1 What's new in version 2.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
8 * Multiple bibliographies
10 * Quotation marks enhancements
11 * Updates to reference handling
12 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
14 * New supported languages
15 * New supported LaTeX commands
16 * New template for Inkscape drawings
17 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
19 * Localization of nomenclature
20 * New translations of the LyX user interface
21 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
22 * Automatic detection of file changes
23 * Citation & reference dialogs
24 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
25 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
26 * Outliner and navigation menu
27 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
29 * Code preview & highlighting
32 What's new in version 2.2.2?
33 ----------------------------
35 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
37 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
38 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
39 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
41 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
42 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
44 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
45 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
46 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
47 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
51 What's new in version 2.2.1?
52 ----------------------------
54 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
56 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
57 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
58 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
59 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
60 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
63 What's new in version 2.2.0?
64 ----------------------------
66 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
67 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
69 * HiDPI display support
71 * New text display algorithm
72 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
73 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
74 * Improved text color support
76 * Improved table context menu
77 * Reworked instant preview
78 * Enhanced source panel
79 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
80 * Enhanced language support
81 * New supported languages
82 * New supported LaTeX commands
85 * New preferences settings
89 What's new in version 2.1.5?
90 ----------------------------
92 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
93 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
95 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
96 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
97 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
100 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
101 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
102 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
103 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
106 What's new in version 2.1.4?
107 ----------------------------
109 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
111 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
112 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
113 to upgrade to this version.
116 What's new in version 2.1.3?
117 ----------------------------
119 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
121 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
122 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
123 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
126 What's new in version 2.1.2?
127 ----------------------------
129 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
131 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
132 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
133 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
134 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
135 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
136 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
139 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
140 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
141 of older beamer documents easier.
144 What's new in version 2.1.1?
145 ----------------------------
147 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
148 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
149 release announcement for the details.
151 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
152 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
153 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
154 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
155 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
156 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
158 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
159 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
160 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
162 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
163 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
164 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
165 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
168 What's new in version 2.1.0?
169 ----------------------------
171 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
172 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
174 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
175 * New supported languages
176 * Tex Fonts Additions
177 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
178 * Document class categories
179 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
180 * New supported LaTeX commands
181 * New export command-line option
183 * Layout enhancements
185 * Equation Editor "mode"
188 What's new in version 2.0.8?
189 ----------------------------
191 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
192 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
193 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
195 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
196 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
197 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
198 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
199 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
200 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
203 What's new in version 2.0.7?
204 ----------------------------
206 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
207 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
208 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
209 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
212 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
213 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
216 What's new in version 2.0.6?
217 ----------------------------
219 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
220 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
221 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
224 What's new in version 2.0.5?
225 ----------------------------
227 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
228 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
229 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
230 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
233 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
234 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
235 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
236 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
237 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
238 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
239 - Menu functions are unchanged.
242 What's new in version 2.0.4?
243 ----------------------------
245 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
246 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
247 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
248 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
249 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
250 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
253 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
254 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
255 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
256 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
257 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
259 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
260 will continue for 2.0.5.
263 What's new in version 2.0.3?
264 ----------------------------
266 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
267 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
269 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
270 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
271 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
272 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
273 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
275 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
276 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
279 What's new in version 2.0.2?
280 ----------------------------
282 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
283 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
284 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
286 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
287 below for the details.
289 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
292 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
293 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
294 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
295 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
296 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
299 What's new in version 2.0.1?
300 ----------------------------
302 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
303 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
304 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
305 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
306 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
307 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
311 What's new in version 2.0.0?
312 ----------------------------
314 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
315 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
317 * Advanced Search Facility
318 * Spell-checking on the Fly
319 * Compare Documents Feature
321 * Multilingual Thesaurus
323 * Multiple Indices Support
324 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
325 * Enhanced Instant Preview
326 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
327 * Enhanced Version Control Features
328 * Typesetting in background
331 What's new in version 1.6.10?
332 ------------------------------
333 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
334 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
335 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
336 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
337 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
341 What's new in version 1.6.9?
342 -----------------------------
344 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
345 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
346 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
347 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
350 What's new in version 1.6.8?
351 -----------------------------
353 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
354 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
355 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
356 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
359 What's new in version 1.6.7?
360 -----------------------------
362 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
363 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
364 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
365 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
369 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
370 ------------------------------
372 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
373 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
374 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
375 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
378 What's new in version 1.6.6?
379 -----------------------------
381 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
382 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
383 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
384 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
385 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
386 spelling in parallel).
389 What's new in version 1.6.5?
390 -----------------------------
392 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
393 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
394 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
395 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
396 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
399 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
400 -------------------------------
402 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
403 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
406 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
407 -------------------------------
409 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
410 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
411 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
414 What's new in version 1.6.4?
415 -------------------------------
417 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
418 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
421 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
422 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
423 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
424 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
425 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
426 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
427 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
428 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
431 What's new in version 1.6.3?
432 -------------------------------
434 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
435 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
437 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
438 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
439 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
440 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
442 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
443 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
444 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
445 compiled against Qt 4.5.
448 What's new in version 1.6.2?
449 -------------------------------
451 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
452 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
453 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
454 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
455 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
456 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
457 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
460 What's new in version 1.6.1?
461 -------------------------------
463 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
464 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
465 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
469 What's new in version 1.6.0?
470 -------------------------------
472 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
473 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
475 * Multiple Work Areas
477 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
479 * Layout combobox changes
480 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
481 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
483 * New implementation of math macros
488 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
489 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
490 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
495 * Graphics parameters groups
496 * LyX functions manual
497 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
500 What's new in version 1.5.7?
501 ----------------------------
503 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
504 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
505 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
506 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
507 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
508 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
511 What's new in version 1.5.6?
512 ----------------------------
514 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
515 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
516 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
517 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
520 What's new in version 1.5.5?
521 ----------------------------
523 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
524 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
525 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
526 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
527 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
530 What's new in version 1.5.4?
531 ----------------------------
533 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
534 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
535 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
536 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
539 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
540 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
541 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
542 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
543 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
546 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
547 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
548 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
549 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
550 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
551 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
552 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
553 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
556 What's new in version 1.5.3?
557 ----------------------------
559 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
560 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
561 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
562 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
563 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
564 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
565 version also provides some new features.
568 What's new in version 1.5.2?
569 ----------------------------
571 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
572 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
573 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
574 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
577 What's new in version 1.5.1?
578 ----------------------------
580 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
581 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
582 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
583 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
584 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
586 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
589 What's new in version 1.5.0?
590 ----------------------------
592 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
593 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
594 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
598 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
599 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
600 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
601 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
602 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
603 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
604 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
605 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
606 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
607 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
610 * Integrated CJK support
612 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
613 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
614 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
616 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
617 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
618 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
619 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
623 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
624 have full user interface support.
626 * Multiple views of the same buffer
628 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
629 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
630 parts of it synchronously.
632 * Outliner and embedded TOC
634 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
635 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
636 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
637 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
641 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
642 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
643 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
644 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
645 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
646 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
650 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
651 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
654 * New Font Selection Interface
656 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
657 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
658 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
662 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
663 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
664 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
668 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
669 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
670 glossaries and fancy notations.
674 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
676 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
678 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
679 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
680 to the math toolbars.
681 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
682 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
686 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
687 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
688 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
689 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
690 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
691 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
692 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
693 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
696 * Change tracking enhancements
698 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
699 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
701 * Converter file cache
703 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
704 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
705 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
706 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
707 is enabled by default.
709 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
712 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
714 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
716 * Unified Windows installer
718 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
719 both installers are welcome.
723 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
724 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
725 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
727 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
728 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
730 * LaTeX-package support
732 LyX provides the following new document classes:
733 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
734 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
735 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
736 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
737 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
739 * Minor user interface improvements
741 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
743 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
744 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
745 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
747 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
749 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
750 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
751 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
752 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
753 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
754 even after the selection has been cleared.
756 * Limited support for local class and layout files
758 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
759 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
760 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
761 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
762 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
763 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
764 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
768 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
769 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
770 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
771 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
772 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
773 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
774 series has been to bring this speed back.
778 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
779 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
782 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
783 ------------------------------
785 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
786 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
789 What's new in version 1.4.5?
790 ----------------------------
792 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
793 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
794 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
795 python 2.3.4 or later).
798 What's new in version 1.4.4?
799 ----------------------------
801 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
803 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
804 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
806 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
807 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
809 *) Improved documentation.
811 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
814 What's new in version 1.4.3?
815 ----------------------------
817 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
818 support. Notable new features include:
820 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
821 installation anymore.
823 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
824 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
825 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
826 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
828 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
832 What's new in version 1.4.2?
833 ----------------------------
835 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
837 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
838 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
840 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
842 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
843 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
844 be compressed on disk or not.
846 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
847 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
848 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
851 What's new in version 1.4.1?
852 ----------------------------
854 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
856 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
857 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
859 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
862 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
864 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
866 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
867 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
870 What's new in version 1.4.0?
871 ----------------------------
873 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
874 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
875 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
877 ** Improved user interface
879 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
880 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
881 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
882 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
883 classic UI) is still available, for now.
885 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
886 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
887 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
888 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
889 available: one for tables, and one for math.
891 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
892 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
897 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
898 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
899 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
902 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
904 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
905 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
906 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
907 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
911 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
912 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
913 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
914 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
920 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
921 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
922 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
924 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
925 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
926 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
928 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
930 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
931 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
936 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
937 the Insert>Note menu:
939 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
940 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
942 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
943 well, greyed-out text.
945 ** Better language and numbering on screen
947 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
949 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
950 the language of the document, which may be different from the
951 language of the menus;
952 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
953 document class specifications.
957 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
958 count of the document or of the current selection.
962 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
963 of errors popping up at compilation time.
965 ** Improved bibliography support
967 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
968 "before citation" field is supported;
969 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
970 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
972 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
973 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
974 index processor is invoked).
976 ** Improved microtypography support
978 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
980 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
981 between "e." and "g.");
982 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
983 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
984 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
985 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
986 much space between figure/table and caption.
990 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
992 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
995 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
996 edit the included figure
998 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
999 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1003 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1004 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1007 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1008 ----------------------------
1010 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1011 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1014 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1015 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1017 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1018 installer and in the handling of file names.
1020 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1023 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1024 ----------------------------
1026 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1028 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1029 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1030 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1031 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1032 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1033 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1034 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1036 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1037 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1038 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1040 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1041 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1042 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1043 considered as part of words
1047 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1048 ----------------------------
1050 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1051 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1052 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1053 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1054 case where the files are in different directories.
1055 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1057 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1058 ----------------------------
1060 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1062 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1063 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1064 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1065 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1067 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1068 * The interface and documentation localization have
1071 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1072 ----------------------------
1074 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1076 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1077 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1078 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1079 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1080 the user interface and documentation.
1082 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1083 ----------------------------
1085 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1087 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1089 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1090 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1093 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1094 ----------------------------
1096 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1097 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1098 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1099 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1100 improvements) for good measure.
1104 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1105 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1107 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1108 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1110 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1111 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1112 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1113 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1116 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1117 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1118 (documentation has been updated too)
1120 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1121 spanish translation of menus
1123 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1124 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1125 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1127 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1128 ----------------------------
1130 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1131 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1132 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1133 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1134 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1136 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1137 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1138 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1142 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1143 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1144 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1145 functionally equivalent.
1147 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1148 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1149 symbols displayed properly.
1153 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1154 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1155 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1160 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1161 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1162 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1163 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1164 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1165 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1166 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1167 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1168 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1169 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1173 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1174 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1175 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1176 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1177 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1178 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1179 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1180 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1181 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1182 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1183 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1184 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1185 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1186 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1187 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1189 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1190 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1192 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1193 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1194 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1195 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1196 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1198 ** Reading old files
1200 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1201 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1202 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1203 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1205 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1206 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1207 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1208 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1210 ** Miscellaneous changes
1212 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1213 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1214 configure your font server).
1216 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1217 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1220 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1221 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1224 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1225 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1226 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1230 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1231 ----------------------------
1233 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1234 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1235 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1236 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1240 - updated italian User Guide
1242 - updated french localization
1245 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1246 ----------------------------
1248 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1249 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1254 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1255 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1256 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1258 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1259 when dragging the mouse)
1261 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1262 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1263 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1266 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1267 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1268 who are not aware that it is needed
1270 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1271 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1273 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1274 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1276 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1278 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1280 - update sciword bindings
1282 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1283 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1285 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1289 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1290 ----------------------------
1292 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1293 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1294 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1295 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1300 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1301 when this gets released)
1303 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1304 the performance problems
1306 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1308 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1309 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1310 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1312 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1315 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1316 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1317 help entering of ERT insets)
1319 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1321 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1323 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1325 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1326 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1329 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1331 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1334 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1335 line and have this file created for you
1337 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1338 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1341 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1342 ----------------------------
1344 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1345 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1346 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1347 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1348 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1351 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1352 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1355 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1356 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1359 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1360 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1361 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1363 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1366 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1367 appear in the output.
1369 - New minipage inset
1371 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1372 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1376 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1378 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1379 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1380 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1383 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1387 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1388 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1389 process, among which:
1391 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1393 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1394 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1395 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1397 - support for many amsmath features
1398 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1399 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1400 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1401 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1404 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1406 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1408 - Improvements to the parser
1410 - Improvements to math text mode
1412 - (Better) support for nested macros
1414 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1416 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1418 - GUI support provided for many more features
1421 Other changes include:
1423 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1426 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1427 improved in the process
1429 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1430 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1431 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1433 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1436 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1437 "shelfful", or many german words
1439 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1440 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1441 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1442 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1444 - Updated documentation
1446 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1449 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1451 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1453 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1455 - Babel can be disabled
1457 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1459 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1460 ------------------------------------
1462 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1466 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1468 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1469 appears to be more suitable.
1471 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1472 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1474 - add support for dvipdfm
1476 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1477 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1479 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1482 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1484 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1487 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1489 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1492 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1493 ------------------------------------
1495 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1499 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1502 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1503 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1505 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1508 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1509 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1511 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1512 Theoretical Computer Science
1514 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1516 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1517 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1519 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1520 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1521 with the older version
1524 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1525 ------------------------------------
1527 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1531 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1533 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1534 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1535 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1537 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1538 documentation update.
1540 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1543 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1544 ------------------------------------
1546 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1550 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1551 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1553 - better support for ukrainian language
1555 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1556 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1558 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1559 line-delete-forward.
1561 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1563 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1566 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1567 --------------------------------
1569 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1570 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1571 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1573 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1574 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1575 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1576 from the older development version:
1578 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1579 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1580 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1581 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1582 have been overhauled.
1584 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1587 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1588 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1590 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1592 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1593 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1594 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1596 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1598 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1599 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1600 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1601 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1602 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1603 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1604 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1606 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1607 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1608 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1611 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1612 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1613 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1614 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1615 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1616 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1618 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1619 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1620 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1621 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1622 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1624 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1626 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1628 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1629 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1630 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1631 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1632 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1633 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1635 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1637 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1640 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1641 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1643 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1644 mentioned here for your information
1646 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1647 (this can be changed in preferences).
1649 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1654 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1655 --------------------------------
1657 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1658 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1659 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1661 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1662 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1664 User-visible changes:
1666 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1668 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1670 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1672 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1674 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1675 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1677 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1678 command-line/window:
1679 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1681 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1682 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1684 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1686 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1688 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1690 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1691 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1692 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1693 (And you probably had the error always.)
1695 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1697 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1698 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1700 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1702 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1703 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1704 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1705 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1707 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1709 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1710 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1712 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1713 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1715 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1716 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1717 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1718 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1721 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1722 --------------------------------
1724 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1725 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1726 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1729 In the user-visible department, we find:
1731 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1732 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1733 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1734 the GUI pops up during the process...
1736 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1738 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1739 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1741 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1742 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1743 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1744 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1746 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1749 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1750 --------------------------------
1752 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1753 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1755 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1756 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1757 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1759 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1760 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1763 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1766 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1768 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1769 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1770 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1771 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1772 for the sake of correctness.
1774 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1775 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1777 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1778 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1780 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1782 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1784 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1786 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1787 --------------------------------
1789 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1791 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1792 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1793 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1795 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1797 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1799 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1801 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1802 has also been fixed.
1804 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1805 --------------------------------
1807 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1808 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1809 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1810 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1811 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1812 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1814 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1816 - New export to HTML feature
1818 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1820 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1821 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1822 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1824 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1825 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1826 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1828 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1829 --------------------------------------------------
1831 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1832 new features has been included:
1838 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1840 - Several language files updated.
1842 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1844 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1845 --------------------------------------------------
1847 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1849 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1852 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1854 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1856 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1857 --------------------------------------------------
1859 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1860 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1862 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1864 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1865 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1867 - Better multipart document support.
1869 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1872 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1875 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1876 --------------------------------------------------
1878 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1879 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1881 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1883 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1885 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1887 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1889 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1893 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1894 ----------------------------------------------------
1896 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1897 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1899 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1900 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1901 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1902 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1903 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1905 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1906 footnotes, and generally better output.
1908 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1909 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1910 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1911 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1912 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1914 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1915 and error message translations) for several languages.
1917 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1918 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1919 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1921 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1923 - Improved table support.
1925 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1927 - easier handling of index entries.
1929 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1930 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1931 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1932 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1935 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1936 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as