1 What's new in version 2.1.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
7 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
8 * New supported languages
10 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
11 * Document class categories
12 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
13 * New supported LaTeX commands
14 * New export command-line option
18 * Equation Editor "mode"
21 What's new in version 2.0.7?
22 ----------------------------
24 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
25 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
26 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
27 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
30 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
31 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
34 What's new in version 2.0.6?
35 ----------------------------
37 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
38 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
39 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
42 What's new in version 2.0.5?
43 ----------------------------
45 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
46 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
47 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
48 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
51 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
52 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
53 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
54 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
55 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
56 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
57 - Menu functions are unchanged.
60 What's new in version 2.0.4?
61 ----------------------------
63 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
64 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
65 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
67 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
68 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
71 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
72 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
73 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
74 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
75 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
77 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
78 will continue for 2.0.5.
81 What's new in version 2.0.3?
82 ----------------------------
84 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
85 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
87 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
88 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
89 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
90 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
91 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
93 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
94 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
97 What's new in version 2.0.2?
98 ----------------------------
100 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
101 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
102 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
104 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
105 below for the details.
107 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
110 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
111 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
112 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
113 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
114 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
117 What's new in version 2.0.1?
118 ----------------------------
120 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
121 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
122 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
123 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
124 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
125 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
129 What's new in version 2.0.0?
130 ----------------------------
132 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
133 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
135 * Advanced Search Facility
136 * Spell-checking on the Fly
137 * Compare Documents Feature
139 * Multilingual Thesaurus
141 * Multiple Indices Support
142 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
143 * Enhanced Instant Preview
144 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
145 * Enhanced Version Control Features
146 * Typesetting in background
149 What's new in version 1.6.10?
150 ------------------------------
151 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
152 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
153 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
154 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
155 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
159 What's new in version 1.6.9?
160 -----------------------------
162 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
163 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
164 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
165 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
168 What's new in version 1.6.8?
169 -----------------------------
171 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
172 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
173 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
174 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
177 What's new in version 1.6.7?
178 -----------------------------
180 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
181 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
182 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
183 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
187 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
188 ------------------------------
190 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
191 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
192 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
193 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
196 What's new in version 1.6.6?
197 -----------------------------
199 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
200 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
201 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
202 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
203 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
204 spelling in parallel).
207 What's new in version 1.6.5?
208 -----------------------------
210 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
211 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
212 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
213 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
214 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
217 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
218 -------------------------------
220 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
221 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
224 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
225 -------------------------------
227 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
228 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
229 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
232 What's new in version 1.6.4?
233 -------------------------------
235 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
236 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
239 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
240 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
241 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
242 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
243 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
244 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
245 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
246 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
249 What's new in version 1.6.3?
250 -------------------------------
252 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
253 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
255 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
256 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
257 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
258 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
260 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
261 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
262 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
263 compiled against Qt 4.5.
266 What's new in version 1.6.2?
267 -------------------------------
269 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
270 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
271 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
272 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
273 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
274 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
275 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
278 What's new in version 1.6.1?
279 -------------------------------
281 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
282 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
283 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
287 What's new in version 1.6.0?
288 -------------------------------
290 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
291 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
293 * Multiple Work Areas
295 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
297 * Layout combobox changes
298 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
299 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
301 * New implementation of math macros
306 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
307 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
308 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
313 * Graphics parameters groups
314 * LyX functions manual
315 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
318 What's new in version 1.5.7?
319 ----------------------------
321 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
322 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
323 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
324 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
325 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
326 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
329 What's new in version 1.5.6?
330 ----------------------------
332 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
333 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
334 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
335 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
338 What's new in version 1.5.5?
339 ----------------------------
341 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
342 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
343 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
344 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
345 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
348 What's new in version 1.5.4?
349 ----------------------------
351 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
352 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
353 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
354 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
357 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
358 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
359 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
360 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
361 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
364 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
365 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
366 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
367 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
368 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
369 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
370 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
371 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
374 What's new in version 1.5.3?
375 ----------------------------
377 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
378 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
379 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
380 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
381 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
382 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
383 version also provides some new features.
386 What's new in version 1.5.2?
387 ----------------------------
389 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
390 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
391 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
392 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
395 What's new in version 1.5.1?
396 ----------------------------
398 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
399 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
400 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
401 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
402 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
404 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
407 What's new in version 1.5.0?
408 ----------------------------
410 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
411 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
412 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
416 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
417 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
418 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
419 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
420 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
421 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
422 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
423 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
424 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
425 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
428 * Integrated CJK support
430 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
431 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
432 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
434 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
435 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
436 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
437 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
441 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
442 have full user interface support.
444 * Multiple views of the same buffer
446 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
447 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
448 parts of it synchronously.
450 * Outliner and embedded TOC
452 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
453 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
454 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
455 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
459 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
460 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
461 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
462 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
463 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
464 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
468 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
469 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
472 * New Font Selection Interface
474 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
475 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
476 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
480 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
481 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
482 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
486 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
487 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
488 glossaries and fancy notations.
492 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
494 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
496 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
497 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
498 to the math toolbars.
499 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
500 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
504 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
505 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
506 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
507 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
508 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
509 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
510 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
511 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
514 * Change tracking enhancements
516 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
517 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
519 * Converter file cache
521 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
522 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
523 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
524 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
525 is enabled by default.
527 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
530 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
532 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
534 * Unified Windows installer
536 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
537 both installers are welcome.
541 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
542 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
543 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
545 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
546 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
548 * LaTeX-package support
550 LyX provides the following new document classes:
551 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
552 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
553 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
554 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
555 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
557 * Minor user interface improvements
559 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
561 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
562 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
563 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
565 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
567 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
568 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
569 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
570 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
571 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
572 even after the selection has been cleared.
574 * Limited support for local class and layout files
576 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
577 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
578 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
579 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
580 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
581 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
582 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
586 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
587 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
588 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
589 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
590 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
591 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
592 series has been to bring this speed back.
596 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
597 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
600 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
601 ------------------------------
603 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
604 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
607 What's new in version 1.4.5?
608 ----------------------------
610 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
611 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
612 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
613 python 2.3.4 or later).
616 What's new in version 1.4.4?
617 ----------------------------
619 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
621 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
622 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
624 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
625 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
627 *) Improved documentation.
629 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
632 What's new in version 1.4.3?
633 ----------------------------
635 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
636 support. Notable new features include:
638 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
639 installation anymore.
641 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
642 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
643 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
644 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
646 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
650 What's new in version 1.4.2?
651 ----------------------------
653 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
655 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
656 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
658 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
660 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
661 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
662 be compressed on disk or not.
664 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
665 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
666 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
669 What's new in version 1.4.1?
670 ----------------------------
672 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
674 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
675 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
677 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
680 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
682 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
684 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
685 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
688 What's new in version 1.4.0?
689 ----------------------------
691 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
692 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
693 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
695 ** Improved user interface
697 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
698 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
699 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
700 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
701 classic UI) is still available, for now.
703 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
704 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
705 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
706 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
707 available: one for tables, and one for math.
709 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
710 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
715 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
716 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
717 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
720 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
722 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
723 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
724 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
725 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
729 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
730 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
731 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
732 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
738 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
739 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
740 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
742 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
743 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
744 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
746 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
748 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
749 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
754 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
755 the Insert>Note menu:
757 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
758 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
760 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
761 well, greyed-out text.
763 ** Better language and numbering on screen
765 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
767 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
768 the language of the document, which may be different from the
769 language of the menus;
770 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
771 document class specifications.
775 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
776 count of the document or of the current selection.
780 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
781 of errors popping up at compilation time.
783 ** Improved bibliography support
785 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
786 "before citation" field is supported;
787 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
788 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
790 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
791 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
792 index processor is invoked).
794 ** Improved microtypography support
796 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
798 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
799 between "e." and "g.");
800 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
801 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
802 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
803 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
804 much space between figure/table and caption.
808 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
810 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
813 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
814 edit the included figure
816 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
817 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
821 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
822 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
825 What's new in version 1.3.7?
826 ----------------------------
828 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
829 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
832 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
833 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
835 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
836 installer and in the handling of file names.
838 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
841 What's new in version 1.3.6?
842 ----------------------------
844 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
846 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
847 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
848 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
849 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
850 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
851 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
852 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
854 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
855 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
856 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
858 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
859 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
860 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
861 considered as part of words
865 What's new in version 1.3.5?
866 ----------------------------
868 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
869 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
870 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
871 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
872 case where the files are in different directories.
873 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
875 What's new in version 1.3.4?
876 ----------------------------
878 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
880 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
881 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
882 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
883 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
885 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
886 * The interface and documentation localization have
889 What's new in version 1.3.3?
890 ----------------------------
892 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
894 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
895 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
896 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
897 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
898 the user interface and documentation.
900 What's new in version 1.3.2?
901 ----------------------------
903 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
905 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
907 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
908 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
911 What's new in version 1.3.1?
912 ----------------------------
914 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
915 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
916 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
917 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
918 improvements) for good measure.
922 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
923 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
925 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
926 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
928 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
929 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
930 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
931 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
934 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
935 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
936 (documentation has been updated too)
938 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
939 spanish translation of menus
941 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
942 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
943 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
945 What's new in version 1.3.0?
946 ----------------------------
948 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
949 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
950 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
951 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
952 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
954 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
955 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
956 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
960 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
961 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
962 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
963 functionally equivalent.
965 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
966 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
967 symbols displayed properly.
971 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
972 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
973 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
978 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
979 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
980 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
981 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
982 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
983 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
984 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
985 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
986 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
987 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
991 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
992 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
993 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
994 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
995 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
996 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
997 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
998 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
999 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1000 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1001 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1002 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1003 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1004 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1005 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1007 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1008 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1010 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1011 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1012 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1013 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1014 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1016 ** Reading old files
1018 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1019 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1020 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1021 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1023 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1024 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1025 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1026 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1028 ** Miscellaneous changes
1030 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1031 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1032 configure your font server).
1034 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1035 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1038 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1039 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1042 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1043 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1044 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1048 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1049 ----------------------------
1051 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1052 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1053 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1054 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1058 - updated italian User Guide
1060 - updated french localization
1063 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1064 ----------------------------
1066 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1067 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1072 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1073 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1074 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1076 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1077 when dragging the mouse)
1079 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1080 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1081 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1084 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1085 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1086 who are not aware that it is needed
1088 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1089 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1091 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1092 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1094 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1096 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1098 - update sciword bindings
1100 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1101 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1103 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1107 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1108 ----------------------------
1110 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1111 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1112 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1113 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1118 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1119 when this gets released)
1121 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1122 the performance problems
1124 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1126 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1127 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1128 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1130 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1133 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1134 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1135 help entering of ERT insets)
1137 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1139 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1141 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1143 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1144 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1147 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1149 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1152 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1153 line and have this file created for you
1155 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1156 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1159 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1160 ----------------------------
1162 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1163 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1164 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1165 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1166 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1169 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1170 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1173 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1174 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1177 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1178 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1179 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1181 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1184 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1185 appear in the output.
1187 - New minipage inset
1189 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1190 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1194 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1196 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1197 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1198 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1201 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1205 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1206 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1207 process, among which:
1209 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1211 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1212 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1213 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1215 - support for many amsmath features
1216 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1217 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1218 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1219 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1222 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1224 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1226 - Improvements to the parser
1228 - Improvements to math text mode
1230 - (Better) support for nested macros
1232 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1234 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1236 - GUI support provided for many more features
1239 Other changes include:
1241 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1244 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1245 improved in the process
1247 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1248 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1249 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1251 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1254 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1255 "shelfful", or many german words
1257 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1258 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1259 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1260 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1262 - Updated documentation
1264 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1267 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1269 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1271 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1273 - Babel can be disabled
1275 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1277 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1278 ------------------------------------
1280 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1284 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1286 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1287 appears to be more suitable.
1289 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1290 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1292 - add support for dvipdfm
1294 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1295 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1297 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1300 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1302 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1305 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1307 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1310 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1311 ------------------------------------
1313 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1317 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1320 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1321 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1323 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1326 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1327 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1329 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1330 Theoretical Computer Science
1332 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1334 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1335 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1337 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1338 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1339 with the older version
1342 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1343 ------------------------------------
1345 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1349 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1351 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1352 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1353 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1355 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1356 documentation update.
1358 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1361 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1362 ------------------------------------
1364 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1368 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1369 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1371 - better support for ukrainian language
1373 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1374 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1376 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1377 line-delete-forward.
1379 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1381 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1384 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1385 --------------------------------
1387 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1388 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1389 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1391 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1392 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1393 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1394 from the older development version:
1396 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1397 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1398 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1399 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1400 have been overhauled.
1402 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1405 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1406 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1408 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1410 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1411 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1412 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1414 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1416 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1417 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1418 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1419 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1420 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1421 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1422 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1424 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1425 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1426 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1429 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1430 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1431 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1432 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1433 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1434 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1436 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1437 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1438 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1439 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1440 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1442 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1444 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1446 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1447 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1448 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1449 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1450 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1451 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1453 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1455 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1458 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1459 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1461 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1462 mentioned here for your information
1464 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1465 (this can be changed in preferences).
1467 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1472 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1473 --------------------------------
1475 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1476 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1477 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1479 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1480 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1482 User-visible changes:
1484 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1486 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1488 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1490 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1492 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1493 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1495 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1496 command-line/window:
1497 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1499 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1500 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1502 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1504 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1506 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1508 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1509 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1510 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1511 (And you probably had the error always.)
1513 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1515 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1516 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1518 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1520 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1521 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1522 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1523 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1525 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1527 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1528 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1530 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1531 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1533 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1534 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1535 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1536 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1539 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1540 --------------------------------
1542 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1543 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1544 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1547 In the user-visible department, we find:
1549 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1550 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1551 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1552 the GUI pops up during the process...
1554 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1556 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1557 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1559 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1560 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1561 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1562 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1564 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1567 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1568 --------------------------------
1570 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1571 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1573 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1574 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1575 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1577 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1578 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1581 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1584 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1586 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1587 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1588 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1589 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1590 for the sake of correctness.
1592 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1593 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1595 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1596 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1598 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1600 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1602 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1604 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1605 --------------------------------
1607 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1609 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1610 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1611 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1613 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1615 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1617 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1619 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1620 has also been fixed.
1622 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1623 --------------------------------
1625 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1626 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1627 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1628 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1629 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1630 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1632 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1634 - New export to HTML feature
1636 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1638 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1639 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1640 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1642 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1643 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1644 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1646 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1647 --------------------------------------------------
1649 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1650 new features has been included:
1656 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1658 - Several language files updated.
1660 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1662 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1663 --------------------------------------------------
1665 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1667 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1670 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1672 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1674 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1675 --------------------------------------------------
1677 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1678 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1680 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1682 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1683 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1685 - Better multipart document support.
1687 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1690 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1693 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1694 --------------------------------------------------
1696 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1697 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1699 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1701 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1703 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1705 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1707 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1711 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1712 ----------------------------------------------------
1714 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1715 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1717 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1718 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1719 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1720 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1721 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1723 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1724 footnotes, and generally better output.
1726 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1727 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1728 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1729 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1730 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1732 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1733 and error message translations) for several languages.
1735 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1736 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1737 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1739 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1741 - Improved table support.
1743 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1745 - easier handling of index entries.
1747 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1748 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1749 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1750 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1753 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1754 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as