1 What's new in version 2.2.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
7 * HiDPI display support
9 * New text display algorithm
10 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
11 * Improved text color support
13 * Reworked instant preview
14 * Enhanced source panel
15 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
16 * Enhanced language support
17 * New supported languages
18 * New supported LaTeX commands
21 * New preferences settings
25 What's new in version 2.1.4?
26 ----------------------------
28 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
30 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
31 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
32 to upgrade to this version.
35 What's new in version 2.1.3?
36 ----------------------------
38 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
40 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
41 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
42 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
45 What's new in version 2.1.2?
46 ----------------------------
48 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
50 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
51 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
52 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
53 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
54 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
55 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
58 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
59 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
60 of older beamer documents easier.
63 What's new in version 2.1.1?
64 ----------------------------
66 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
67 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
68 release announcement for the details.
70 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
71 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
72 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
73 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
74 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
75 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
77 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
78 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
79 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
81 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
82 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
83 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
84 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
87 What's new in version 2.1.0?
88 ----------------------------
90 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
91 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
93 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
94 * New supported languages
96 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
97 * Document class categories
98 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
99 * New supported LaTeX commands
100 * New export command-line option
102 * Layout enhancements
104 * Equation Editor "mode"
107 What's new in version 2.0.8?
108 ----------------------------
110 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
111 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
112 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
114 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
115 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
116 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
117 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
118 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
119 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
122 What's new in version 2.0.7?
123 ----------------------------
125 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
126 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
127 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
128 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
131 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
132 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
135 What's new in version 2.0.6?
136 ----------------------------
138 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
139 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
140 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
143 What's new in version 2.0.5?
144 ----------------------------
146 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
147 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
148 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
149 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
152 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
153 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
154 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
155 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
156 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
157 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
158 - Menu functions are unchanged.
161 What's new in version 2.0.4?
162 ----------------------------
164 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
165 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
166 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
167 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
168 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
169 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
172 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
173 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
174 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
175 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
176 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
178 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
179 will continue for 2.0.5.
182 What's new in version 2.0.3?
183 ----------------------------
185 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
186 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
188 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
189 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
190 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
191 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
192 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
194 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
195 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
198 What's new in version 2.0.2?
199 ----------------------------
201 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
202 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
203 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
205 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
206 below for the details.
208 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
211 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
212 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
213 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
214 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
215 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
218 What's new in version 2.0.1?
219 ----------------------------
221 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
222 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
223 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
224 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
225 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
226 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
230 What's new in version 2.0.0?
231 ----------------------------
233 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
234 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
236 * Advanced Search Facility
237 * Spell-checking on the Fly
238 * Compare Documents Feature
240 * Multilingual Thesaurus
242 * Multiple Indices Support
243 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
244 * Enhanced Instant Preview
245 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
246 * Enhanced Version Control Features
247 * Typesetting in background
250 What's new in version 1.6.10?
251 ------------------------------
252 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
253 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
254 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
255 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
256 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
260 What's new in version 1.6.9?
261 -----------------------------
263 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
264 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
265 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
266 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
269 What's new in version 1.6.8?
270 -----------------------------
272 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
273 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
274 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
275 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
278 What's new in version 1.6.7?
279 -----------------------------
281 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
282 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
283 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
284 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
288 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
289 ------------------------------
291 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
292 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
293 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
294 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
297 What's new in version 1.6.6?
298 -----------------------------
300 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
301 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
302 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
303 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
304 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
305 spelling in parallel).
308 What's new in version 1.6.5?
309 -----------------------------
311 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
312 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
313 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
314 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
315 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
318 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
319 -------------------------------
321 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
322 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
325 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
326 -------------------------------
328 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
329 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
330 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
333 What's new in version 1.6.4?
334 -------------------------------
336 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
337 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
340 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
341 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
342 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
343 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
344 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
345 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
346 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
347 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
350 What's new in version 1.6.3?
351 -------------------------------
353 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
354 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
356 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
357 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
358 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
359 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
361 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
362 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
363 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
364 compiled against Qt 4.5.
367 What's new in version 1.6.2?
368 -------------------------------
370 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
371 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
372 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
373 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
374 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
375 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
376 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
379 What's new in version 1.6.1?
380 -------------------------------
382 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
383 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
384 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
388 What's new in version 1.6.0?
389 -------------------------------
391 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
392 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
394 * Multiple Work Areas
396 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
398 * Layout combobox changes
399 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
400 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
402 * New implementation of math macros
407 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
408 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
409 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
414 * Graphics parameters groups
415 * LyX functions manual
416 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
419 What's new in version 1.5.7?
420 ----------------------------
422 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
423 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
424 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
425 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
426 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
427 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
430 What's new in version 1.5.6?
431 ----------------------------
433 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
434 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
435 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
436 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
439 What's new in version 1.5.5?
440 ----------------------------
442 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
443 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
444 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
445 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
446 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
449 What's new in version 1.5.4?
450 ----------------------------
452 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
453 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
454 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
455 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
458 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
459 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
460 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
461 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
462 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
465 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
466 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
467 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
468 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
469 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
470 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
471 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
472 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
475 What's new in version 1.5.3?
476 ----------------------------
478 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
479 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
480 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
481 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
482 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
483 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
484 version also provides some new features.
487 What's new in version 1.5.2?
488 ----------------------------
490 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
491 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
492 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
493 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
496 What's new in version 1.5.1?
497 ----------------------------
499 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
500 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
501 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
502 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
503 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
505 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
508 What's new in version 1.5.0?
509 ----------------------------
511 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
512 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
513 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
517 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
518 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
519 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
520 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
521 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
522 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
523 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
524 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
525 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
526 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
529 * Integrated CJK support
531 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
532 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
533 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
535 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
536 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
537 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
538 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
542 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
543 have full user interface support.
545 * Multiple views of the same buffer
547 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
548 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
549 parts of it synchronously.
551 * Outliner and embedded TOC
553 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
554 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
555 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
556 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
560 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
561 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
562 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
563 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
564 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
565 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
569 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
570 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
573 * New Font Selection Interface
575 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
576 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
577 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
581 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
582 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
583 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
587 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
588 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
589 glossaries and fancy notations.
593 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
595 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
597 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
598 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
599 to the math toolbars.
600 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
601 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
605 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
606 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
607 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
608 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
609 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
610 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
611 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
612 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
615 * Change tracking enhancements
617 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
618 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
620 * Converter file cache
622 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
623 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
624 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
625 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
626 is enabled by default.
628 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
631 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
633 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
635 * Unified Windows installer
637 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
638 both installers are welcome.
642 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
643 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
644 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
646 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
647 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
649 * LaTeX-package support
651 LyX provides the following new document classes:
652 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
653 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
654 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
655 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
656 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
658 * Minor user interface improvements
660 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
662 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
663 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
664 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
666 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
668 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
669 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
670 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
671 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
672 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
673 even after the selection has been cleared.
675 * Limited support for local class and layout files
677 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
678 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
679 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
680 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
681 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
682 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
683 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
687 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
688 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
689 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
690 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
691 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
692 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
693 series has been to bring this speed back.
697 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
698 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
701 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
702 ------------------------------
704 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
705 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
708 What's new in version 1.4.5?
709 ----------------------------
711 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
712 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
713 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
714 python 2.3.4 or later).
717 What's new in version 1.4.4?
718 ----------------------------
720 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
722 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
723 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
725 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
726 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
728 *) Improved documentation.
730 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
733 What's new in version 1.4.3?
734 ----------------------------
736 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
737 support. Notable new features include:
739 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
740 installation anymore.
742 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
743 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
744 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
745 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
747 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
751 What's new in version 1.4.2?
752 ----------------------------
754 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
756 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
757 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
759 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
761 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
762 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
763 be compressed on disk or not.
765 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
766 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
767 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
770 What's new in version 1.4.1?
771 ----------------------------
773 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
775 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
776 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
778 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
781 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
783 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
785 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
786 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
789 What's new in version 1.4.0?
790 ----------------------------
792 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
793 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
794 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
796 ** Improved user interface
798 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
799 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
800 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
801 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
802 classic UI) is still available, for now.
804 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
805 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
806 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
807 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
808 available: one for tables, and one for math.
810 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
811 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
816 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
817 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
818 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
821 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
823 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
824 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
825 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
826 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
830 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
831 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
832 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
833 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
839 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
840 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
841 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
843 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
844 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
845 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
847 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
849 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
850 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
855 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
856 the Insert>Note menu:
858 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
859 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
861 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
862 well, greyed-out text.
864 ** Better language and numbering on screen
866 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
868 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
869 the language of the document, which may be different from the
870 language of the menus;
871 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
872 document class specifications.
876 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
877 count of the document or of the current selection.
881 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
882 of errors popping up at compilation time.
884 ** Improved bibliography support
886 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
887 "before citation" field is supported;
888 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
889 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
891 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
892 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
893 index processor is invoked).
895 ** Improved microtypography support
897 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
899 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
900 between "e." and "g.");
901 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
902 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
903 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
904 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
905 much space between figure/table and caption.
909 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
911 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
914 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
915 edit the included figure
917 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
918 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
922 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
923 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
926 What's new in version 1.3.7?
927 ----------------------------
929 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
930 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
933 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
934 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
936 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
937 installer and in the handling of file names.
939 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
942 What's new in version 1.3.6?
943 ----------------------------
945 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
947 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
948 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
949 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
950 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
951 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
952 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
953 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
955 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
956 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
957 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
959 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
960 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
961 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
962 considered as part of words
966 What's new in version 1.3.5?
967 ----------------------------
969 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
970 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
971 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
972 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
973 case where the files are in different directories.
974 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
976 What's new in version 1.3.4?
977 ----------------------------
979 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
981 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
982 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
983 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
984 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
986 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
987 * The interface and documentation localization have
990 What's new in version 1.3.3?
991 ----------------------------
993 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
995 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
996 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
997 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
998 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
999 the user interface and documentation.
1001 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1002 ----------------------------
1004 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1006 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1008 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1009 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1012 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1013 ----------------------------
1015 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1016 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1017 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1018 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1019 improvements) for good measure.
1023 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1024 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1026 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1027 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1029 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1030 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1031 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1032 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1035 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1036 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1037 (documentation has been updated too)
1039 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1040 spanish translation of menus
1042 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1043 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1044 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1046 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1047 ----------------------------
1049 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1050 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1051 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1052 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1053 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1055 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1056 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1057 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1061 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1062 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1063 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1064 functionally equivalent.
1066 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1067 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1068 symbols displayed properly.
1072 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1073 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1074 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1079 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1080 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1081 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1082 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1083 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1084 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1085 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1086 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1087 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1088 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1092 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1093 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1094 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1095 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1096 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1097 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1098 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1099 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1100 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1101 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1102 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1103 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1104 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1105 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1106 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1108 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1109 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1111 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1112 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1113 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1114 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1115 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1117 ** Reading old files
1119 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1120 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1121 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1122 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1124 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1125 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1126 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1127 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1129 ** Miscellaneous changes
1131 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1132 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1133 configure your font server).
1135 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1136 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1139 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1140 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1143 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1144 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1145 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1149 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1150 ----------------------------
1152 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1153 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1154 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1155 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1159 - updated italian User Guide
1161 - updated french localization
1164 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1165 ----------------------------
1167 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1168 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1173 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1174 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1175 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1177 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1178 when dragging the mouse)
1180 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1181 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1182 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1185 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1186 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1187 who are not aware that it is needed
1189 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1190 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1192 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1193 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1195 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1197 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1199 - update sciword bindings
1201 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1202 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1204 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1208 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1209 ----------------------------
1211 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1212 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1213 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1214 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1219 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1220 when this gets released)
1222 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1223 the performance problems
1225 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1227 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1228 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1229 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1231 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1234 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1235 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1236 help entering of ERT insets)
1238 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1240 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1242 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1244 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1245 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1248 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1250 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1253 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1254 line and have this file created for you
1256 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1257 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1260 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1261 ----------------------------
1263 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1264 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1265 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1266 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1267 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1270 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1271 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1274 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1275 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1278 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1279 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1280 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1282 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1285 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1286 appear in the output.
1288 - New minipage inset
1290 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1291 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1295 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1297 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1298 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1299 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1302 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1306 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1307 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1308 process, among which:
1310 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1312 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1313 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1314 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1316 - support for many amsmath features
1317 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1318 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1319 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1320 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1323 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1325 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1327 - Improvements to the parser
1329 - Improvements to math text mode
1331 - (Better) support for nested macros
1333 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1335 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1337 - GUI support provided for many more features
1340 Other changes include:
1342 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1345 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1346 improved in the process
1348 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1349 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1350 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1352 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1355 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1356 "shelfful", or many german words
1358 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1359 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1360 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1361 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1363 - Updated documentation
1365 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1368 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1370 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1372 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1374 - Babel can be disabled
1376 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1378 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1379 ------------------------------------
1381 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1385 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1387 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1388 appears to be more suitable.
1390 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1391 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1393 - add support for dvipdfm
1395 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1396 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1398 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1401 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1403 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1406 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1408 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1411 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1412 ------------------------------------
1414 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1418 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1421 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1422 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1424 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1427 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1428 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1430 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1431 Theoretical Computer Science
1433 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1435 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1436 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1438 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1439 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1440 with the older version
1443 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1444 ------------------------------------
1446 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1450 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1452 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1453 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1454 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1456 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1457 documentation update.
1459 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1462 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1463 ------------------------------------
1465 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1469 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1470 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1472 - better support for ukrainian language
1474 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1475 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1477 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1478 line-delete-forward.
1480 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1482 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1485 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1486 --------------------------------
1488 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1489 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1490 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1492 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1493 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1494 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1495 from the older development version:
1497 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1498 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1499 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1500 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1501 have been overhauled.
1503 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1506 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1507 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1509 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1511 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1512 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1513 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1515 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1517 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1518 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1519 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1520 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1521 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1522 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1523 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1525 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1526 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1527 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1530 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1531 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1532 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1533 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1534 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1535 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1537 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1538 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1539 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1540 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1541 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1543 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1545 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1547 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1548 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1549 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1550 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1551 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1552 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1554 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1556 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1559 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1560 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1562 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1563 mentioned here for your information
1565 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1566 (this can be changed in preferences).
1568 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1573 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1574 --------------------------------
1576 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1577 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1578 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1580 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1581 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1583 User-visible changes:
1585 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1587 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1589 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1591 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1593 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1594 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1596 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1597 command-line/window:
1598 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1600 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1601 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1603 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1605 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1607 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1609 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1610 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1611 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1612 (And you probably had the error always.)
1614 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1616 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1617 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1619 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1621 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1622 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1623 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1624 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1626 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1628 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1629 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1631 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1632 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1634 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1635 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1636 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1637 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1640 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1641 --------------------------------
1643 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1644 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1645 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1648 In the user-visible department, we find:
1650 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1651 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1652 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1653 the GUI pops up during the process...
1655 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1657 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1658 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1660 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1661 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1662 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1663 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1665 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1668 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1669 --------------------------------
1671 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1672 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1674 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1675 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1676 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1678 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1679 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1682 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1685 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1687 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1688 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1689 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1690 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1691 for the sake of correctness.
1693 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1694 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1696 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1697 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1699 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1701 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1703 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1705 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1706 --------------------------------
1708 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1710 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1711 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1712 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1714 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1716 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1718 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1720 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1721 has also been fixed.
1723 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1724 --------------------------------
1726 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1727 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1728 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1729 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1730 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1731 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1733 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1735 - New export to HTML feature
1737 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1739 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1740 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1741 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1743 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1744 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1745 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1747 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1748 --------------------------------------------------
1750 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1751 new features has been included:
1757 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1759 - Several language files updated.
1761 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1763 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1764 --------------------------------------------------
1766 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1768 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1771 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1773 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1775 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1776 --------------------------------------------------
1778 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1779 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1781 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1783 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1784 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1786 - Better multipart document support.
1788 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1791 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1794 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1795 --------------------------------------------------
1797 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1798 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1800 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1802 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1804 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1806 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1808 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1812 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1813 ----------------------------------------------------
1815 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1816 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1818 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1819 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1820 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1821 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1822 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1824 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1825 footnotes, and generally better output.
1827 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1828 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1829 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1830 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1831 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1833 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1834 and error message translations) for several languages.
1836 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1837 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1838 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1840 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1842 - Improved table support.
1844 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1846 - easier handling of index entries.
1848 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1849 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1850 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1851 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1854 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1855 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as