1 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
5 release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
6 the `under the hood' changes to the code have again been very
7 important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
8 a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
9 announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
13 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
14 either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
15 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
16 functionally equivalent.
18 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
19 latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
24 The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
25 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
26 implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
27 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
29 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
30 version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
31 General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
32 many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
33 are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
34 In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
36 In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
37 invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
38 Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
39 highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
40 feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
44 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
45 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
46 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
51 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
52 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
53 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
54 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
55 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
56 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
57 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
58 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
59 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
60 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
64 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
65 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
66 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
67 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
68 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
69 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
70 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
71 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
72 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
73 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
74 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
75 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
76 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
77 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
78 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
80 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
81 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
83 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
84 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
85 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
86 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
87 the inset and press 'backspace'.
91 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
92 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
93 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
94 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
96 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
97 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
98 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
99 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
101 ** Miscellaneous changes
103 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
104 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
105 configure your font server).
107 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
108 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
111 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
112 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
115 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
116 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
117 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
120 What's new in version 1.2.2?
121 ----------------------------
123 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
124 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
129 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
130 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
131 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
133 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
134 when dragging the mouse)
136 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
137 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
138 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
141 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
142 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
143 who are not aware that it is needed
145 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
146 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
148 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
149 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
151 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
153 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
155 - update sciword bindings
157 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
158 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
160 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
164 What's new in version 1.2.1?
165 ----------------------------
167 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
168 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
169 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
170 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
175 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
176 when this gets released)
178 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
179 the performance problems
181 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
183 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
184 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
185 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
187 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
190 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
191 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
192 help entering of ERT insets)
194 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
196 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
198 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
200 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
201 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
204 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
206 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
209 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
210 line and have this file created for you
212 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
213 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
216 What's new in version 1.2.0?
217 ----------------------------
219 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
220 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
221 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
222 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
223 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
226 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
227 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
230 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
231 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
234 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
235 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
236 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
238 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
241 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
242 appear in the output.
246 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
247 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
251 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
253 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
254 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
255 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
258 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
262 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
263 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
264 process, among which:
266 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
268 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
269 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
270 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
272 - support for many amsmath features
273 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
274 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
275 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
276 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
279 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
281 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
283 - Improvements to the parser
285 - Improvements to math text mode
287 - (Better) support for nested macros
289 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
291 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
293 - GUI support provided for many more features
296 Other changes include:
298 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
301 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
302 improved in the process
304 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
305 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
306 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
308 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
311 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
312 "shelfful", or many german words
314 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
315 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
316 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
317 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
319 - Updated documentation
321 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
324 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
326 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
328 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
330 - Babel can be disabled
332 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
334 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
335 ------------------------------------
337 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
341 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
343 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
344 appears to be more suitable.
346 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
347 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
349 - add support for dvipdfm
351 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
352 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
354 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
357 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
359 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
362 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
364 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
367 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
368 ------------------------------------
370 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
374 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
377 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
378 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
380 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
383 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
384 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
386 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
387 Theoretical Computer Science
389 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
391 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
392 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
394 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
395 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
396 with the older version
399 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
400 ------------------------------------
402 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
406 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
408 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
409 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
410 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
412 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
413 documentation update.
415 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
418 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
419 ------------------------------------
421 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
425 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
426 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
428 - better support for ukrainian language
430 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
431 working --with-lyx-suffix.
433 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
436 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
438 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
441 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
442 --------------------------------
444 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
445 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
446 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
448 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
449 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
450 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
451 from the older development version:
453 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
454 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
455 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
456 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
457 have been overhauled.
459 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
462 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
463 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
465 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
467 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
468 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
469 will give you an idea of what is happening.
471 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
473 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
474 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
475 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
476 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
477 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
478 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
479 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
481 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
482 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
483 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
486 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
487 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
488 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
489 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
490 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
491 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
493 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
494 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
495 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
496 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
497 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
499 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
501 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
503 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
504 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
505 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
506 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
507 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
508 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
510 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
512 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
515 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
516 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
518 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
519 mentioned here for your information
521 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
522 (this can be changed in preferences).
524 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
529 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
530 --------------------------------
532 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
533 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
534 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
536 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
537 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
539 User-visible changes:
541 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
543 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
545 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
547 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
549 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
550 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
552 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
554 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
556 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
557 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
559 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
561 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
563 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
565 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
566 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
567 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
568 (And you probably had the error always.)
570 - Better definition for LyXList style.
572 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
573 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
575 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
577 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
578 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
579 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
580 support is of course not supported in older versions.
582 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
584 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
585 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
587 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
588 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
590 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
591 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
592 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
593 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
596 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
597 --------------------------------
599 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
600 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
601 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
604 In the user-visible department, we find:
606 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
607 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
608 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
609 the GUI pops up during the process...
611 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
613 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
614 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
616 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
617 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
618 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
619 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
621 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
624 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
625 --------------------------------
627 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
628 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
630 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
631 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
632 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
634 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
635 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
638 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
641 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
643 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
644 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
645 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
646 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
647 for the sake of correctness.
649 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
650 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
652 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
653 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
655 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
657 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
659 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
661 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
662 --------------------------------
664 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
666 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
667 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
668 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
670 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
672 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
674 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
676 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
679 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
680 --------------------------------
682 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
683 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
684 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
685 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
686 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
687 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
689 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
691 - New export to HTML feature
693 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
695 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
696 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
697 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
699 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
700 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
701 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
703 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
704 --------------------------------------------------
706 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
707 new features has been included:
713 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
715 - Several language files updated.
717 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
719 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
720 --------------------------------------------------
722 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
724 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
727 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
729 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
731 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
732 --------------------------------------------------
734 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
735 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
737 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
739 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
740 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
742 - Better multipart document support.
744 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
747 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
750 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
751 --------------------------------------------------
753 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
754 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
756 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
758 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
760 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
762 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
764 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
768 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
769 ----------------------------------------------------
771 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
772 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
774 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
775 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
776 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
777 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
778 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
780 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
781 footnotes, and generally better output.
783 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
784 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
785 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
786 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
787 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
789 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
790 and error message translations) for several languages.
792 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
793 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
794 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
796 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
798 - Improved table support.
800 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
802 - easier handling of index entries.
804 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
805 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
806 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
807 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
810 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
811 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as