1 What's new in version 2.0.0?
2 -------------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
7 * Advanced Search Facility
8 * Spell-checking on the Fly
9 * Compare Documents Feature
11 * Multilingual Thesaurus
13 * Multiple Indices Support
14 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
15 * Enhanced Instant Preview
16 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
17 * Enhanced Version Control Features
19 What's new in version 1.6.7?
20 -----------------------------
22 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
23 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
24 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
25 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
29 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
30 ------------------------------
32 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
33 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
34 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
35 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
38 What's new in version 1.6.6?
39 -----------------------------
41 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
42 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
43 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
44 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
45 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
46 spelling in parallel).
49 What's new in version 1.6.5?
50 -----------------------------
52 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
53 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
54 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
55 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
56 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
59 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
60 -------------------------------
62 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
63 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
66 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
67 -------------------------------
69 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
70 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
71 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
74 What's new in version 1.6.4?
75 -------------------------------
77 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
78 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
81 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
82 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
83 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
84 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
85 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
86 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
87 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
88 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
91 What's new in version 1.6.3?
92 -------------------------------
94 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
95 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
97 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
98 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
99 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
100 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
102 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
103 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
104 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
105 compiled against Qt 4.5.
108 What's new in version 1.6.2?
109 -------------------------------
111 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
112 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
113 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
114 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
115 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
116 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
117 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
120 What's new in version 1.6.1?
121 -------------------------------
123 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
124 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
125 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
129 What's new in version 1.6.0?
130 -------------------------------
132 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
133 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
135 * Multiple Work Areas
137 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
139 * Layout combobox changes
140 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
141 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
143 * New implementation of math macros
148 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
149 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
150 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
155 * Graphics parameters groups
156 * LyX functions manual
157 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
160 What's new in version 1.5.7?
161 ----------------------------
163 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
164 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
165 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
166 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
167 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
168 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
171 What's new in version 1.5.6?
172 ----------------------------
174 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
175 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
176 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
177 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
180 What's new in version 1.5.5?
181 ----------------------------
183 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
184 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
185 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
186 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
187 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
190 What's new in version 1.5.4?
191 ----------------------------
193 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
194 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
195 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
196 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
199 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
200 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
201 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
202 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
203 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
206 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
207 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
208 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
209 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
210 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
211 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
212 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
213 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
216 What's new in version 1.5.3?
217 ----------------------------
219 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
220 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
221 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
222 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
223 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
224 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
225 version also provides some new features.
228 What's new in version 1.5.2?
229 ----------------------------
231 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
232 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
233 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
234 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
237 What's new in version 1.5.1?
238 ----------------------------
240 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
241 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
242 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
243 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
244 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
246 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
249 What's new in version 1.5.0?
250 ----------------------------
252 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
253 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
254 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
258 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
259 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
260 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
261 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
262 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
263 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
264 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
265 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
266 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
267 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
270 * Integrated CJK support
272 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
273 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
274 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
276 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
277 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
278 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
279 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
283 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
284 have full user interface support.
286 * Multiple views of the same buffer
288 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
289 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
290 parts of it synchronously.
292 * Outliner and embedded TOC
294 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
295 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
296 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
297 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
301 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
302 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
303 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
304 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
305 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
306 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
310 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
311 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
314 * New Font Selection Interface
316 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
317 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
318 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
322 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
323 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
324 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
328 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
329 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
330 glossaries and fancy notations.
334 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
336 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
338 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
339 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
340 to the math toolbars.
341 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
342 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
346 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
347 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
348 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
349 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
350 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
351 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
352 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
353 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
356 * Change tracking enhancements
358 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
359 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
361 * Converter file cache
363 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
364 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
365 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
366 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
367 is enabled by default.
369 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
372 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
374 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
376 * Unified Windows installer
378 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
379 both installers are welcome.
383 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
384 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
385 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
387 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
388 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
390 * LaTeX-package support
392 LyX provides the following new document classes:
393 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
394 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
395 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
396 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
397 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
399 * Minor user interface improvements
401 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
403 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
404 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
405 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
407 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
409 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
410 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
411 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
412 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
413 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
414 even after the selection has been cleared.
416 * Limited support for local class and layout files
418 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
419 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
420 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
421 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
422 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
423 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
424 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
428 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
429 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
430 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
431 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
432 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
433 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
434 series has been to bring this speed back.
438 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
439 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
442 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
443 ------------------------------
445 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
446 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
449 What's new in version 1.4.5?
450 ----------------------------
452 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
453 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
454 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
455 python 2.3.4 or later).
458 What's new in version 1.4.4?
459 ----------------------------
461 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
463 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
464 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
466 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
467 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
469 *) Improved documentation.
471 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
474 What's new in version 1.4.3?
475 ----------------------------
477 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
478 support. Notable new features include:
480 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
481 installation anymore.
483 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
484 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
485 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
486 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
488 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
492 What's new in version 1.4.2?
493 ----------------------------
495 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
497 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
498 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
500 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
502 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
503 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
504 be compressed on disk or not.
506 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
507 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
508 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
511 What's new in version 1.4.1?
512 ----------------------------
514 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
516 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
517 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
519 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
522 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
524 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
526 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
527 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
530 What's new in version 1.4.0?
531 ----------------------------
533 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
534 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
535 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
537 ** Improved user interface
539 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
540 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
541 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
542 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
543 classic UI) is still available, for now.
545 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
546 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
547 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
548 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
549 available: one for tables, and one for math.
551 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
552 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
557 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
558 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
559 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
562 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
564 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
565 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
566 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
567 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
571 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
572 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
573 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
574 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
580 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
581 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
582 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
584 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
585 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
586 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
588 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
590 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
591 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
596 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
597 the Insert>Note menu:
599 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
600 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
602 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
603 well, greyed-out text.
605 ** Better language and numbering on screen
607 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
609 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
610 the language of the document, which may be different from the
611 language of the menus;
612 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
613 document class specifications.
617 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
618 count of the document or of the current selection.
622 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
623 of errors popping up at compilation time.
625 ** Improved bibliography support
627 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
628 "before citation" field is supported;
629 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
630 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
632 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
633 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
634 index processor is invoked).
636 ** Improved microtypography support
638 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
640 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
641 between "e." and "g.");
642 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
643 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
644 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
645 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
646 much space between figure/table and caption.
650 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
652 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
655 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
656 edit the included figure
658 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
659 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
663 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
664 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
667 What's new in version 1.3.7?
668 ----------------------------
670 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
671 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
674 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
675 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
677 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
678 installer and in the handling of file names.
680 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
683 What's new in version 1.3.6?
684 ----------------------------
686 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
688 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
689 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
690 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
691 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
692 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
693 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
694 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
696 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
697 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
698 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
700 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
701 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
702 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
703 considered as part of words
707 What's new in version 1.3.5?
708 ----------------------------
710 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
711 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
712 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
713 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
714 case where the files are in different directories.
715 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
717 What's new in version 1.3.4?
718 ----------------------------
720 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
722 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
723 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
724 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
725 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
727 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
728 * The interface and documentation localization have
731 What's new in version 1.3.3?
732 ----------------------------
734 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
736 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
737 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
738 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
739 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
740 the user interface and documentation.
742 What's new in version 1.3.2?
743 ----------------------------
745 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
747 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
749 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
750 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
753 What's new in version 1.3.1?
754 ----------------------------
756 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
757 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
758 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
759 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
760 improvements) for good measure.
764 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
765 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
767 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
768 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
770 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
771 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
772 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
773 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
776 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
777 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
778 (documentation has been updated too)
780 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
781 spanish translation of menus
783 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
784 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
785 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
787 What's new in version 1.3.0?
788 ----------------------------
790 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
791 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
792 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
793 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
794 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
796 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
797 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
798 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
802 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
803 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
804 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
805 functionally equivalent.
807 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
808 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
809 symbols displayed properly.
813 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
814 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
815 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
820 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
821 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
822 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
823 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
824 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
825 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
826 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
827 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
828 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
829 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
833 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
834 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
835 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
836 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
837 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
838 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
839 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
840 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
841 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
842 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
843 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
844 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
845 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
846 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
847 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
849 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
850 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
852 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
853 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
854 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
855 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
856 the inset and press 'backspace'.
860 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
861 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
862 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
863 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
865 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
866 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
867 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
868 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
870 ** Miscellaneous changes
872 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
873 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
874 configure your font server).
876 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
877 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
880 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
881 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
884 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
885 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
886 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
890 What's new in version 1.2.3?
891 ----------------------------
893 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
894 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
895 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
896 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
900 - updated italian User Guide
902 - updated french localization
905 What's new in version 1.2.2?
906 ----------------------------
908 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
909 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
914 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
915 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
916 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
918 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
919 when dragging the mouse)
921 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
922 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
923 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
926 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
927 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
928 who are not aware that it is needed
930 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
931 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
933 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
934 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
936 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
938 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
940 - update sciword bindings
942 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
943 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
945 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
949 What's new in version 1.2.1?
950 ----------------------------
952 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
953 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
954 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
955 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
960 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
961 when this gets released)
963 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
964 the performance problems
966 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
968 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
969 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
970 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
972 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
975 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
976 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
977 help entering of ERT insets)
979 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
981 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
983 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
985 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
986 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
989 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
991 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
994 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
995 line and have this file created for you
997 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
998 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1001 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1002 ----------------------------
1004 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1005 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1006 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1007 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1008 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1011 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1012 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1015 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1016 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1019 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1020 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1021 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1023 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1026 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1027 appear in the output.
1029 - New minipage inset
1031 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1032 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1036 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1038 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1039 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1040 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1043 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1047 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1048 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1049 process, among which:
1051 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1053 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1054 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1055 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1057 - support for many amsmath features
1058 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1059 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1060 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1061 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1064 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1066 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1068 - Improvements to the parser
1070 - Improvements to math text mode
1072 - (Better) support for nested macros
1074 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1076 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1078 - GUI support provided for many more features
1081 Other changes include:
1083 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1086 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1087 improved in the process
1089 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1090 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1091 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1093 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1096 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1097 "shelfful", or many german words
1099 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1100 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1101 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1102 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1104 - Updated documentation
1106 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1109 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1111 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1113 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1115 - Babel can be disabled
1117 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1119 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1120 ------------------------------------
1122 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1126 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1128 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1129 appears to be more suitable.
1131 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1132 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1134 - add support for dvipdfm
1136 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1137 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1139 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1142 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1144 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1147 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1149 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1152 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1153 ------------------------------------
1155 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1159 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1162 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1163 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1165 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1168 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1169 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1171 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1172 Theoretical Computer Science
1174 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1176 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1177 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1179 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1180 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1181 with the older version
1184 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1185 ------------------------------------
1187 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1191 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1193 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1194 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1195 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1197 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1198 documentation update.
1200 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1203 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1204 ------------------------------------
1206 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1210 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1211 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1213 - better support for ukrainian language
1215 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1216 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1218 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1219 line-delete-forward.
1221 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1223 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1226 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1227 --------------------------------
1229 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1230 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1231 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1233 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1234 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1235 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1236 from the older development version:
1238 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1239 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1240 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1241 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1242 have been overhauled.
1244 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1247 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1248 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1250 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1252 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1253 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1254 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1256 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1258 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1259 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1260 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1261 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1262 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1263 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1264 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1266 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1267 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1268 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1271 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1272 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1273 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1274 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1275 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1276 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1278 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1279 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1280 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1281 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1282 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1284 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1286 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1288 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1289 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1290 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1291 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1292 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1293 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1295 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1297 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1300 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1301 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1303 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1304 mentioned here for your information
1306 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1307 (this can be changed in preferences).
1309 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1314 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1315 --------------------------------
1317 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1318 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1319 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1321 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1322 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1324 User-visible changes:
1326 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1328 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1330 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1332 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1334 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1335 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1337 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1338 command-line/window:
1339 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1341 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1342 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1344 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1346 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1348 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1350 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1351 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1352 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1353 (And you probably had the error always.)
1355 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1357 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1358 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1360 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1362 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1363 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1364 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1365 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1367 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1369 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1370 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1372 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1373 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1375 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1376 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1377 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1378 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1381 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1382 --------------------------------
1384 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1385 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1386 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1389 In the user-visible department, we find:
1391 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1392 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1393 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1394 the GUI pops up during the process...
1396 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1398 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1399 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1401 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1402 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1403 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1404 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1406 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1409 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1410 --------------------------------
1412 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1413 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1415 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1416 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1417 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1419 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1420 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1423 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1426 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1428 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1429 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1430 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1431 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1432 for the sake of correctness.
1434 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1435 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1437 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1438 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1440 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1442 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1444 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1446 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1447 --------------------------------
1449 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1451 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1452 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1453 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1455 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1457 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1459 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1461 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1462 has also been fixed.
1464 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1465 --------------------------------
1467 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1468 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1469 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1470 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1471 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1472 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1474 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1476 - New export to HTML feature
1478 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1480 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1481 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1482 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1484 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1485 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1486 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1488 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1489 --------------------------------------------------
1491 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1492 new features has been included:
1498 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1500 - Several language files updated.
1502 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1504 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1505 --------------------------------------------------
1507 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1509 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1512 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1514 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1516 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1517 --------------------------------------------------
1519 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1520 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1522 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1524 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1525 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1527 - Better multipart document support.
1529 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1532 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1535 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1536 --------------------------------------------------
1538 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1539 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1541 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1543 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1545 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1547 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1549 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1553 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1554 ----------------------------------------------------
1556 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1557 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1559 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1560 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1561 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1562 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1563 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1565 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1566 footnotes, and generally better output.
1568 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1569 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1570 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1571 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1572 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1574 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1575 and error message translations) for several languages.
1577 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1578 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1579 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1581 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1583 - Improved table support.
1585 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1587 - easier handling of index entries.
1589 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1590 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1591 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1592 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1595 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1596 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as