1 What's new in version 1.6.0beta1?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
8 What's new in version 1.5.5?
9 ----------------------------
14 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
16 - New Spanish translation of the math manual.
18 - New French translation of the documentation file "Formula-numbering.lyx".
20 - Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, and
21 Romanian translation of the user interface.
23 - Updated German User's Guide and Extended manual.
25 - Updated French User's Guide.
27 - Updated Italian Intro manual.
32 - Add support for the bm package.
34 - New layout files "article (beamer)" and "article (koma + beamer)" that
35 support beamer's article mode.
37 - Allow using the \binom command without the amsmath package.
39 - Add support for \brace and \brack commands in mathed.
42 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
44 - New import option for comma-separated-value files.
46 - Add support for the HTML-to-LaTeX converters gnuhtml2latex and
47 htmltolatex (bug 4615).
49 - The commands \makeatletter and \makeatother are now only added to the
50 preamble when actually needed.
52 - The command \textcolor is now converted when importing LaTeX files
55 - Global line spacing settings are now imported when importing LaTeX
58 - The command \lyxline is now converted when importing LaTeX files
64 - A metafile (EMF/WMF) to EPS conversion tool is included.
65 This tool uses a virtual printer called "Metafile to EPS Converter".
67 - Full support for installation on a per-user basis, including limited
70 - Required files of ImageMagick and Ghostscript will be installed in the
76 - New configure option --enable-build-type allows to set all
77 compilation options for release, prerelease or development builds.
78 Please see the INSTALL file for more details.
84 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
86 - Fix LaTeX import of aligned consecutive paragraphs (bug 4806).
88 - Fix font size handling when importing LaTeX files (bug 4803 and
91 - After an inset, don't always revert to the language's default encoding
92 for latex output, but honor that specified in the document settings
95 - Close font macros (such as \emph) before comments, greyedout, framed
96 and shaded notes, thus fixing a problem where documents couldn't be
99 - Fix LaTeX error "unknown color 'ignore'" when setting text style
100 attributes in mathed (bug 4091).
102 - Assure amsthm is loaded if a theorem is defined with \theoremstyle.
104 - Fix LaTeX errors triggered by switching from ams article to ams plain
107 - Fix drawing of top and bottom rules in formal tables (bug 4554).
109 - Fix reversion of OHM and ANGSTROM characters to LyX < 1.5.0 (rest of
112 - Check for the LaTeX packages "nicefrac" and "units" that are used by
115 - Check for PDF->PS, PDF->EPS and PS->EPS converters and use them (bug
118 - Stop warning messages when a local layout file is opened. Fix bugs
119 caused by incorrect reloading of local layout files.
121 - Use verbose htlatex command instead of oolatex, if available, since the
122 latter caused problems on some systems (bug 4604).
124 - Use package amsbsy for bold math symbols obtained through the \boldsymbol
125 macro, such that bold super and subscripts have the correct size even
126 when not using the complete amsmath package.
128 - Fix loading of lyx documents generated with csv2lyx (bug 4639).
130 - Move \label{} outside of listings option caption={} because the listings
131 package prefers a separate label={} option.
133 - Set the correct encoding when an ASCII encoded LaTeX file is imported
136 - Parse the command \makebox correctly when importing LaTeX files
139 - Import global paragraph settings correctly when importing LaTeX files
142 - Use style guide-conforming headings in the APA layout (bug 4827).
147 - Fix a crash on startup with Qt 4.4 (bug 4568).
149 - Fix a crash that occured on some OSes when the character '{' was
150 inserted in the advanced input of the listings dialog (bug 4780).
152 - Fix an assertion with compressed image files that do not have a
155 - Fix an assertion with incorrect argument for '-sysdir' command-line
158 - Correctly apply font changes when several math matrix cells are selected
161 - Allow deleting a label in a formula as well as the numbering with the
162 delete key (bug 2556).
164 - Allow to enter starred math commands such as \tag* (bug 4584).
166 - Load amsmath when \tag or \tag* is used (bug 4586).
168 - Fix parameter input of the math commands \makebox and \framebox (bug
171 - When cutting a selection do not leave a dangling paragraph (bug 3995).
173 - Improve the behaviour when inserting a collapsable inset over a multi-
176 - Fix the automatic uncollapsing of outliner during updates (bug 3740).
178 - Correctly handle quotation marks in command preferences (bug 2016).
180 - Remove the menu entries to swap rows/columns as this feature is not
183 - Fix wrong focusing of buttons in search dialog (bug 4194).
185 - Disallow some Note variants in places where they would result in LaTeX
186 errors (part of bug 4180).
188 - Use *.* to select all files in the file selection dialog on Windows.
189 Using shortcuts for navigation is now possible.
191 - Fix \Vert symbol in the math panel (part of bug 4720).
193 - correct numbering inside multiline environments (bug 518).
195 - Fix typo in the script TeXFiles.py that scans for TeX files.
197 - Remove the menu entry Insert -> Math -> Toggle math panels, since
198 it actually does not insert anything and its functionality is covered
199 by menu View - > Toolbars -> Math Panels (bug 4765).
204 - Fix LaTeX errors in the Spanish Tutorial, UserGuide, and Intro manual.
207 - correct shortcuts for math fonts in section 11.1
208 - fix the description of the command \tag in section 19.4
210 - Man page: document -geometry option, update Copyright date (bug 4740).
212 - The tex2lyx man page was completely outdated and referred to reLyX in many
213 places (bug 2770). It has been cleaned up, but it is still outdated in
217 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
219 - fix the 'make check' target in src/support; one of the checks still
222 - fix the problems with compilation on gcc 4.3.0 with disabled pch headers.
224 - fix some compilation warnings.
227 What's new in version 1.5.4?
228 ----------------------------
233 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
235 - New manual "LyX's detailed math manual" available in English, French,
236 and German. It includes the content of the example file "mathed.lyx",
237 which is no more shipped separately.
239 - New section "Floats Side by Side" in the EmbeddedObjects manual.
241 - New Spanish translation of the FAQ manual and the mathed example file.
243 - New Japanese splash LyX file.
245 - Updated French and Spanish Introduction manual.
247 - Updated German, French, and Spanish Tutorial manual.
249 - Updated German User's Guide manual.
251 - New Russian translation of the user interface.
253 - Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
254 and Spanish translations of the user interface.
256 - New example files that demonstrate how to create serial letters with
257 the KOMA letter class.
262 - LyX gives more instructive information if a character cannot be encoded
263 properly. Most notably, the offending character is highlighted both in
264 the work area and in the "View Source" pane (bug 3511).
266 - Initial support for shift + right-mouse-click selection (bug 2304).
268 - The on-screen appearance of spaces has been improved.
270 - New shortcut "C-M-n" to create numbered formulas.
272 - Character counting added to "Count Words" function (bug 2819).
274 - The BibTeX dialog now has buttons to move databases up or down
277 - New toolbar button to create boxes.
279 - Keyboard shortcuts for TOC window buttons were introduced. For outlining
280 you can use "M-p Left/Right/Up/Down" keys. Note that depth-in/decrement
281 LFUNs are still reachable via "M-S-Left/Right" shortcuts (bug 4456).
283 - Improve cursor movement around lines with ending line-breaks.
286 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
288 - Use package wrapfig instead of floatflt for wrap figure floats. Note
289 that this might slightly change the output (cf. the file RELEASE-NOTES).
291 - Support to paste text containing ligatures to LyX.
294 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
296 - The Windows version is compiled with MSVC 2008.
297 It is no longer necessary to install the Windows SDK and other patches,
298 these things are now also included in the Express edition.
300 - Viewers wrapper xdg-open was removed due to the problems on environments
301 without desktop managers. Waiting for upstream fixes.
307 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
309 - Fix LaTeX output of documents with both CJK and non-CJK languages.
310 LyX is basically ready for multilingual CJK now (bug 4337).
312 - Fix internal conversion from ucs4 to cp-1255 (LyX didn't recognize
313 the Hebrew character tav [0x5EA] as a valid character in cp-1255)
316 - Fix import of LaTeX files that use the inputenc option "utf8x" (part
319 - Rotated floats are now correctly converted to ERT when exporting to LyX
322 - Fix the LaTeX output of boxes (bug 2492).
324 - Assure that the package "pdfcolmk" is loaded after the package color.
326 - Consider graphic drivers when loading the package "xcolor".
328 - Fix LaTeX code for line spacing when using the memoir class.
330 - Perform additional latex run if package clefval is used.
332 - The "dvi viewer paper options" switch now supports all known
333 paper sizes (bug 4432).
335 - "letter" is no more hardcoded as default dvips paper size
341 - Fix crashes after LyX tried to access files on non-existing or unmounted
342 drives (bugs 4052, 4440, 4534).
344 - Fix a crash when changing the document encoding while View->Source
347 - Fix an assertion when inserting a non-CJK character in a CJK paragraph
350 - Fix a crash when opening a document with relative path (bug 4517).
352 - Fix a crash after converting a formula to eqnarray while a selection
353 was active (bug 4452).
355 - Fix an assertion when inserting a box in a list while at least one
356 paragraph of that list was selected (bug 4502).
358 - Fix a crash when opening a file that resides in a hidden directory
361 - Fix a crash when deleting outlined insets while the outline panel
364 - Fix a crash following the input of an invalid paragraph separation
365 value in the document settings dialog (bug 4556).
367 - Fix a crash when inserting a math formula into a character style
368 inset. In order to fix this, the status bar information that was
369 displayed when hovering over a char style had to be disabled for
370 the time being (bug 4559).
372 - Fix a crash when pressing "page up" while the cursor is in an empty
373 paragraph (bug 4570).
375 - Do not exit after catching an iconv exception (bug 4385, part 2).
377 - Fix update/drawing of character style insets.
379 - Keep unapplied content of the document settings dialog after
380 clicking in the main window (bug 4302).
382 - Select the correct list in the outliner when right-clicking on the
383 TOC- or a "List-of-"inset (bug 4260).
385 - Fix access to network drives on Windows.
387 - "Accept compound words" in Preferences->Spellchecker now also works
388 with aspell (library) (bug 4408).
390 - Overwrite selected text when inserting from the math panel (bug 4055,
393 - Fix copying of insets to external clipboard and display of insets
394 in the navigaton menu (bug 4472).
396 - Fix pasting of multiple tabular cells on Mac and Windows (bug 4436).
398 - Fix the function "mark-on" (bug 2913).
400 - Fix rows alignment in the gather environment (part of bug 1497).
402 - Add missing pdflatex format to Export->Custom.
404 - Add a check box to the formula numbering menu entries and disable
407 - Avoid multiple warning messages from menu system at start-up.
409 - Avoid spurious warning messages about translation of "Plain text" at
412 - Add unicode support for missing space modifier letters.
414 - Add unicode support for many IPA characters.
416 - The case-changing functions do not select text anymore.
418 - Set correct width for labels in document class "letter (KOMA-Script
421 - Fix section counter problem in Portuguese localization (bug 4563).
423 - Load the amsmath package when \implies is used (bug 4561).
428 - Document in the User's Guide how to dissolve insets (bug 3687).
430 - Fix the bibliography of the French User's Guide.
432 - Fix a document preamble font entry that prevented the User's Guide
433 from beeing exported to PDF in some cases.
435 - Fix preamble error in the template file "koma-letter2.lyx".
438 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
440 - Small cleanup to the INSTALL file.
442 - New script postats.py used to generate translation statistics for the
445 - Dutch dictionary now downloads.
447 - Fix compilation with gcc 4.3 (soon to be released).
450 What's new in version 1.5.3?
451 ----------------------------
456 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
458 - Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
459 Norwegian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user
462 - New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx".
464 - New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual.
466 - Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide.
473 - The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has
474 seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing
475 within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon
476 as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of
477 Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in
478 performance thanks to this change.
480 - The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance
481 can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease
482 on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the
483 cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on
484 (Mac and Windows only).
486 - The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either
487 keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445).
489 - Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a
490 consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs.
492 - The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils
493 and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate
494 to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78).
496 - It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them
497 typeset without switching to the proper language.
499 - Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263).
501 - The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished:
502 they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is
503 not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by
504 "View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse
505 button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset
506 is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it.
508 - Inset-dissolve now works in mathed.
510 - Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section
514 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
516 - tex2lyx now imports the following LaTeX commands and environments:
518 - environments "framed" and "shaded" from package framed.sty (i.e. framed
519 and shaded notes in LyX)
520 - \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage, and \inputencoding (bug 27).
521 - all font settings that are natively supported by LyX.
522 - all quotation marks (bug 2703).
524 - xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers).
530 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
532 - Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line
535 - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that
536 contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333).
538 - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.1.6) that used
539 the "default" language.
541 - Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an
542 exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385).
544 - Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but
545 not using also Theorem (bug 4282).
547 - Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained
550 - If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the
553 - Use package "float" when the default placement for floats is set to
556 - Fix import of bounding box arguments "natheight", "natwidth", "bbllx",
557 "bblly", "bburx" and "bbury" (bug 4418).
562 - Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301).
564 - Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable.
566 - Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318).
568 - Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its
569 content is selected (bug 4323).
571 - Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334).
573 - Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs
576 - Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330).
578 - Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335).
580 - Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the
581 appendix and it is empty (bug 4352).
583 - Fix a crash when editing in an inset that contains an horizontal spring
586 - Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line
587 tabular cell (bug 4368).
589 - Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via
590 Insert->File->Plain Text...
592 - Fix a crash when using the regex search of the citation dialog (bug 4421).
594 - Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in
595 the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268).
597 - Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and
598 in the output (bug 3172).
600 - Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337).
602 - Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files
605 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last
606 of several misspelled words (bug 3586).
608 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second
611 - If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it
612 was not aligned correctly. This is fixed.
614 - Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147).
616 - Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371).
618 - Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text...
620 - Fix middle-mouse paste from other apps into LyX (bug 4394).
622 - Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326).
624 - Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330).
626 - Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308).
628 - Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter).
630 - Fix a bug when adding a math formula column.
632 - Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829).
634 - Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only).
636 - Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user
639 - Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog
642 - Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090).
644 - Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999).
646 - Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified
649 - Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359).
651 - Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters.
653 - Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344).
655 - Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu
658 - Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog.
660 - Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset.
662 - Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view.
664 - Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345).
666 - Fix on-screen numbering of mwrep and mwbk classes (bug 4419).
671 - Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations).
673 - Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation
674 "Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion
675 of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0.
677 - Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French
678 version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the
679 EmbeddedObjects documentation.
681 - Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial
684 - Document that the list of recently edited files is lost when
685 upgrading from LyX 1.4.x.
687 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
689 - Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons.
691 - Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are
692 taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only).
694 - Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by
697 - Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1.
700 What's new in version 1.5.2?
701 ----------------------------
706 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
708 - The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
709 date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
710 For a detailed changelog, see
711 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status
713 - The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.
715 - The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
716 * longtable alignment.
717 * scaled and rotated material.
719 - Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
720 In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
721 all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
722 "Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too.
724 - New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
727 - Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian,
728 Japanese, Portuguese and Romanian translations of the user interface.
732 - Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
733 enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.
735 - Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).
737 - Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).
739 - Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
742 - Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656).
744 - Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.
746 - The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or
747 citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug
750 - The screen label of index insets now displays their content.
752 - Floats comes now with fixed width on screen (bug 4002).
754 - A "Title (Plain Frame)" style has been added to the beamer layout.
755 This allows for setting a title frame without head-/footlines and
756 navigation bars (bug 3133).
758 - The AMS document classes have undergone a major rewrite. Several
759 bugs were fixed and some new styles were added (bugs 4087, 4223).
760 Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS for a detailed list of changes.
762 - New LyX functions, master-buffer-view and master-buffer-update, have
763 been added, to view the master buffer associated with a given child
764 buffer. These are bound by default to C-M-t and C-M-d, for Postscript
765 and DVI, respectively, for view, and to C-M-S-t and C-M-S-d, for update.
767 - The debug output obtained with the '-dbg painting' option has been
768 modified to be more verbose and in line with the LyX development
774 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
776 - Reconfiguration failure will no longer result in empty textclass lists.
777 Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829).
779 - Check if the .lyx file has been externally modified when a buffer is saved.
781 - Fix conversion from older documents if koi8 is used as the document
784 - Handle array column specifiers @{decl.}, p{width} and the extensions by
785 array.sty in mathed (bug 4132).
787 - Detect (pdf)tex's file:line:error style messages that are used by some
788 distributions and that caused LyX to ignore LaTeX errors (bug 4222).
790 - Fix LaTeX error with captions in Program Listings (bug 4182).
794 - Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with document tabs (bug 4123).
796 - Fix a crash when clicking in a tabular cell and the "delete empty paragraph"
797 mechanism triggers (bug 4133).
799 - Fix a crash when using the LFUN 'buffer-write-as' with an argument
800 that is not an absolute path (bug 4135).
802 - Fix a crash when a user removes the underlying figure of a graphic inset
803 that has been copied and pasted (bug 4108).
805 - Fix a crash when inserting a float.
807 - Fix a crash on quitting if graphics were selected (bug 4178).
809 - Fix a crash when a user removes a formula when its preview is being
810 generated (gcc 3 only).
812 - Fix a crash when using the down arrow in an empty math subscript (bug 4117).
814 - Fix a crash when logging out from within the Gnome desktop (bug 1656).
816 - Fix a crash when exporting a file with graphics to LaTeX on Windows
819 - Fix a crash when a counter was ill-defined in a layout file (bug 4232).
821 - Fix a crash with View>PDF on the Mac. This occurred only when LyX was
822 compiled with gcc's stdlib-debug option (bug 4014).
824 - Fix performance problem related to Clipboard and Selection on X11
825 platforms (bug 4045).
827 - Only update the toolbars that are actually visible. This improves LyX's
828 performance on editing.
830 - Further improve performance on editing by reducing the update calls of the
831 math panel toolbar to the bare essentials.
833 - Fix the loading of non-LyX child documents with relative path names. Change
834 'Load' to 'Edit' in the child document dialog (bugs 4107 and 4111).
836 - Allow roman numerals beyond 20 (bug 4112).
838 - Render malformed tables correctly (bug 580).
840 - Enable File>Revert when the file is externally modified, and rename
841 this menu item to "File>Revert to saved" (bugs 3766 and 4114).
843 - Update the screen when leaving a 'wide' inset using the up- and down-arrows.
845 - Fix a problem where the Delete button in the citation dialog was erroneously
848 - Reset the current cursor font when going to a bookmark.
850 - Fix an icorrect handling of spaces in change tracking mode (bug 3961).
852 - Fix a failure to close the window when a modified document is saved
855 - Highlight search text in the find dialog (bug 3999).
857 - Fix the deletion of paragraphs with leading spaces (bug 3600).
859 - Fix the loss of start-of-appendix information when creating/deleting an
860 empty paragraph (bug 4212).
862 - "Revert" and "Save As" are no longer treated as external modifications
863 of the document (bug 4193).
865 - Fix a bug where the "longest label" widget in the paragraph dialog was
866 disabled after its content was deleted (bug 4127).
868 - Fix a bug where the cursor was largely off-screen on document opening
871 - Fix a bug where fixed width insets were not honoured correctly (bug 4029).
873 - Fix a bug where the current document was closed unexpectedly when
874 typing a space after switching between 2 documents with the file->Open
877 - Fix bug in box dialog where the inner box was empty when switching
878 the box decoration (bug 4233).
883 - Fix installation links for Hebrew (bug 4165).
885 - Correct the description of list of algorithms in the Embedded Objects manual.
887 - Fix the appearance of the word "LyX" in PDF-bookmarks in the
888 Introduction manual (bug 2435).
890 - removed description of the program "reLyX" that was replaced in LyX 1.4 by
894 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
896 - Upgrade to boost 1.34.1.
898 - Upgrade to gettext 0.14.6.
900 - On all supported platforms, allow Qt 4.2 or higher to use the math fonts in
901 <sysdir>/fonts without the need to install them.
903 - Make configure.py remove a log file generated by MikTeX and copy the file
904 chkconfig.ltx to the user dir using default permissions (thus avoiding a
905 bug on Cygwin where python doesn't copy ACLs associated with a file).
907 - Clarify an error message for --without-included-boost.
909 - Better alignment of the version info output.
911 - Remove the /TP (force to use C++ compiler) option from scons/msvc.
913 - Allow the use of a snapshot version of scons.
915 - Fix usage display for lib/doc_toc.py (bug 3798).
918 What's new in version 1.5.1?
919 ----------------------------
924 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
926 - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390).
932 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
934 - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set.
935 This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1
936 earlier than anticipated.
938 - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language
941 - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some
944 - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086).
946 - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094).
950 - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096).
952 - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969).
954 - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse
957 - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only).
959 - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection
960 is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672).
962 - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected
963 text in the URL inset (bug 683).
965 - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when
966 updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).
968 - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on
969 platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076).
971 - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571).
973 - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023).
976 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
978 - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which
979 can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct.
981 - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument
982 converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also
983 checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor.
985 - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed.
988 What's new in version 1.5.0?
989 ----------------------------
991 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
992 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
993 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
997 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
998 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
999 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
1000 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
1001 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
1002 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
1003 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
1004 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
1005 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
1006 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
1009 * Integrated CJK support
1011 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
1012 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
1013 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
1015 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
1016 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
1017 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
1018 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
1022 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
1023 have full user interface support.
1025 * Multiple views of the same buffer
1027 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
1028 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
1029 parts of it synchronously.
1031 * Outliner and embedded TOC
1033 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
1034 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
1035 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1036 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
1038 * Session management
1040 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
1041 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
1042 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
1043 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
1044 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
1045 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
1047 * Source code Viewer
1049 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
1050 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
1053 * New Font Selection Interface
1055 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
1056 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
1057 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
1059 * Tabular extensions
1061 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
1062 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
1063 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
1067 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
1068 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
1069 glossaries and fancy notations.
1073 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
1075 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
1077 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
1078 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
1079 to the math toolbars.
1080 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
1081 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
1085 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
1086 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
1087 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
1088 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
1089 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
1090 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
1091 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
1092 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
1093 essentially stalled.
1095 * Change tracking enhancements
1097 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
1098 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
1100 * Converter file cache
1102 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
1103 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
1104 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
1105 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
1106 is enabled by default.
1108 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
1111 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
1113 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
1115 * Unified Windows installer
1117 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
1118 both installers are welcome.
1122 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
1123 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
1124 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
1126 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
1127 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
1129 * LaTeX-package support
1131 LyX provides the following new document classes:
1132 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
1133 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
1134 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
1135 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
1136 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
1138 * Minor user interface improvements
1140 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
1142 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
1143 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
1144 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
1146 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
1148 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
1149 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
1150 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
1151 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
1152 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
1153 even after the selection has been cleared.
1155 * Limited support for local class and layout files
1157 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
1158 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
1159 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
1160 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
1161 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
1162 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
1163 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
1167 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
1168 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
1169 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
1170 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
1171 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1172 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
1173 series has been to bring this speed back.
1177 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1178 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1181 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
1182 ----------------------------
1184 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
1185 We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
1186 any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
1187 in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
1189 Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
1190 and polished the graphical interface.
1192 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
1193 ----------------------------
1195 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
1196 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
1197 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
1198 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
1200 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
1201 ----------------------------
1203 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
1204 and added some improvements:
1206 * A new inset to support code listings.
1207 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
1208 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
1210 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
1211 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
1213 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
1214 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
1217 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
1218 ----------------------------
1220 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
1221 added some graphical improvements:
1222 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
1223 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
1224 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
1226 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
1227 the user interface have been made, such as:
1229 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
1230 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
1231 - Support optional argument for environments
1233 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
1234 ----------------------------
1238 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
1239 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
1240 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
1241 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
1242 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
1243 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
1244 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
1245 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
1246 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
1247 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
1250 * Integrated CJK support
1252 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
1253 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
1255 * Multiple views of the same buffer
1257 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
1258 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
1259 parts of it synchronously.
1263 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
1264 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
1265 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1268 * Session management
1270 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
1271 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
1272 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
1273 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
1274 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
1275 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
1277 * Source code Viewer
1279 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
1280 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
1283 * New Font Selection Interface
1285 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
1286 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
1287 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
1289 * Tabular extensions
1291 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
1292 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
1293 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
1298 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
1299 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
1300 glossaries and fancy notations.
1304 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
1308 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
1309 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
1310 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
1311 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
1312 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
1313 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
1314 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
1315 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
1316 essentially stalled.
1318 * Change tracking enhancements
1320 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
1321 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
1323 * Converter file cache
1325 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
1326 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
1327 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
1328 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
1329 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
1330 you want to use it, add the line
1331 \use_converter_cache true
1333 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
1334 6 months. You can change that with the line
1335 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
1337 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
1339 * Unified Windows installer
1341 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
1342 both installers are welcome.
1346 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
1347 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
1348 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
1349 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
1350 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1351 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
1352 series has been to bring this speed back.
1355 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
1356 ------------------------------
1358 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
1359 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
1362 What's new in version 1.4.5?
1363 ----------------------------
1368 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
1370 - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
1376 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1378 - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
1380 - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
1381 settings (bug 3416).
1383 - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
1385 - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
1388 - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
1392 - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
1393 last paragraph (bug 3303).
1395 - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
1396 math insets (bug 3358).
1398 - Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
1400 - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
1402 - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
1404 - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
1406 - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
1409 - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
1411 - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
1412 Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
1414 - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
1416 - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
1419 - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
1422 - Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
1424 - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
1426 - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
1428 - Fix undo for special characters.
1430 - Fix gui for big delimiters.
1432 - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
1433 delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
1435 - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
1437 - Fix example for docbook-article.
1439 - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
1441 - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
1446 - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
1449 - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
1451 - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
1453 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
1455 - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
1457 - Allow automake 1.10 for building.
1459 - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
1460 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
1461 2.3.x python releases).
1464 What's new in version 1.4.4?
1465 ----------------------------
1470 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1472 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
1474 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
1476 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
1477 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
1478 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
1479 if you want to use this feature.
1481 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
1483 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
1484 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
1485 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
1486 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
1487 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
1489 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
1493 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
1494 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
1496 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
1497 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
1499 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
1500 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
1503 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
1505 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
1506 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
1508 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
1510 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
1511 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
1512 floats, notes, and boxes.
1514 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
1516 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
1517 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
1519 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
1520 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
1521 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
1527 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1529 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
1530 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
1531 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
1533 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
1536 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
1538 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
1540 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
1543 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
1546 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
1548 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
1551 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
1552 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
1553 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
1555 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
1557 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
1559 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
1562 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
1564 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
1567 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
1569 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
1571 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
1573 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
1575 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
1576 it cannot be omitted.
1580 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
1582 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
1584 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
1585 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
1587 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
1588 taller than the workarea.
1590 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
1591 related to large insets.
1593 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
1594 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
1597 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
1598 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
1600 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
1603 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
1606 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
1608 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
1610 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
1611 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
1613 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
1614 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
1615 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
1617 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
1620 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
1621 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
1623 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
1625 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
1627 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
1629 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
1630 inset, do not open it by mistake.
1632 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
1633 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
1635 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
1637 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
1639 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
1641 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
1643 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
1644 French keyboard too.
1646 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
1648 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
1650 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
1652 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
1654 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
1656 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
1658 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
1660 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
1661 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
1663 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
1665 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
1667 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
1669 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
1671 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
1674 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
1675 a document. This is fixed.
1677 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
1678 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
1679 (bug 3066) [qt only].
1681 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
1682 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
1684 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
1685 in preferences (bug 895)
1687 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
1690 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
1692 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
1694 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
1698 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
1700 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
1703 What's new in version 1.4.3?
1704 ----------------------------
1708 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
1709 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
1711 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
1712 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
1715 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
1717 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
1719 - Some small updates to the documentation.
1721 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
1722 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
1724 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
1725 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
1729 * Document Input/Output
1731 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
1733 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
1736 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
1738 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
1739 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
1741 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
1742 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
1745 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
1746 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
1748 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
1749 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
1751 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
1753 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
1755 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
1757 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
1761 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
1762 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
1764 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
1765 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
1767 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
1768 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
1770 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
1772 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
1774 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
1776 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
1778 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
1781 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
1783 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
1785 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
1787 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
1790 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
1792 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
1793 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
1795 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
1796 if it exists (bug 2779).
1798 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
1799 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
1801 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
1802 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
1804 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
1806 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
1808 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
1810 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
1812 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
1813 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
1815 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
1816 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
1818 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
1820 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
1822 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
1824 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
1826 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
1827 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
1829 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
1830 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
1832 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
1834 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
1835 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
1837 * Build/installation:
1839 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
1841 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
1842 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
1844 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
1845 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
1847 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
1849 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
1851 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
1852 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
1853 package under cygwin.
1855 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
1856 development/cmake/README.cmake
1858 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
1859 project and scons or CMake.
1863 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
1865 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
1867 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
1869 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
1871 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
1872 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
1874 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
1876 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
1877 replaced by tex2LyX.
1880 What's new in version 1.4.2?
1881 ----------------------------
1885 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
1886 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
1888 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
1889 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
1892 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
1893 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
1895 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
1896 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
1898 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
1900 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
1901 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
1902 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
1904 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
1905 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
1908 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
1910 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
1912 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
1914 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
1915 the math panel yet.)
1921 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
1923 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
1926 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
1927 an inset (bug 2526).
1929 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
1930 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
1932 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
1933 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
1935 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
1938 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
1939 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
1941 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
1944 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
1945 change tracking mode.
1947 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
1948 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
1950 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
1951 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
1953 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
1954 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
1956 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
1959 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
1962 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
1964 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
1965 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
1967 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
1969 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
1970 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
1972 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
1974 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
1976 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
1980 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
1983 - Fix undo in matrices.
1985 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
1987 * Document input/output:
1989 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
1992 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
1993 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
1995 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
1996 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
1997 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
1999 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
2001 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
2004 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
2006 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
2008 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
2010 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
2012 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
2013 pdflatex (bug 2235).
2015 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
2017 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
2021 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
2022 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
2023 has also been pythonified.
2025 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
2028 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
2029 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
2030 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
2031 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
2033 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
2034 directory on Windows.
2036 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
2037 rename the executable files.
2039 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
2040 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
2042 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
2044 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
2045 in the source package.
2047 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
2050 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
2052 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
2053 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
2056 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
2057 support via zlib is now a requirement.
2059 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
2062 What's new in version 1.4.1?
2063 ----------------------------
2067 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
2070 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
2071 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
2072 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
2074 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
2075 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
2077 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
2083 * Document input/output:
2085 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
2087 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
2089 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
2092 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
2094 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
2096 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
2098 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
2100 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
2103 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
2105 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
2107 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
2109 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
2111 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
2112 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
2113 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
2118 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
2120 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
2122 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
2124 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
2127 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
2130 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
2132 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
2134 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
2136 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
2141 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
2143 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
2145 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
2146 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
2148 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
2150 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
2152 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
2153 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
2155 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
2156 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
2158 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
2160 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
2162 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
2164 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
2165 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
2167 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
2169 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
2171 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
2173 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
2175 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
2177 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
2179 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
2181 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
2183 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
2185 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
2186 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
2188 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
2191 * Configuration/Installation:
2193 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
2194 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
2196 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
2199 What's new in version 1.4.0?
2200 ----------------------------
2202 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
2203 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
2204 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
2206 ** Improved user interface
2208 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
2209 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
2210 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
2211 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
2212 classic UI) is still available, for now.
2214 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
2215 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
2216 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
2217 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
2218 available: one for tables, and one for math.
2220 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
2221 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
2226 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
2227 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
2228 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
2231 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
2233 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
2234 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
2235 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
2236 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
2240 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
2241 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
2242 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
2243 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
2249 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
2250 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
2251 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
2253 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
2254 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
2255 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
2257 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
2259 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
2260 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
2265 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
2266 the Insert>Note menu:
2268 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
2269 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
2271 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
2272 well, greyed-out text.
2274 ** Better language and numbering on screen
2276 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
2278 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
2279 the language of the document, which may be different from the
2280 language of the menus;
2281 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
2282 document class specifications.
2286 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
2287 count of the document or of the current selection.
2291 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
2292 of errors popping up at compilation time.
2294 ** Improved bibliography support
2296 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
2297 "before citation" field is supported;
2298 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
2299 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
2301 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
2302 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
2303 index processor is invoked).
2305 ** Improved microtypography support
2307 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
2309 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
2310 between "e." and "g.");
2311 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
2312 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
2313 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
2314 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
2315 much space between figure/table and caption.
2319 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
2321 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
2324 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
2325 edit the included figure
2327 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
2328 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
2332 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
2333 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
2336 What's new in version 1.3.7?
2337 ----------------------------
2339 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
2340 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
2343 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
2344 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
2346 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
2347 installer and in the handling of file names.
2349 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
2352 What's new in version 1.3.6?
2353 ----------------------------
2355 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
2357 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
2358 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
2359 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
2360 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
2361 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
2362 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
2363 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
2365 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
2366 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
2367 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
2369 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
2370 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
2371 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
2372 considered as part of words
2376 What's new in version 1.3.5?
2377 ----------------------------
2379 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
2380 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
2381 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
2382 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
2383 case where the files are in different directories.
2384 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
2386 What's new in version 1.3.4?
2387 ----------------------------
2389 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
2391 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
2392 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
2393 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
2394 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
2396 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
2397 * The interface and documentation localization have
2400 What's new in version 1.3.3?
2401 ----------------------------
2403 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
2405 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
2406 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
2407 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
2408 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
2409 the user interface and documentation.
2411 What's new in version 1.3.2?
2412 ----------------------------
2414 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
2416 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
2418 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
2419 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
2422 What's new in version 1.3.1?
2423 ----------------------------
2425 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
2426 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
2427 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
2428 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
2429 improvements) for good measure.
2433 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
2434 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
2436 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
2437 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
2439 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
2440 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
2441 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
2442 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
2445 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
2446 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
2447 (documentation has been updated too)
2449 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
2450 spanish translation of menus
2452 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
2453 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
2454 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
2456 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2457 ----------------------------
2459 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
2460 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
2461 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
2462 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
2463 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
2465 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
2466 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
2467 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
2471 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
2472 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
2473 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
2474 functionally equivalent.
2476 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
2477 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
2478 symbols displayed properly.
2482 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
2483 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
2484 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
2489 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
2490 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
2491 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
2492 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
2493 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
2494 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
2495 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
2496 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
2497 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
2498 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
2502 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
2503 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
2504 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
2505 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
2506 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
2507 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
2508 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
2509 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
2510 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
2511 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
2512 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
2513 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
2514 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
2515 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
2516 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
2518 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
2519 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
2521 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
2522 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
2523 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
2524 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
2525 the inset and press 'backspace'.
2527 ** Reading old files
2529 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
2530 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
2531 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
2532 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
2534 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
2535 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
2536 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
2537 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
2539 ** Miscellaneous changes
2541 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
2542 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
2543 configure your font server).
2545 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
2546 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
2549 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
2550 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
2553 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
2554 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
2555 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
2559 What's new in version 1.2.3?
2560 ----------------------------
2562 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
2563 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
2564 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
2565 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
2569 - updated italian User Guide
2571 - updated french localization
2574 What's new in version 1.2.2?
2575 ----------------------------
2577 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
2578 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
2583 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
2584 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
2585 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
2587 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
2588 when dragging the mouse)
2590 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
2591 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
2592 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
2595 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
2596 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
2597 who are not aware that it is needed
2599 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
2600 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
2602 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
2603 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
2605 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
2607 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
2609 - update sciword bindings
2611 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
2612 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
2614 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
2618 What's new in version 1.2.1?
2619 ----------------------------
2621 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
2622 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
2623 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
2624 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
2629 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
2630 when this gets released)
2632 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
2633 the performance problems
2635 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
2637 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
2638 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
2639 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
2641 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
2644 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
2645 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
2646 help entering of ERT insets)
2648 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
2650 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
2652 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
2654 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
2655 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
2658 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
2660 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
2663 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
2664 line and have this file created for you
2666 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
2667 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
2670 What's new in version 1.2.0?
2671 ----------------------------
2673 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
2674 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
2675 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
2676 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
2677 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
2680 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
2681 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
2684 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
2685 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
2688 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
2689 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
2690 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
2692 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
2695 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
2696 appear in the output.
2698 - New minipage inset
2700 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
2701 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
2705 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
2707 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
2708 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
2709 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
2712 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
2716 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
2717 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
2718 process, among which:
2720 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
2722 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
2723 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
2724 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
2726 - support for many amsmath features
2727 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
2728 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
2729 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
2730 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
2733 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
2735 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
2737 - Improvements to the parser
2739 - Improvements to math text mode
2741 - (Better) support for nested macros
2743 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
2745 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
2747 - GUI support provided for many more features
2750 Other changes include:
2752 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
2755 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
2756 improved in the process
2758 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
2759 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
2760 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
2762 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
2765 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
2766 "shelfful", or many german words
2768 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
2769 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
2770 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
2771 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
2773 - Updated documentation
2775 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
2778 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
2780 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
2782 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
2784 - Babel can be disabled
2786 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
2788 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
2789 ------------------------------------
2791 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
2795 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
2797 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
2798 appears to be more suitable.
2800 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
2801 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
2803 - add support for dvipdfm
2805 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
2806 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
2808 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
2811 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
2813 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
2816 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
2818 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
2821 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
2822 ------------------------------------
2824 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
2828 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
2831 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
2832 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
2834 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
2837 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
2838 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
2840 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
2841 Theoretical Computer Science
2843 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
2845 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
2846 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
2848 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
2849 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
2850 with the older version
2853 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
2854 ------------------------------------
2856 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
2860 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
2862 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
2863 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
2864 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
2866 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
2867 documentation update.
2869 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
2872 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
2873 ------------------------------------
2875 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
2879 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
2880 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
2882 - better support for ukrainian language
2884 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
2885 working --with-lyx-suffix.
2887 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
2888 line-delete-forward.
2890 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
2892 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
2895 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
2896 --------------------------------
2898 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
2899 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
2900 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
2902 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
2903 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
2904 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
2905 from the older development version:
2907 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
2908 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
2909 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
2910 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
2911 have been overhauled.
2913 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
2916 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
2917 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
2919 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
2921 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
2922 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
2923 will give you an idea of what is happening.
2925 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
2927 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
2928 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
2929 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
2930 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
2931 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
2932 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
2933 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
2935 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
2936 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
2937 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
2940 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
2941 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
2942 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
2943 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
2944 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
2945 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
2947 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
2948 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
2949 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
2950 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
2951 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
2953 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
2955 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
2957 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
2958 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
2959 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
2960 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
2961 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
2962 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
2964 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
2966 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
2969 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
2970 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
2972 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
2973 mentioned here for your information
2975 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
2976 (this can be changed in preferences).
2978 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
2983 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
2984 --------------------------------
2986 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
2987 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
2988 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
2990 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
2991 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
2993 User-visible changes:
2995 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
2997 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
2999 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
3001 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
3003 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
3004 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
3006 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
3007 command-line/window:
3008 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
3010 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
3011 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
3013 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
3015 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
3017 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
3019 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
3020 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
3021 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
3022 (And you probably had the error always.)
3024 - Better definition for LyXList style.
3026 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
3027 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
3029 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
3031 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
3032 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
3033 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
3034 support is of course not supported in older versions.
3036 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
3038 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
3039 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
3041 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
3042 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
3044 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
3045 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
3046 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
3047 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
3050 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
3051 --------------------------------
3053 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
3054 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
3055 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
3058 In the user-visible department, we find:
3060 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
3061 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
3062 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
3063 the GUI pops up during the process...
3065 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
3067 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
3068 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
3070 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
3071 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
3072 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
3073 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
3075 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
3078 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
3079 --------------------------------
3081 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
3082 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
3084 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
3085 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
3086 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
3088 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
3089 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
3092 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
3095 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
3097 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
3098 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
3099 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
3100 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
3101 for the sake of correctness.
3103 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
3104 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
3106 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
3107 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
3109 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
3111 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
3113 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
3115 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
3116 --------------------------------
3118 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
3120 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
3121 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
3122 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
3124 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
3126 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
3128 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
3130 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
3131 has also been fixed.
3133 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
3134 --------------------------------
3136 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
3137 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
3138 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
3139 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
3140 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
3141 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
3143 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
3145 - New export to HTML feature
3147 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
3149 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
3150 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
3151 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
3153 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
3154 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
3155 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
3157 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
3158 --------------------------------------------------
3160 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
3161 new features has been included:
3167 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
3169 - Several language files updated.
3171 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
3173 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
3174 --------------------------------------------------
3176 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
3178 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
3181 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
3183 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
3185 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
3186 --------------------------------------------------
3188 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
3189 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
3191 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
3193 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
3194 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
3196 - Better multipart document support.
3198 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
3201 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
3204 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
3205 --------------------------------------------------
3207 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
3208 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
3210 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
3212 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
3214 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
3216 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
3218 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
3222 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
3223 ----------------------------------------------------
3225 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
3226 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
3228 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
3229 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
3230 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
3231 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
3232 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
3234 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
3235 footnotes, and generally better output.
3237 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
3238 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
3239 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
3240 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
3241 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
3243 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
3244 and error message translations) for several languages.
3246 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
3247 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
3248 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
3250 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
3252 - Improved table support.
3254 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
3256 - easier handling of index entries.
3258 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
3259 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
3260 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
3261 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
3264 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
3265 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as