1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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4 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
5 We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
6 this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
8 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
9 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
13 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
15 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
17 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
19 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
21 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
22 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
24 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
25 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
27 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
29 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
31 - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
33 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
35 - Better definition for LyXList style.
37 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
39 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
40 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
41 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
42 support is of course not supported in older versions.
44 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
46 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
47 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
49 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
50 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
52 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
53 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
54 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
55 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
57 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved.
59 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
61 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
62 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
63 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
64 (And you probably had the error always.)
66 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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69 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
70 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
71 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
74 In the user-visible department, we find:
76 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
77 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
78 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
79 the GUI pops up during the process...
81 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
83 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
84 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
86 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
87 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
88 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
89 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
91 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
94 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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97 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
98 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
100 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
101 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
102 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
104 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
105 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
108 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
111 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
113 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
114 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
115 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
116 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
117 for the sake of correctness.
119 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
120 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
122 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
123 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
125 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
127 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
129 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
131 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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134 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
136 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
137 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
138 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
140 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
142 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
144 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
146 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
149 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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152 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
153 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
154 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
155 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
156 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
157 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
159 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
161 - New export to HTML feature
163 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
165 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
166 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
167 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
169 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
170 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
171 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
173 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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176 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
177 new features has been included:
183 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
185 - Several language files updated.
187 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
189 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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192 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
194 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
197 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
199 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
201 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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204 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
205 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
207 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
209 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
210 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
212 - Better multipart document support.
214 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
217 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
220 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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223 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
224 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
226 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
228 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
230 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
232 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
234 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
238 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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241 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
242 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
244 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
245 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
246 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
247 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
248 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
250 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
251 footnotes, and generally better output.
253 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
254 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
255 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
256 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
257 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
259 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
260 and error message translations) for several languages.
262 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
263 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
264 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
266 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
268 - Improved table support.
270 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
272 - easier handling of index entries.
274 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
275 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
276 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
277 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
280 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
281 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as