1 What's new in version 2.3.3?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
6 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
7 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
8 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
9 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
10 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
11 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
14 What's new in version 2.3.2?
15 ----------------------------
17 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
19 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
20 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
21 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
22 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
23 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
24 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental. Please see below
28 What's new in version 2.3.1?
29 ----------------------------
31 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
33 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
34 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
35 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
37 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
38 python 2.x and python 3.x.
40 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
41 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
42 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
43 using the default keybindings).
46 What's new in version 2.3.0?
47 ----------------------------
49 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
50 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
53 * Multiple bibliographies
55 * Quotation marks enhancements
56 * Updates to reference handling
57 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
59 * New supported languages
60 * New supported LaTeX commands
61 * New template for Inkscape drawings
62 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
64 * Localization of nomenclature
65 * New translations of the LyX user interface
66 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
67 * Automatic detection of file changes
68 * Citation & reference dialogs
69 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
70 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
71 * Outliner and navigation menu
72 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
74 * Code preview & highlighting
77 What's new in version 2.2.3?
78 ----------------------------
80 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
82 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
83 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
84 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
85 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
88 What's new in version 2.2.2?
89 ----------------------------
91 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
93 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
94 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
95 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
97 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
98 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
100 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
101 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
102 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
103 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
107 What's new in version 2.2.1?
108 ----------------------------
110 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
112 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
113 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
114 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
115 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
116 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
119 What's new in version 2.2.0?
120 ----------------------------
122 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
123 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
125 * HiDPI display support
127 * New text display algorithm
128 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
129 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
130 * Improved text color support
131 * Improved box dialog
132 * Improved table context menu
133 * Reworked instant preview
134 * Enhanced source panel
135 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
136 * Enhanced language support
137 * New supported languages
138 * New supported LaTeX commands
139 * Layout enhancements
140 * Module enhancements
141 * New preferences settings
145 What's new in version 2.1.5?
146 ----------------------------
148 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
149 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
151 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
152 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
153 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
156 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
157 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
158 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
159 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
162 What's new in version 2.1.4?
163 ----------------------------
165 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
167 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
168 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
169 to upgrade to this version.
172 What's new in version 2.1.3?
173 ----------------------------
175 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
177 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
178 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
179 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
182 What's new in version 2.1.2?
183 ----------------------------
185 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
187 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
188 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
189 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
190 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
191 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
192 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
195 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
196 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
197 of older beamer documents easier.
200 What's new in version 2.1.1?
201 ----------------------------
203 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
204 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
205 release announcement for the details.
207 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
208 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
209 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
210 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
211 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
212 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
214 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
215 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
216 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
218 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
219 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
220 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
221 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
224 What's new in version 2.1.0?
225 ----------------------------
227 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
228 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
230 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
231 * New supported languages
232 * Tex Fonts Additions
233 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
234 * Document class categories
235 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
236 * New supported LaTeX commands
237 * New export command-line option
239 * Layout enhancements
241 * Equation Editor "mode"
244 What's new in version 2.0.8?
245 ----------------------------
247 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
248 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
249 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
251 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
252 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
253 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
254 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
255 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
256 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
259 What's new in version 2.0.7?
260 ----------------------------
262 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
263 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
264 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
265 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
268 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
269 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
272 What's new in version 2.0.6?
273 ----------------------------
275 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
276 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
277 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
280 What's new in version 2.0.5?
281 ----------------------------
283 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
284 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
285 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
286 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
289 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
290 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
291 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
292 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
293 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
294 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
295 - Menu functions are unchanged.
298 What's new in version 2.0.4?
299 ----------------------------
301 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
302 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
303 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
304 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
305 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
306 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
309 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
310 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
311 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
312 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
313 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
315 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
316 will continue for 2.0.5.
319 What's new in version 2.0.3?
320 ----------------------------
322 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
323 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
325 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
326 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
327 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
328 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
329 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
331 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
332 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
335 What's new in version 2.0.2?
336 ----------------------------
338 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
339 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
340 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
342 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
343 below for the details.
345 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
348 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
349 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
350 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
351 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
352 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
355 What's new in version 2.0.1?
356 ----------------------------
358 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
359 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
360 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
361 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
362 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
363 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
367 What's new in version 2.0.0?
368 ----------------------------
370 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
371 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
373 * Advanced Search Facility
374 * Spell-checking on the Fly
375 * Compare Documents Feature
377 * Multilingual Thesaurus
379 * Multiple Indices Support
380 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
381 * Enhanced Instant Preview
382 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
383 * Enhanced Version Control Features
384 * Typesetting in background
387 What's new in version 1.6.10?
388 ------------------------------
389 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
390 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
391 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
392 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
393 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
397 What's new in version 1.6.9?
398 -----------------------------
400 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
401 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
402 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
403 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
406 What's new in version 1.6.8?
407 -----------------------------
409 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
410 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
411 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
412 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
415 What's new in version 1.6.7?
416 -----------------------------
418 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
419 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
420 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
421 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
425 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
426 ------------------------------
428 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
429 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
430 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
431 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
434 What's new in version 1.6.6?
435 -----------------------------
437 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
438 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
439 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
440 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
441 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
442 spelling in parallel).
445 What's new in version 1.6.5?
446 -----------------------------
448 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
449 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
450 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
451 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
452 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
455 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
456 -------------------------------
458 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
459 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
462 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
463 -------------------------------
465 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
466 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
467 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
470 What's new in version 1.6.4?
471 -------------------------------
473 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
474 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
477 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
478 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
479 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
480 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
481 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
482 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
483 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
484 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
487 What's new in version 1.6.3?
488 -------------------------------
490 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
491 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
493 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
494 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
495 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
496 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
498 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
499 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
500 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
501 compiled against Qt 4.5.
504 What's new in version 1.6.2?
505 -------------------------------
507 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
508 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
509 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
510 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
511 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
512 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
513 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
516 What's new in version 1.6.1?
517 -------------------------------
519 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
520 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
521 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
525 What's new in version 1.6.0?
526 -------------------------------
528 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
529 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
531 * Multiple Work Areas
533 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
535 * Layout combobox changes
536 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
537 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
539 * New implementation of math macros
544 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
545 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
546 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
551 * Graphics parameters groups
552 * LyX functions manual
553 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
556 What's new in version 1.5.7?
557 ----------------------------
559 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
560 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
561 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
562 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
563 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
564 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
567 What's new in version 1.5.6?
568 ----------------------------
570 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
571 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
572 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
573 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
576 What's new in version 1.5.5?
577 ----------------------------
579 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
580 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
581 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
582 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
583 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
586 What's new in version 1.5.4?
587 ----------------------------
589 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
590 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
591 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
592 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
595 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
596 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
597 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
598 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
599 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
602 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
603 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
604 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
605 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
606 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
607 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
608 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
609 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
612 What's new in version 1.5.3?
613 ----------------------------
615 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
616 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
617 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
618 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
619 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
620 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
621 version also provides some new features.
624 What's new in version 1.5.2?
625 ----------------------------
627 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
628 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
629 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
630 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
633 What's new in version 1.5.1?
634 ----------------------------
636 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
637 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
638 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
639 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
640 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
642 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
645 What's new in version 1.5.0?
646 ----------------------------
648 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
649 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
650 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
654 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
655 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
656 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
657 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
658 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
659 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
660 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
661 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
662 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
663 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
666 * Integrated CJK support
668 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
669 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
670 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
672 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
673 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
674 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
675 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
679 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
680 have full user interface support.
682 * Multiple views of the same buffer
684 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
685 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
686 parts of it synchronously.
688 * Outliner and embedded TOC
690 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
691 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
692 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
693 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
697 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
698 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
699 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
700 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
701 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
702 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
706 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
707 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
710 * New Font Selection Interface
712 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
713 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
714 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
718 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
719 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
720 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
724 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
725 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
726 glossaries and fancy notations.
730 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
732 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
734 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
735 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
736 to the math toolbars.
737 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
738 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
742 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
743 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
744 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
745 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
746 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
747 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
748 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
749 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
752 * Change tracking enhancements
754 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
755 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
757 * Converter file cache
759 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
760 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
761 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
762 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
763 is enabled by default.
765 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
768 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
770 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
772 * Unified Windows installer
774 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
775 both installers are welcome.
779 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
780 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
781 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
783 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
784 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
786 * LaTeX-package support
788 LyX provides the following new document classes:
789 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
790 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
791 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
792 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
793 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
795 * Minor user interface improvements
797 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
799 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
800 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
801 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
803 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
805 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
806 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
807 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
808 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
809 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
810 even after the selection has been cleared.
812 * Limited support for local class and layout files
814 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
815 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
816 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
817 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
818 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
819 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
820 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
824 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
825 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
826 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
827 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
828 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
829 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
830 series has been to bring this speed back.
834 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
835 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
838 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
839 ------------------------------
841 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
842 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
845 What's new in version 1.4.5?
846 ----------------------------
848 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
849 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
850 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
851 python 2.3.4 or later).
854 What's new in version 1.4.4?
855 ----------------------------
857 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
859 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
860 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
862 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
863 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
865 *) Improved documentation.
867 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
870 What's new in version 1.4.3?
871 ----------------------------
873 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
874 support. Notable new features include:
876 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
877 installation anymore.
879 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
880 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
881 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
882 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
884 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
888 What's new in version 1.4.2?
889 ----------------------------
891 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
893 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
894 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
896 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
898 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
899 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
900 be compressed on disk or not.
902 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
903 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
904 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
907 What's new in version 1.4.1?
908 ----------------------------
910 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
912 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
913 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
915 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
918 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
920 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
922 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
923 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
926 What's new in version 1.4.0?
927 ----------------------------
929 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
930 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
931 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
933 ** Improved user interface
935 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
936 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
937 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
938 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
939 classic UI) is still available, for now.
941 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
942 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
943 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
944 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
945 available: one for tables, and one for math.
947 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
948 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
953 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
954 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
955 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
958 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
960 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
961 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
962 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
963 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
967 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
968 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
969 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
970 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
976 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
977 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
978 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
980 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
981 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
982 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
984 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
986 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
987 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
992 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
993 the Insert>Note menu:
995 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
996 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
998 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
999 well, greyed-out text.
1001 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1003 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1005 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1006 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1007 language of the menus;
1008 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1009 document class specifications.
1013 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1014 count of the document or of the current selection.
1018 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1019 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1021 ** Improved bibliography support
1023 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1024 "before citation" field is supported;
1025 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1026 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1028 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1029 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1030 index processor is invoked).
1032 ** Improved microtypography support
1034 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1036 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1037 between "e." and "g.");
1038 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1039 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1040 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1041 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1042 much space between figure/table and caption.
1046 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1048 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1051 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1052 edit the included figure
1054 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1055 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1059 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1060 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1063 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1064 ----------------------------
1066 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1067 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1070 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1071 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1073 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1074 installer and in the handling of file names.
1076 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1079 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1080 ----------------------------
1082 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1084 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1085 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1086 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1087 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1088 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1089 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1090 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1092 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1093 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1094 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1096 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1097 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1098 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1099 considered as part of words
1103 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1104 ----------------------------
1106 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1107 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1108 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1109 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1110 case where the files are in different directories.
1111 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1113 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1114 ----------------------------
1116 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1118 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1119 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1120 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1121 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1123 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1124 * The interface and documentation localization have
1127 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1128 ----------------------------
1130 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1132 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1133 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1134 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1135 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1136 the user interface and documentation.
1138 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1139 ----------------------------
1141 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1143 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1145 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1146 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1149 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1150 ----------------------------
1152 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1153 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1154 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1155 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1156 improvements) for good measure.
1160 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1161 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1163 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1164 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1166 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1167 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1168 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1169 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1172 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1173 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1174 (documentation has been updated too)
1176 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1177 spanish translation of menus
1179 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1180 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1181 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1183 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1184 ----------------------------
1186 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1187 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1188 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1189 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1190 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1192 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1193 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1194 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1198 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1199 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1200 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1201 functionally equivalent.
1203 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1204 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1205 symbols displayed properly.
1209 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1210 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1211 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1216 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1217 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1218 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1219 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1220 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1221 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1222 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1223 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1224 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1225 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1229 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1230 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1231 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1232 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1233 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1234 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1235 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1236 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1237 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1238 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1239 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1240 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1241 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1242 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1243 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1245 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1246 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1248 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1249 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1250 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1251 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1252 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1254 ** Reading old files
1256 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1257 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1258 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1259 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1261 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1262 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1263 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1264 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1266 ** Miscellaneous changes
1268 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1269 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1270 configure your font server).
1272 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1273 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1276 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1277 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1280 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1281 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1282 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1286 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1287 ----------------------------
1289 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1290 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1291 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1292 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1296 - updated italian User Guide
1298 - updated french localization
1301 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1302 ----------------------------
1304 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1305 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1310 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1311 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1312 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1314 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1315 when dragging the mouse)
1317 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1318 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1319 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1322 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1323 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1324 who are not aware that it is needed
1326 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1327 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1329 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1330 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1332 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1334 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1336 - update sciword bindings
1338 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1339 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1341 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1345 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1346 ----------------------------
1348 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1349 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1350 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1351 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1356 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1357 when this gets released)
1359 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1360 the performance problems
1362 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1364 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1365 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1366 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1368 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1371 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1372 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1373 help entering of ERT insets)
1375 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1377 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1379 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1381 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1382 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1385 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1387 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1390 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1391 line and have this file created for you
1393 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1394 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1397 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1398 ----------------------------
1400 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1401 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1402 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1403 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1404 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1407 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1408 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1411 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1412 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1415 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1416 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1417 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1419 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1422 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1423 appear in the output.
1425 - New minipage inset
1427 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1428 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1432 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1434 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1435 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1436 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1439 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1443 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1444 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1445 process, among which:
1447 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1449 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1450 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1451 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1453 - support for many amsmath features
1454 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1455 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1456 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1457 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1460 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1462 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1464 - Improvements to the parser
1466 - Improvements to math text mode
1468 - (Better) support for nested macros
1470 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1472 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1474 - GUI support provided for many more features
1477 Other changes include:
1479 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1482 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1483 improved in the process
1485 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1486 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1487 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1489 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1492 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1493 "shelfful", or many german words
1495 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1496 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1497 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1498 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1500 - Updated documentation
1502 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1505 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1507 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1509 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1511 - Babel can be disabled
1513 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1515 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1516 ------------------------------------
1518 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1522 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1524 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1525 appears to be more suitable.
1527 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1528 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1530 - add support for dvipdfm
1532 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1533 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1535 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1538 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1540 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1543 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1545 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1548 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1549 ------------------------------------
1551 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1555 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1558 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1559 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1561 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1564 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1565 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1567 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1568 Theoretical Computer Science
1570 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1572 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1573 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1575 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1576 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1577 with the older version
1580 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1581 ------------------------------------
1583 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1587 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1589 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1590 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1591 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1593 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1594 documentation update.
1596 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1599 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1600 ------------------------------------
1602 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1606 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1607 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1609 - better support for ukrainian language
1611 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1612 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1614 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1615 line-delete-forward.
1617 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1619 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1622 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1623 --------------------------------
1625 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1626 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1627 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1629 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1630 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1631 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1632 from the older development version:
1634 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1635 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1636 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1637 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1638 have been overhauled.
1640 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1643 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1644 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1646 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1648 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1649 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1650 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1652 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1654 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1655 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1656 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1657 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1658 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1659 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1660 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1662 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1663 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1664 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1667 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1668 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1669 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1670 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1671 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1672 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1674 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1675 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1676 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1677 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1678 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1680 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1682 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1684 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1685 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1686 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1687 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1688 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1689 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1691 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1693 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1696 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1697 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1699 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1700 mentioned here for your information
1702 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1703 (this can be changed in preferences).
1705 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1710 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1711 --------------------------------
1713 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1714 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1715 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1717 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1718 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1720 User-visible changes:
1722 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1724 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1726 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1728 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1730 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1731 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1733 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1734 command-line/window:
1735 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1737 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1738 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1740 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1742 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1744 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1746 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1747 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1748 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1749 (And you probably had the error always.)
1751 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1753 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1754 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1756 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1758 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1759 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1760 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1761 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1763 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1765 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1766 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1768 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1769 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1771 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1772 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1773 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1774 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1777 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1778 --------------------------------
1780 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1781 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1782 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1785 In the user-visible department, we find:
1787 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1788 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1789 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1790 the GUI pops up during the process...
1792 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1794 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1795 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1797 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1798 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1799 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1800 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1802 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1805 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1806 --------------------------------
1808 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1809 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1811 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1812 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1813 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1815 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1816 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1819 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1822 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1824 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1825 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1826 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1827 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1828 for the sake of correctness.
1830 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1831 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1833 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1834 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1836 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1838 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1840 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1842 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1843 --------------------------------
1845 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1847 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1848 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1849 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1851 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1853 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1855 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1857 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1858 has also been fixed.
1860 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1861 --------------------------------
1863 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1864 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1865 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1866 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1867 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1868 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1870 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1872 - New export to HTML feature
1874 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1876 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1877 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1878 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1880 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1881 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1882 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1884 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1885 --------------------------------------------------
1887 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1888 new features has been included:
1894 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1896 - Several language files updated.
1898 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1900 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1901 --------------------------------------------------
1903 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1905 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1908 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1910 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1912 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1913 --------------------------------------------------
1915 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1916 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1918 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1920 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1921 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1923 - Better multipart document support.
1925 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1928 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1931 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1932 --------------------------------------------------
1934 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1935 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1937 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1939 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1941 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1943 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1945 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1949 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1950 ----------------------------------------------------
1952 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1953 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1955 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1956 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1957 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1958 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1959 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1961 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1962 footnotes, and generally better output.
1964 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1965 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1966 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1967 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1968 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1970 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1971 and error message translations) for several languages.
1973 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1974 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1975 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1977 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1979 - Improved table support.
1981 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1983 - easier handling of index entries.
1985 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1986 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1987 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1988 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1991 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1992 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as