1 What's new in version 2.3.4?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
6 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
7 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
8 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
9 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
10 Dropbox folders and another involving missing included files.
13 What's new in version 2.3.3?
14 ----------------------------
16 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
18 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
19 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
20 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
21 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
22 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
23 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
26 What's new in version 2.3.2?
27 ----------------------------
29 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
31 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
32 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
33 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
34 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
35 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
36 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental.
39 What's new in version 2.3.1?
40 ----------------------------
42 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
44 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
45 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
46 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
48 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
49 python 2.x and python 3.x.
51 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
52 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
53 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
54 using the default keybindings).
57 What's new in version 2.3.0?
58 ----------------------------
60 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
61 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
64 * Multiple bibliographies
66 * Quotation marks enhancements
67 * Updates to reference handling
68 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
70 * New supported languages
71 * New supported LaTeX commands
72 * New template for Inkscape drawings
73 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
75 * Localization of nomenclature
76 * New translations of the LyX user interface
77 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
78 * Automatic detection of file changes
79 * Citation & reference dialogs
80 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
81 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
82 * Outliner and navigation menu
83 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
85 * Code preview & highlighting
88 What's new in version 2.2.3?
89 ----------------------------
91 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
93 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
94 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
95 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
96 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
99 What's new in version 2.2.2?
100 ----------------------------
102 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
104 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
105 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
106 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
108 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
109 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
111 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
112 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
113 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
114 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
118 What's new in version 2.2.1?
119 ----------------------------
121 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
123 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
124 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
125 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
126 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
127 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
130 What's new in version 2.2.0?
131 ----------------------------
133 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
134 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
136 * HiDPI display support
138 * New text display algorithm
139 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
140 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
141 * Improved text color support
142 * Improved box dialog
143 * Improved table context menu
144 * Reworked instant preview
145 * Enhanced source panel
146 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
147 * Enhanced language support
148 * New supported languages
149 * New supported LaTeX commands
150 * Layout enhancements
151 * Module enhancements
152 * New preferences settings
156 What's new in version 2.1.5?
157 ----------------------------
159 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
160 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
162 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
163 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
164 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
167 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
168 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
169 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
170 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
173 What's new in version 2.1.4?
174 ----------------------------
176 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
178 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
179 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
180 to upgrade to this version.
183 What's new in version 2.1.3?
184 ----------------------------
186 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
188 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
189 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
190 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
193 What's new in version 2.1.2?
194 ----------------------------
196 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
198 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
199 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
200 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
201 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
202 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
203 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
206 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
207 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
208 of older beamer documents easier.
211 What's new in version 2.1.1?
212 ----------------------------
214 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
215 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
216 release announcement for the details.
218 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
219 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
220 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
221 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
222 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
223 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
225 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
226 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
227 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
229 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
230 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
231 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
232 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
235 What's new in version 2.1.0?
236 ----------------------------
238 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
239 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
241 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
242 * New supported languages
243 * Tex Fonts Additions
244 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
245 * Document class categories
246 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
247 * New supported LaTeX commands
248 * New export command-line option
250 * Layout enhancements
252 * Equation Editor "mode"
255 What's new in version 2.0.8?
256 ----------------------------
258 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
259 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
260 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
262 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
263 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
264 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
265 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
266 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
267 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
270 What's new in version 2.0.7?
271 ----------------------------
273 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
274 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
275 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
276 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
279 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
280 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
283 What's new in version 2.0.6?
284 ----------------------------
286 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
287 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
288 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
291 What's new in version 2.0.5?
292 ----------------------------
294 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
295 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
296 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
297 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
300 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
301 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
302 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
303 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
304 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
305 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
306 - Menu functions are unchanged.
309 What's new in version 2.0.4?
310 ----------------------------
312 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
313 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
314 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
315 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
316 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
317 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
320 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
321 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
322 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
323 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
324 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
326 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
327 will continue for 2.0.5.
330 What's new in version 2.0.3?
331 ----------------------------
333 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
334 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
336 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
337 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
338 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
339 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
340 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
342 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
343 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
346 What's new in version 2.0.2?
347 ----------------------------
349 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
350 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
351 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
353 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
354 below for the details.
356 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
359 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
360 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
361 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
362 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
363 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
366 What's new in version 2.0.1?
367 ----------------------------
369 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
370 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
371 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
372 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
373 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
374 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
378 What's new in version 2.0.0?
379 ----------------------------
381 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
382 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
384 * Advanced Search Facility
385 * Spell-checking on the Fly
386 * Compare Documents Feature
388 * Multilingual Thesaurus
390 * Multiple Indices Support
391 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
392 * Enhanced Instant Preview
393 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
394 * Enhanced Version Control Features
395 * Typesetting in background
398 What's new in version 1.6.10?
399 ------------------------------
400 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
401 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
402 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
403 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
404 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
408 What's new in version 1.6.9?
409 -----------------------------
411 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
412 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
413 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
414 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
417 What's new in version 1.6.8?
418 -----------------------------
420 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
421 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
422 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
423 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
426 What's new in version 1.6.7?
427 -----------------------------
429 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
430 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
431 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
432 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
436 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
437 ------------------------------
439 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
440 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
441 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
442 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
445 What's new in version 1.6.6?
446 -----------------------------
448 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
449 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
450 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
451 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
452 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
453 spelling in parallel).
456 What's new in version 1.6.5?
457 -----------------------------
459 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
460 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
461 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
462 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
463 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
466 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
467 -------------------------------
469 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
470 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
473 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
474 -------------------------------
476 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
477 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
478 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
481 What's new in version 1.6.4?
482 -------------------------------
484 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
485 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
488 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
489 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
490 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
491 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
492 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
493 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
494 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
495 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
498 What's new in version 1.6.3?
499 -------------------------------
501 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
502 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
504 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
505 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
506 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
507 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
509 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
510 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
511 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
512 compiled against Qt 4.5.
515 What's new in version 1.6.2?
516 -------------------------------
518 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
519 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
520 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
521 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
522 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
523 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
524 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
527 What's new in version 1.6.1?
528 -------------------------------
530 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
531 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
532 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
536 What's new in version 1.6.0?
537 -------------------------------
539 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
540 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
542 * Multiple Work Areas
544 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
546 * Layout combobox changes
547 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
548 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
550 * New implementation of math macros
555 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
556 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
557 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
562 * Graphics parameters groups
563 * LyX functions manual
564 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
567 What's new in version 1.5.7?
568 ----------------------------
570 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
571 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
572 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
573 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
574 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
575 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
578 What's new in version 1.5.6?
579 ----------------------------
581 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
582 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
583 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
584 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
587 What's new in version 1.5.5?
588 ----------------------------
590 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
591 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
592 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
593 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
594 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
597 What's new in version 1.5.4?
598 ----------------------------
600 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
601 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
602 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
603 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
606 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
607 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
608 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
609 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
610 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
613 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
614 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
615 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
616 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
617 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
618 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
619 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
620 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
623 What's new in version 1.5.3?
624 ----------------------------
626 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
627 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
628 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
629 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
630 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
631 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
632 version also provides some new features.
635 What's new in version 1.5.2?
636 ----------------------------
638 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
639 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
640 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
641 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
644 What's new in version 1.5.1?
645 ----------------------------
647 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
648 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
649 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
650 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
651 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
653 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
656 What's new in version 1.5.0?
657 ----------------------------
659 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
660 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
661 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
665 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
666 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
667 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
668 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
669 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
670 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
671 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
672 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
673 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
674 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
677 * Integrated CJK support
679 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
680 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
681 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
683 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
684 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
685 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
686 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
690 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
691 have full user interface support.
693 * Multiple views of the same buffer
695 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
696 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
697 parts of it synchronously.
699 * Outliner and embedded TOC
701 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
702 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
703 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
704 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
708 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
709 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
710 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
711 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
712 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
713 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
717 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
718 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
721 * New Font Selection Interface
723 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
724 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
725 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
729 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
730 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
731 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
735 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
736 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
737 glossaries and fancy notations.
741 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
743 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
745 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
746 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
747 to the math toolbars.
748 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
749 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
753 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
754 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
755 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
756 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
757 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
758 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
759 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
760 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
763 * Change tracking enhancements
765 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
766 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
768 * Converter file cache
770 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
771 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
772 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
773 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
774 is enabled by default.
776 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
779 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
781 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
783 * Unified Windows installer
785 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
786 both installers are welcome.
790 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
791 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
792 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
794 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
795 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
797 * LaTeX-package support
799 LyX provides the following new document classes:
800 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
801 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
802 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
803 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
804 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
806 * Minor user interface improvements
808 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
810 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
811 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
812 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
814 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
816 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
817 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
818 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
819 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
820 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
821 even after the selection has been cleared.
823 * Limited support for local class and layout files
825 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
826 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
827 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
828 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
829 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
830 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
831 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
835 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
836 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
837 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
838 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
839 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
840 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
841 series has been to bring this speed back.
845 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
846 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
849 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
850 ------------------------------
852 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
853 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
856 What's new in version 1.4.5?
857 ----------------------------
859 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
860 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
861 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
862 python 2.3.4 or later).
865 What's new in version 1.4.4?
866 ----------------------------
868 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
870 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
871 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
873 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
874 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
876 *) Improved documentation.
878 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
881 What's new in version 1.4.3?
882 ----------------------------
884 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
885 support. Notable new features include:
887 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
888 installation anymore.
890 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
891 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
892 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
893 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
895 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
899 What's new in version 1.4.2?
900 ----------------------------
902 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
904 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
905 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
907 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
909 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
910 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
911 be compressed on disk or not.
913 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
914 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
915 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
918 What's new in version 1.4.1?
919 ----------------------------
921 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
923 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
924 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
926 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
929 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
931 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
933 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
934 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
937 What's new in version 1.4.0?
938 ----------------------------
940 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
941 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
942 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
944 ** Improved user interface
946 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
947 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
948 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
949 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
950 classic UI) is still available, for now.
952 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
953 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
954 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
955 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
956 available: one for tables, and one for math.
958 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
959 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
964 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
965 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
966 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
969 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
971 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
972 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
973 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
974 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
978 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
979 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
980 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
981 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
987 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
988 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
989 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
991 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
992 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
993 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
995 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
997 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
998 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1003 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1004 the Insert>Note menu:
1006 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1007 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1009 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1010 well, greyed-out text.
1012 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1014 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1016 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1017 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1018 language of the menus;
1019 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1020 document class specifications.
1024 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1025 count of the document or of the current selection.
1029 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1030 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1032 ** Improved bibliography support
1034 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1035 "before citation" field is supported;
1036 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1037 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1039 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1040 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1041 index processor is invoked).
1043 ** Improved microtypography support
1045 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1047 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1048 between "e." and "g.");
1049 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1050 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1051 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1052 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1053 much space between figure/table and caption.
1057 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1059 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1062 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1063 edit the included figure
1065 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1066 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1070 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1071 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1074 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1075 ----------------------------
1077 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1078 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1081 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1082 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1084 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1085 installer and in the handling of file names.
1087 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1090 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1091 ----------------------------
1093 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1095 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1096 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1097 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1098 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1099 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1100 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1101 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1103 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1104 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1105 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1107 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1108 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1109 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1110 considered as part of words
1114 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1115 ----------------------------
1117 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1118 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1119 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1120 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1121 case where the files are in different directories.
1122 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1124 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1125 ----------------------------
1127 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1129 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1130 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1131 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1132 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1134 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1135 * The interface and documentation localization have
1138 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1139 ----------------------------
1141 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1143 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1144 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1145 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1146 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1147 the user interface and documentation.
1149 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1150 ----------------------------
1152 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1154 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1156 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1157 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1160 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1161 ----------------------------
1163 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1164 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1165 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1166 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1167 improvements) for good measure.
1171 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1172 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1174 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1175 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1177 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1178 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1179 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1180 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1183 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1184 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1185 (documentation has been updated too)
1187 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1188 spanish translation of menus
1190 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1191 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1192 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1194 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1195 ----------------------------
1197 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1198 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1199 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1200 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1201 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1203 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1204 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1205 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1209 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1210 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1211 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1212 functionally equivalent.
1214 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1215 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1216 symbols displayed properly.
1220 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1221 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1222 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1227 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1228 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1229 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1230 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1231 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1232 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1233 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1234 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1235 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1236 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1240 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1241 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1242 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1243 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1244 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1245 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1246 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1247 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1248 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1249 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1250 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1251 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1252 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1253 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1254 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1256 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1257 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1259 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1260 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1261 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1262 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1263 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1265 ** Reading old files
1267 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1268 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1269 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1270 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1272 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1273 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1274 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1275 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1277 ** Miscellaneous changes
1279 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1280 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1281 configure your font server).
1283 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1284 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1287 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1288 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1291 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1292 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1293 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1297 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1298 ----------------------------
1300 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1301 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1302 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1303 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1307 - updated italian User Guide
1309 - updated french localization
1312 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1313 ----------------------------
1315 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1316 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1321 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1322 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1323 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1325 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1326 when dragging the mouse)
1328 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1329 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1330 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1333 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1334 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1335 who are not aware that it is needed
1337 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1338 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1340 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1341 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1343 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1345 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1347 - update sciword bindings
1349 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1350 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1352 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1356 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1357 ----------------------------
1359 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1360 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1361 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1362 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1367 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1368 when this gets released)
1370 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1371 the performance problems
1373 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1375 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1376 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1377 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1379 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1382 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1383 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1384 help entering of ERT insets)
1386 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1388 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1390 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1392 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1393 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1396 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1398 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1401 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1402 line and have this file created for you
1404 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1405 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1408 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1409 ----------------------------
1411 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1412 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1413 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1414 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1415 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1418 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1419 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1422 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1423 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1426 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1427 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1428 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1430 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1433 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1434 appear in the output.
1436 - New minipage inset
1438 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1439 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1443 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1445 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1446 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1447 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1450 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1454 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1455 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1456 process, among which:
1458 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1460 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1461 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1462 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1464 - support for many amsmath features
1465 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1466 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1467 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1468 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1471 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1473 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1475 - Improvements to the parser
1477 - Improvements to math text mode
1479 - (Better) support for nested macros
1481 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1483 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1485 - GUI support provided for many more features
1488 Other changes include:
1490 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1493 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1494 improved in the process
1496 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1497 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1498 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1500 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1503 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1504 "shelfful", or many german words
1506 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1507 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1508 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1509 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1511 - Updated documentation
1513 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1516 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1518 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1520 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1522 - Babel can be disabled
1524 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1526 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1527 ------------------------------------
1529 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1533 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1535 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1536 appears to be more suitable.
1538 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1539 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1541 - add support for dvipdfm
1543 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1544 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1546 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1549 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1551 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1554 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1556 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1559 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1560 ------------------------------------
1562 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1566 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1569 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1570 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1572 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1575 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1576 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1578 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1579 Theoretical Computer Science
1581 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1583 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1584 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1586 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1587 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1588 with the older version
1591 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1592 ------------------------------------
1594 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1598 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1600 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1601 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1602 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1604 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1605 documentation update.
1607 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1610 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1611 ------------------------------------
1613 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1617 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1618 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1620 - better support for ukrainian language
1622 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1623 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1625 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1626 line-delete-forward.
1628 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1630 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1633 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1634 --------------------------------
1636 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1637 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1638 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1640 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1641 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1642 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1643 from the older development version:
1645 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1646 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1647 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1648 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1649 have been overhauled.
1651 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1654 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1655 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1657 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1659 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1660 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1661 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1663 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1665 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1666 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1667 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1668 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1669 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1670 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1671 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1673 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1674 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1675 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1678 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1679 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1680 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1681 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1682 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1683 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1685 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1686 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1687 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1688 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1689 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1691 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1693 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1695 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1696 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1697 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1698 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1699 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1700 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1702 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1704 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1707 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1708 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1710 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1711 mentioned here for your information
1713 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1714 (this can be changed in preferences).
1716 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1721 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1722 --------------------------------
1724 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1725 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1726 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1728 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1729 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1731 User-visible changes:
1733 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1735 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1737 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1739 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1741 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1742 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1744 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1745 command-line/window:
1746 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1748 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1749 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1751 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1753 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1755 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1757 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1758 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1759 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1760 (And you probably had the error always.)
1762 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1764 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1765 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1767 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1769 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1770 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1771 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1772 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1774 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1776 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1777 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1779 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1780 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1782 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1783 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1784 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1785 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1788 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1789 --------------------------------
1791 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1792 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1793 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1796 In the user-visible department, we find:
1798 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1799 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1800 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1801 the GUI pops up during the process...
1803 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1805 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1806 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1808 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1809 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1810 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1811 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1813 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1816 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1817 --------------------------------
1819 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1820 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1822 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1823 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1824 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1826 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1827 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1830 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1833 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1835 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1836 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1837 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1838 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1839 for the sake of correctness.
1841 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1842 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1844 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1845 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1847 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1849 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1851 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1853 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1854 --------------------------------
1856 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1858 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1859 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1860 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1862 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1864 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1866 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1868 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1869 has also been fixed.
1871 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1872 --------------------------------
1874 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1875 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1876 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1877 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1878 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1879 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1881 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1883 - New export to HTML feature
1885 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1887 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1888 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1889 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1891 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1892 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1893 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1895 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1896 --------------------------------------------------
1898 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1899 new features has been included:
1905 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1907 - Several language files updated.
1909 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1911 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1912 --------------------------------------------------
1914 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1916 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1919 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1921 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1923 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1924 --------------------------------------------------
1926 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1927 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1929 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1931 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1932 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1934 - Better multipart document support.
1936 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1939 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1942 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1943 --------------------------------------------------
1945 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1946 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1948 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1950 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1952 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1954 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1956 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1960 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1961 ----------------------------------------------------
1963 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1964 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1966 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1967 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1968 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1969 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1970 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1972 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1973 footnotes, and generally better output.
1975 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1976 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1977 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1978 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1979 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1981 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1982 and error message translations) for several languages.
1984 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1985 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1986 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1988 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1990 - Improved table support.
1992 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1994 - easier handling of index entries.
1996 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1997 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1998 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1999 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2002 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2003 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as