1 What's new in version 2.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
8 * Multiple bibliographies
10 * Quotation marks enhancements
11 * Updates to reference handling
12 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
14 * New supported languages
15 * New supported LaTeX commands
16 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
17 * Automatic detection of file changes
18 * Citation & reference dialogs
19 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
20 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
21 * Outliner and navigation menu
22 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
24 * Code preview & highlighting
27 What's new in version 2.2.2?
28 ----------------------------
30 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
32 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
33 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
34 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
36 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
37 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
39 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
40 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
41 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
42 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
46 What's new in version 2.2.1?
47 ----------------------------
49 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
51 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
52 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
53 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
54 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
55 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
58 What's new in version 2.2.0?
59 ----------------------------
61 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
62 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
64 * HiDPI display support
66 * New text display algorithm
67 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
68 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
69 * Improved text color support
71 * Improved table context menu
72 * Reworked instant preview
73 * Enhanced source panel
74 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
75 * Enhanced language support
76 * New supported languages
77 * New supported LaTeX commands
80 * New preferences settings
84 What's new in version 2.1.5?
85 ----------------------------
87 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
88 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
90 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
91 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
92 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
95 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
96 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
97 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
98 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
101 What's new in version 2.1.4?
102 ----------------------------
104 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
106 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
107 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
108 to upgrade to this version.
111 What's new in version 2.1.3?
112 ----------------------------
114 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
116 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
117 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
118 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
121 What's new in version 2.1.2?
122 ----------------------------
124 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
126 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
127 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
128 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
129 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
130 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
131 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
134 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
135 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
136 of older beamer documents easier.
139 What's new in version 2.1.1?
140 ----------------------------
142 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
143 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
144 release announcement for the details.
146 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
147 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
148 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
149 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
150 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
151 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
153 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
154 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
155 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
157 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
158 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
159 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
160 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
163 What's new in version 2.1.0?
164 ----------------------------
166 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
167 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
169 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
170 * New supported languages
171 * Tex Fonts Additions
172 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
173 * Document class categories
174 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
175 * New supported LaTeX commands
176 * New export command-line option
178 * Layout enhancements
180 * Equation Editor "mode"
183 What's new in version 2.0.8?
184 ----------------------------
186 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
187 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
188 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
190 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
191 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
192 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
193 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
194 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
195 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
198 What's new in version 2.0.7?
199 ----------------------------
201 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
202 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
203 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
204 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
207 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
208 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
211 What's new in version 2.0.6?
212 ----------------------------
214 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
215 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
216 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
219 What's new in version 2.0.5?
220 ----------------------------
222 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
223 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
224 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
225 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
228 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
229 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
230 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
231 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
232 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
233 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
234 - Menu functions are unchanged.
237 What's new in version 2.0.4?
238 ----------------------------
240 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
241 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
242 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
243 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
244 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
245 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
248 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
249 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
250 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
251 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
252 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
254 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
255 will continue for 2.0.5.
258 What's new in version 2.0.3?
259 ----------------------------
261 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
262 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
264 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
265 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
266 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
267 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
268 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
270 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
271 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
274 What's new in version 2.0.2?
275 ----------------------------
277 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
278 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
279 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
281 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
282 below for the details.
284 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
287 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
288 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
289 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
290 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
291 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
294 What's new in version 2.0.1?
295 ----------------------------
297 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
298 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
299 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
300 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
301 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
302 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
306 What's new in version 2.0.0?
307 ----------------------------
309 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
310 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
312 * Advanced Search Facility
313 * Spell-checking on the Fly
314 * Compare Documents Feature
316 * Multilingual Thesaurus
318 * Multiple Indices Support
319 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
320 * Enhanced Instant Preview
321 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
322 * Enhanced Version Control Features
323 * Typesetting in background
326 What's new in version 1.6.10?
327 ------------------------------
328 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
329 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
330 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
331 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
332 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
336 What's new in version 1.6.9?
337 -----------------------------
339 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
340 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
341 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
342 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
345 What's new in version 1.6.8?
346 -----------------------------
348 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
349 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
350 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
351 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
354 What's new in version 1.6.7?
355 -----------------------------
357 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
358 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
359 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
360 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
364 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
365 ------------------------------
367 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
368 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
369 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
370 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
373 What's new in version 1.6.6?
374 -----------------------------
376 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
377 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
378 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
379 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
380 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
381 spelling in parallel).
384 What's new in version 1.6.5?
385 -----------------------------
387 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
388 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
389 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
390 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
391 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
394 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
395 -------------------------------
397 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
398 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
401 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
402 -------------------------------
404 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
405 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
406 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
409 What's new in version 1.6.4?
410 -------------------------------
412 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
413 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
416 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
417 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
418 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
419 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
420 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
421 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
422 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
423 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
426 What's new in version 1.6.3?
427 -------------------------------
429 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
430 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
432 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
433 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
434 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
435 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
437 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
438 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
439 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
440 compiled against Qt 4.5.
443 What's new in version 1.6.2?
444 -------------------------------
446 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
447 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
448 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
449 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
450 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
451 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
452 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
455 What's new in version 1.6.1?
456 -------------------------------
458 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
459 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
460 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
464 What's new in version 1.6.0?
465 -------------------------------
467 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
468 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
470 * Multiple Work Areas
472 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
474 * Layout combobox changes
475 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
476 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
478 * New implementation of math macros
483 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
484 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
485 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
490 * Graphics parameters groups
491 * LyX functions manual
492 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
495 What's new in version 1.5.7?
496 ----------------------------
498 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
499 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
500 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
501 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
502 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
503 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
506 What's new in version 1.5.6?
507 ----------------------------
509 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
510 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
511 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
512 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
515 What's new in version 1.5.5?
516 ----------------------------
518 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
519 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
520 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
521 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
522 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
525 What's new in version 1.5.4?
526 ----------------------------
528 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
529 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
530 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
531 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
534 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
535 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
536 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
537 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
538 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
541 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
542 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
543 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
544 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
545 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
546 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
547 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
548 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
551 What's new in version 1.5.3?
552 ----------------------------
554 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
555 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
556 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
557 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
558 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
559 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
560 version also provides some new features.
563 What's new in version 1.5.2?
564 ----------------------------
566 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
567 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
568 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
569 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
572 What's new in version 1.5.1?
573 ----------------------------
575 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
576 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
577 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
578 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
579 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
581 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
584 What's new in version 1.5.0?
585 ----------------------------
587 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
588 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
589 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
593 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
594 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
595 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
596 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
597 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
598 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
599 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
600 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
601 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
602 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
605 * Integrated CJK support
607 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
608 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
609 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
611 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
612 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
613 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
614 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
618 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
619 have full user interface support.
621 * Multiple views of the same buffer
623 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
624 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
625 parts of it synchronously.
627 * Outliner and embedded TOC
629 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
630 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
631 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
632 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
636 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
637 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
638 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
639 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
640 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
641 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
645 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
646 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
649 * New Font Selection Interface
651 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
652 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
653 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
657 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
658 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
659 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
663 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
664 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
665 glossaries and fancy notations.
669 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
671 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
673 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
674 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
675 to the math toolbars.
676 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
677 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
681 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
682 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
683 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
684 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
685 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
686 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
687 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
688 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
691 * Change tracking enhancements
693 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
694 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
696 * Converter file cache
698 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
699 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
700 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
701 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
702 is enabled by default.
704 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
707 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
709 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
711 * Unified Windows installer
713 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
714 both installers are welcome.
718 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
719 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
720 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
722 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
723 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
725 * LaTeX-package support
727 LyX provides the following new document classes:
728 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
729 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
730 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
731 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
732 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
734 * Minor user interface improvements
736 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
738 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
739 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
740 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
742 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
744 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
745 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
746 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
747 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
748 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
749 even after the selection has been cleared.
751 * Limited support for local class and layout files
753 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
754 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
755 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
756 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
757 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
758 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
759 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
763 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
764 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
765 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
766 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
767 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
768 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
769 series has been to bring this speed back.
773 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
774 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
777 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
778 ------------------------------
780 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
781 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
784 What's new in version 1.4.5?
785 ----------------------------
787 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
788 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
789 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
790 python 2.3.4 or later).
793 What's new in version 1.4.4?
794 ----------------------------
796 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
798 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
799 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
801 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
802 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
804 *) Improved documentation.
806 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
809 What's new in version 1.4.3?
810 ----------------------------
812 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
813 support. Notable new features include:
815 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
816 installation anymore.
818 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
819 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
820 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
821 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
823 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
827 What's new in version 1.4.2?
828 ----------------------------
830 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
832 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
833 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
835 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
837 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
838 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
839 be compressed on disk or not.
841 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
842 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
843 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
846 What's new in version 1.4.1?
847 ----------------------------
849 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
851 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
852 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
854 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
857 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
859 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
861 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
862 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
865 What's new in version 1.4.0?
866 ----------------------------
868 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
869 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
870 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
872 ** Improved user interface
874 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
875 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
876 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
877 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
878 classic UI) is still available, for now.
880 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
881 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
882 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
883 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
884 available: one for tables, and one for math.
886 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
887 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
892 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
893 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
894 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
897 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
899 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
900 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
901 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
902 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
906 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
907 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
908 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
909 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
915 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
916 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
917 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
919 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
920 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
921 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
923 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
925 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
926 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
931 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
932 the Insert>Note menu:
934 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
935 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
937 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
938 well, greyed-out text.
940 ** Better language and numbering on screen
942 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
944 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
945 the language of the document, which may be different from the
946 language of the menus;
947 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
948 document class specifications.
952 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
953 count of the document or of the current selection.
957 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
958 of errors popping up at compilation time.
960 ** Improved bibliography support
962 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
963 "before citation" field is supported;
964 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
965 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
967 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
968 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
969 index processor is invoked).
971 ** Improved microtypography support
973 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
975 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
976 between "e." and "g.");
977 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
978 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
979 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
980 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
981 much space between figure/table and caption.
985 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
987 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
990 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
991 edit the included figure
993 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
994 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
998 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
999 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1002 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1003 ----------------------------
1005 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1006 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1009 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1010 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1012 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1013 installer and in the handling of file names.
1015 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1018 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1019 ----------------------------
1021 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1023 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1024 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1025 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1026 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1027 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1028 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1029 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1031 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1032 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1033 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1035 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1036 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1037 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1038 considered as part of words
1042 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1043 ----------------------------
1045 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1046 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1047 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1048 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1049 case where the files are in different directories.
1050 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1052 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1053 ----------------------------
1055 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1057 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1058 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1059 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1060 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1062 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1063 * The interface and documentation localization have
1066 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1067 ----------------------------
1069 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1071 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1072 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1073 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1074 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1075 the user interface and documentation.
1077 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1078 ----------------------------
1080 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1082 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1084 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1085 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1088 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1089 ----------------------------
1091 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1092 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1093 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1094 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1095 improvements) for good measure.
1099 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1100 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1102 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1103 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1105 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1106 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1107 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1108 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1111 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1112 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1113 (documentation has been updated too)
1115 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1116 spanish translation of menus
1118 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1119 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1120 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1122 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1123 ----------------------------
1125 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1126 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1127 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1128 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1129 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1131 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1132 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1133 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1137 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1138 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1139 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1140 functionally equivalent.
1142 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1143 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1144 symbols displayed properly.
1148 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1149 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1150 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1155 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1156 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1157 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1158 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1159 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1160 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1161 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1162 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1163 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1164 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1168 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1169 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1170 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1171 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1172 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1173 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1174 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1175 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1176 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1177 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1178 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1179 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1180 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1181 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1182 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1184 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1185 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1187 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1188 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1189 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1190 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1191 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1193 ** Reading old files
1195 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1196 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1197 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1198 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1200 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1201 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1202 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1203 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1205 ** Miscellaneous changes
1207 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1208 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1209 configure your font server).
1211 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1212 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1215 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1216 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1219 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1220 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1221 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1225 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1226 ----------------------------
1228 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1229 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1230 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1231 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1235 - updated italian User Guide
1237 - updated french localization
1240 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1241 ----------------------------
1243 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1244 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1249 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1250 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1251 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1253 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1254 when dragging the mouse)
1256 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1257 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1258 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1261 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1262 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1263 who are not aware that it is needed
1265 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1266 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1268 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1269 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1271 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1273 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1275 - update sciword bindings
1277 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1278 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1280 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1284 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1285 ----------------------------
1287 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1288 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1289 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1290 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1295 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1296 when this gets released)
1298 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1299 the performance problems
1301 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1303 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1304 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1305 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1307 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1310 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1311 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1312 help entering of ERT insets)
1314 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1316 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1318 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1320 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1321 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1324 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1326 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1329 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1330 line and have this file created for you
1332 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1333 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1336 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1337 ----------------------------
1339 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1340 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1341 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1342 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1343 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1346 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1347 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1350 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1351 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1354 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1355 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1356 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1358 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1361 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1362 appear in the output.
1364 - New minipage inset
1366 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1367 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1371 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1373 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1374 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1375 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1378 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1382 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1383 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1384 process, among which:
1386 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1388 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1389 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1390 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1392 - support for many amsmath features
1393 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1394 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1395 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1396 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1399 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1401 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1403 - Improvements to the parser
1405 - Improvements to math text mode
1407 - (Better) support for nested macros
1409 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1411 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1413 - GUI support provided for many more features
1416 Other changes include:
1418 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1421 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1422 improved in the process
1424 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1425 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1426 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1428 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1431 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1432 "shelfful", or many german words
1434 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1435 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1436 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1437 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1439 - Updated documentation
1441 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1444 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1446 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1448 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1450 - Babel can be disabled
1452 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1454 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1455 ------------------------------------
1457 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1461 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1463 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1464 appears to be more suitable.
1466 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1467 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1469 - add support for dvipdfm
1471 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1472 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1474 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1477 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1479 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1482 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1484 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1487 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1488 ------------------------------------
1490 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1494 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1497 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1498 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1500 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1503 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1504 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1506 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1507 Theoretical Computer Science
1509 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1511 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1512 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1514 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1515 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1516 with the older version
1519 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1520 ------------------------------------
1522 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1526 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1528 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1529 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1530 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1532 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1533 documentation update.
1535 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1538 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1539 ------------------------------------
1541 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1545 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1546 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1548 - better support for ukrainian language
1550 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1551 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1553 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1554 line-delete-forward.
1556 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1558 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1561 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1562 --------------------------------
1564 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1565 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1566 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1568 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1569 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1570 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1571 from the older development version:
1573 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1574 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1575 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1576 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1577 have been overhauled.
1579 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1582 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1583 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1585 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1587 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1588 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1589 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1591 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1593 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1594 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1595 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1596 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1597 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1598 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1599 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1601 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1602 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1603 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1606 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1607 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1608 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1609 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1610 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1611 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1613 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1614 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1615 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1616 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1617 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1619 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1621 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1623 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1624 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1625 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1626 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1627 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1628 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1630 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1632 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1635 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1636 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1638 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1639 mentioned here for your information
1641 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1642 (this can be changed in preferences).
1644 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1649 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1650 --------------------------------
1652 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1653 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1654 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1656 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1657 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1659 User-visible changes:
1661 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1663 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1665 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1667 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1669 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1670 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1672 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1673 command-line/window:
1674 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1676 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1677 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1679 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1681 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1683 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1685 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1686 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1687 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1688 (And you probably had the error always.)
1690 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1692 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1693 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1695 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1697 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1698 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1699 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1700 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1702 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1704 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1705 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1707 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1708 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1710 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1711 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1712 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1713 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1716 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1717 --------------------------------
1719 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1720 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1721 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1724 In the user-visible department, we find:
1726 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1727 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1728 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1729 the GUI pops up during the process...
1731 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1733 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1734 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1736 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1737 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1738 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1739 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1741 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1744 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1745 --------------------------------
1747 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1748 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1750 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1751 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1752 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1754 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1755 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1758 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1761 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1763 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1764 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1765 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1766 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1767 for the sake of correctness.
1769 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1770 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1772 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1773 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1775 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1777 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1779 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1781 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1782 --------------------------------
1784 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1786 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1787 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1788 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1790 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1792 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1794 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1796 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1797 has also been fixed.
1799 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1800 --------------------------------
1802 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1803 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1804 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1805 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1806 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1807 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1809 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1811 - New export to HTML feature
1813 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1815 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1816 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1817 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1819 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1820 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1821 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1823 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1824 --------------------------------------------------
1826 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1827 new features has been included:
1833 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1835 - Several language files updated.
1837 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1839 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1840 --------------------------------------------------
1842 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1844 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1847 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1849 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1851 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1852 --------------------------------------------------
1854 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1855 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1857 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1859 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1860 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1862 - Better multipart document support.
1864 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1867 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1870 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1871 --------------------------------------------------
1873 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1874 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1876 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1878 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1880 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1882 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1884 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1888 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1889 ----------------------------------------------------
1891 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1892 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1894 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1895 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1896 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1897 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1898 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1900 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1901 footnotes, and generally better output.
1903 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1904 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1905 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1906 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1907 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1909 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1910 and error message translations) for several languages.
1912 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1913 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1914 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1916 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1918 - Improved table support.
1920 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1922 - easier handling of index entries.
1924 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1925 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1926 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1927 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1930 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1931 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as