 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
888 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
889 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
890 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
891 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
892 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
893 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
894 series has been to bring this speed back.
898 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
899 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
902 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
903 ------------------------------
905 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
906 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
909 What's new in version 1.4.5?
910 ----------------------------
912 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
913 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
914 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
915 python 2.3.4 or later).
918 What's new in version 1.4.4?
919 ----------------------------
921 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
923 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
924 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
926 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
927 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
929 *) Improved documentation.
931 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
934 What's new in version 1.4.3?
935 ----------------------------
937 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
938 support. Notable new features include:
940 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
941 installation anymore.
943 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
944 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
945 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
946 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
948 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
952 What's new in version 1.4.2?
953 ----------------------------
955 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
957 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
958 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
960 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
962 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
963 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
964 be compressed on disk or not.
966 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
967 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
968 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
971 What's new in version 1.4.1?
972 ----------------------------
974 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
976 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
977 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
979 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
982 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
984 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
986 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
987 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
990 What's new in version 1.4.0?
991 ----------------------------
993 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
994 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
995 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
997 ** Improved user interface
999 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
1000 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
1001 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
1002 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
1003 classic UI) is still available, for now.
1005 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
1006 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
1007 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
1008 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
1009 available: one for tables, and one for math.
1011 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
1012 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1017 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1018 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1019 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1022 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1024 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1025 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1026 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1027 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1031 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1032 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1033 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1034 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1040 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1041 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1042 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1044 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1045 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1046 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1048 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1050 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1051 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1056 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1057 the Insert>Note menu:
1059 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1060 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1062 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1063 well, greyed-out text.
1065 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1067 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1069 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1070 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1071 language of the menus;
1072 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1073 document class specifications.
1077 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1078 count of the document or of the current selection.
1082 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1083 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1085 ** Improved bibliography support
1087 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1088 "before citation" field is supported;
1089 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1090 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1092 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1093 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1094 index processor is invoked).
1096 ** Improved microtypography support
1098 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1100 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1101 between "e." and "g.");
1102 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1103 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1104 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1105 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1106 much space between figure/table and caption.
1110 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1112 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1115 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1116 edit the included figure
1118 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1119 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1123 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1124 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1127 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1128 ----------------------------
1130 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1131 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1134 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1135 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1137 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1138 installer and in the handling of file names.
1140 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1143 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1144 ----------------------------
1146 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1148 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1149 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1150 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1151 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1152 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1153 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1154 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1156 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1157 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1158 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1160 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1161 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1162 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1163 considered as part of words
1167 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1168 ----------------------------
1170 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1171 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1172 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1173 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1174 case where the files are in different directories.
1175 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1177 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1178 ----------------------------
1180 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1182 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1183 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1184 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1185 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1187 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1188 * The interface and documentation localization have
1191 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1192 ----------------------------
1194 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1196 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1197 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1198 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1199 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1200 the user interface and documentation.
1202 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1203 ----------------------------
1205 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1207 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1209 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1210 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1213 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1214 ----------------------------
1216 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1217 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1218 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1219 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1220 improvements) for good measure.
1224 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1225 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1227 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1228 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1230 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1231 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1232 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1233 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1236 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1237 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1238 (documentation has been updated too)
1240 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1241 spanish translation of menus
1243 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1244 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1245 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1247 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1248 ----------------------------
1250 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1251 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1252 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1253 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1254 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1256 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1257 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1258 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1262 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1263 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1264 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1265 functionally equivalent.
1267 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1268 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1269 symbols displayed properly.
1273 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1274 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1275 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1280 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1281 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1282 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1283 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1284 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1285 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1286 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1287 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1288 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1289 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1293 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1294 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1295 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1296 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1297 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1298 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1299 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1300 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1301 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1302 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1303 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1304 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1305 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1306 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1307 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1309 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1310 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1312 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1313 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1314 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1315 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1316 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1318 ** Reading old files
1320 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1321 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1322 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1323 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1325 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1326 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1327 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1328 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1330 ** Miscellaneous changes
1332 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1333 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1334 configure your font server).
1336 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1337 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1340 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1341 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1344 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1345 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1346 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1350 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1351 ----------------------------
1353 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1354 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1355 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1356 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1360 - updated italian User Guide
1362 - updated french localization
1365 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1366 ----------------------------
1368 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1369 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1374 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1375 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1376 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1378 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1379 when dragging the mouse)
1381 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1382 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1383 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1386 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1387 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1388 who are not aware that it is needed
1390 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1391 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1393 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1394 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1396 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1398 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1400 - update sciword bindings
1402 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1403 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1405 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1409 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1410 ----------------------------
1412 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1413 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1414 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1415 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1420 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1421 when this gets released)
1423 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1424 the performance problems
1426 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1428 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1429 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1430 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1432 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1435 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1436 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1437 help entering of ERT insets)
1439 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1441 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1443 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1445 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1446 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1449 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1451 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1454 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1455 line and have this file created for you
1457 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1458 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1461 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1462 ----------------------------
1464 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1465 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1466 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1467 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1468 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1471 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1472 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1475 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1476 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1479 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1480 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1481 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1483 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1486 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1487 appear in the output.
1489 - New minipage inset
1491 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1492 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1496 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1498 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1499 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1500 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1503 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1507 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1508 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1509 process, among which:
1511 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1513 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1514 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1515 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1517 - support for many amsmath features
1518 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1519 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1520 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1521 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1524 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1526 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1528 - Improvements to the parser
1530 - Improvements to math text mode
1532 - (Better) support for nested macros
1534 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1536 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1538 - GUI support provided for many more features
1541 Other changes include:
1543 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1546 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1547 improved in the process
1549 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1550 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1551 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1553 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1556 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1557 "shelfful", or many german words
1559 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1560 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1561 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1562 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1564 - Updated documentation
1566 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1569 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1571 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1573 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1575 - Babel can be disabled
1577 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1579 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1580 ------------------------------------
1582 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1586 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1588 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1589 appears to be more suitable.
1591 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1592 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1594 - add support for dvipdfm
1596 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1597 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1599 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1602 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1604 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1607 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1609 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1612 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1613 ------------------------------------
1615 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1619 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1622 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1623 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1625 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1628 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1629 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1631 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1632 Theoretical Computer Science
1634 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1636 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1637 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1639 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1640 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1641 with the older version
1644 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1645 ------------------------------------
1647 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1651 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1653 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1654 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1655 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1657 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1658 documentation update.
1660 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1663 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1664 ------------------------------------
1666 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1670 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1671 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1673 - better support for ukrainian language
1675 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1676 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1678 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1679 line-delete-forward.
1681 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1683 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1686 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1687 --------------------------------
1689 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1690 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1691 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1693 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1694 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1695 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1696 from the older development version:
1698 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1699 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1700 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1701 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1702 have been overhauled.
1704 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1707 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1708 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1710 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1712 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1713 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1714 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1716 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1718 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1719 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1720 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1721 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1722 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1723 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1724 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1726 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1727 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1728 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1731 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1732 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1733 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1734 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1735 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1736 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1738 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1739 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1740 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1741 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1742 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1744 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1746 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1748 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1749 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1750 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1751 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1752 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1753 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1755 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1757 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1760 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1761 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1763 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1764 mentioned here for your information
1766 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1767 (this can be changed in preferences).
1769 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1774 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1775 --------------------------------
1777 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1778 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1779 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1781 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1782 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1784 User-visible changes:
1786 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1788 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1790 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1792 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1794 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1795 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1797 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1798 command-line/window:
1799 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1801 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1802 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1804 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1806 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1808 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1810 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1811 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1812 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1813 (And you probably had the error always.)
1815 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1817 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1818 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1820 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1822 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1823 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1824 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1825 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1827 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1829 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1830 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1832 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1833 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1835 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1836 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1837 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1838 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1841 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1842 --------------------------------
1844 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1845 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1846 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1849 In the user-visible department, we find:
1851 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1852 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1853 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1854 the GUI pops up during the process...
1856 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1858 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1859 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1861 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1862 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1863 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1864 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1866 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1869 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1870 --------------------------------
1872 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1873 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1875 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1876 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1877 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1879 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1880 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1883 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1886 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1888 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1889 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1890 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1891 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1892 for the sake of correctness.
1894 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1895 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1897 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1898 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1900 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1902 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1904 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1906 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1907 --------------------------------
1909 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1911 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1912 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1913 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1915 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1917 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1919 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1921 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1922 has also been fixed.
1924 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1925 --------------------------------
1927 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1928 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1929 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1930 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1931 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1932 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1934 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1936 - New export to HTML feature
1938 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1940 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1941 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1942 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1944 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1945 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1946 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1948 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1949 --------------------------------------------------
1951 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1952 new features has been included:
1958 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1960 - Several language files updated.
1962 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1964 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1965 --------------------------------------------------
1967 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1969 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1972 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1974 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1976 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1977 --------------------------------------------------
1979 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1980 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1982 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1984 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1985 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1987 - Better multipart document support.
1989 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1992 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1995 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1996 --------------------------------------------------
1998 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1999 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2001 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
2003 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
2005 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
2007 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
2009 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
2013 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
2014 ----------------------------------------------------
2016 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2017 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2019 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2020 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2021 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2022 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2023 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2025 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2026 footnotes, and generally better output.
2028 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2029 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2030 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2031 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2032 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2034 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2035 and error message translations) for several languages.
2037 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2038 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2039 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2041 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2043 - Improved table support.
2045 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2047 - easier handling of index entries.
2049 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2050 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2051 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2052 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2055 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2056 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as