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 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
20 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
22 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
23 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
25 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
27 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
29 - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
31 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
33 - Better definition for LyXList style.
35 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
36 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
37 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
38 support is of course not supported in older versions.
40 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
42 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
43 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
45 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
46 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
47 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
48 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
53 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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56 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
57 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
58 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
61 In the user-visible department, we find:
63 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
64 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
65 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
66 the GUI pops up during the process...
68 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
70 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
71 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
73 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
74 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
75 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
76 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
78 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
81 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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84 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
85 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
87 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
88 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
89 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
91 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
92 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
95 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
98 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
100 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
101 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
102 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
103 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
104 for the sake of correctness.
106 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
107 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
109 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
110 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
112 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
114 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
116 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
118 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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121 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
123 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
124 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
125 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
127 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
129 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
131 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
133 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
136 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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139 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
140 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
141 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
142 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
143 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
144 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
146 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
148 - New export to HTML feature
150 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
152 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
153 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
154 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
156 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
157 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
158 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
160 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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163 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
164 new features has been included:
170 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
172 - Several language files updated.
174 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
176 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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179 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
181 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
184 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
186 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
188 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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191 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
192 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
194 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
196 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
197 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
199 - Better multipart document support.
201 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
204 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
207 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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210 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
211 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
213 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
215 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
217 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
219 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
221 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
225 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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228 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
229 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
231 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
232 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
233 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
234 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
235 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
237 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
238 footnotes, and generally better output.
240 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
241 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
242 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
243 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
244 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
246 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
247 and error message translations) for several languages.
249 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
250 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
251 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
253 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
255 - Improved table support.
257 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
259 - easier handling of index entries.
261 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
262 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
263 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
264 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
267 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
268 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as