1 What's new in version 2.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
8 * Multiple bibliographies
10 * Quotation marks enhancements
11 * Updates to reference handling
12 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
14 * New supported languages
15 * New supported LaTeX commands
16 * New template for Inkscape drawings
17 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
18 * Automatic detection of file changes
19 * Citation & reference dialogs
20 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
21 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
22 * Outliner and navigation menu
23 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
25 * Code preview & highlighting
28 What's new in version 2.2.2?
29 ----------------------------
31 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
33 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
34 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
35 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
37 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
38 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
40 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
41 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
42 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
43 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
47 What's new in version 2.2.1?
48 ----------------------------
50 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
52 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
53 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
54 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
55 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
56 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
59 What's new in version 2.2.0?
60 ----------------------------
62 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
63 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
65 * HiDPI display support
67 * New text display algorithm
68 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
69 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
70 * Improved text color support
72 * Improved table context menu
73 * Reworked instant preview
74 * Enhanced source panel
75 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
76 * Enhanced language support
77 * New supported languages
78 * New supported LaTeX commands
81 * New preferences settings
85 What's new in version 2.1.5?
86 ----------------------------
88 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
89 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
91 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
92 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
93 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
96 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
97 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
98 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
99 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
102 What's new in version 2.1.4?
103 ----------------------------
105 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
107 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
108 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
109 to upgrade to this version.
112 What's new in version 2.1.3?
113 ----------------------------
115 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
117 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
118 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
119 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
122 What's new in version 2.1.2?
123 ----------------------------
125 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
127 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
128 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
129 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
130 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
131 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
132 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
135 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
136 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
137 of older beamer documents easier.
140 What's new in version 2.1.1?
141 ----------------------------
143 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
144 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
145 release announcement for the details.
147 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
148 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
149 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
150 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
151 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
152 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
154 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
155 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
156 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
158 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
159 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
160 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
161 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
164 What's new in version 2.1.0?
165 ----------------------------
167 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
168 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
170 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
171 * New supported languages
172 * Tex Fonts Additions
173 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
174 * Document class categories
175 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
176 * New supported LaTeX commands
177 * New export command-line option
179 * Layout enhancements
181 * Equation Editor "mode"
184 What's new in version 2.0.8?
185 ----------------------------
187 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
188 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
189 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
191 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
192 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
193 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
194 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
195 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
196 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
199 What's new in version 2.0.7?
200 ----------------------------
202 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
203 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
204 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
205 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
208 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
209 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
212 What's new in version 2.0.6?
213 ----------------------------
215 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
216 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
217 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
220 What's new in version 2.0.5?
221 ----------------------------
223 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
224 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
225 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
226 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
229 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
230 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
231 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
232 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
233 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
234 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
235 - Menu functions are unchanged.
238 What's new in version 2.0.4?
239 ----------------------------
241 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
242 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
243 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
244 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
245 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
246 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
249 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
250 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
251 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
252 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
253 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
255 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
256 will continue for 2.0.5.
259 What's new in version 2.0.3?
260 ----------------------------
262 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
263 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
265 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
266 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
267 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
268 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
269 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
271 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
272 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
275 What's new in version 2.0.2?
276 ----------------------------
278 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
279 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
280 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
282 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
283 below for the details.
285 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
288 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
289 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
290 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
291 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
292 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
295 What's new in version 2.0.1?
296 ----------------------------
298 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
299 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
300 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
301 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
302 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
303 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
307 What's new in version 2.0.0?
308 ----------------------------
310 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
311 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
313 * Advanced Search Facility
314 * Spell-checking on the Fly
315 * Compare Documents Feature
317 * Multilingual Thesaurus
319 * Multiple Indices Support
320 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
321 * Enhanced Instant Preview
322 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
323 * Enhanced Version Control Features
324 * Typesetting in background
327 What's new in version 1.6.10?
328 ------------------------------
329 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
330 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
331 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
332 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
333 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
337 What's new in version 1.6.9?
338 -----------------------------
340 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
341 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
342 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
343 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
346 What's new in version 1.6.8?
347 -----------------------------
349 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
350 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
351 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
352 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
355 What's new in version 1.6.7?
356 -----------------------------
358 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
359 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
360 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
361 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
365 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
366 ------------------------------
368 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
369 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
370 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
371 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
374 What's new in version 1.6.6?
375 -----------------------------
377 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
378 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
379 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
380 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
381 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
382 spelling in parallel).
385 What's new in version 1.6.5?
386 -----------------------------
388 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
389 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
390 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
391 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
392 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
395 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
396 -------------------------------
398 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
399 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
402 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
403 -------------------------------
405 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
406 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
407 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
410 What's new in version 1.6.4?
411 -------------------------------
413 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
414 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
417 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
418 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
419 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
420 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
421 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
422 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
423 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
424 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
427 What's new in version 1.6.3?
428 -------------------------------
430 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
431 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
433 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
434 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
435 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
436 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
438 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
439 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
440 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
441 compiled against Qt 4.5.
444 What's new in version 1.6.2?
445 -------------------------------
447 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
448 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
449 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
450 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
451 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
452 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
453 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
456 What's new in version 1.6.1?
457 -------------------------------
459 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
460 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
461 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
465 What's new in version 1.6.0?
466 -------------------------------
468 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
469 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
471 * Multiple Work Areas
473 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
475 * Layout combobox changes
476 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
477 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
479 * New implementation of math macros
484 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
485 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
486 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
491 * Graphics parameters groups
492 * LyX functions manual
493 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
496 What's new in version 1.5.7?
497 ----------------------------
499 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
500 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
501 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
502 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
503 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
504 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
507 What's new in version 1.5.6?
508 ----------------------------
510 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
511 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
512 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
513 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
516 What's new in version 1.5.5?
517 ----------------------------
519 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
520 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
521 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
522 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
523 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
526 What's new in version 1.5.4?
527 ----------------------------
529 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
530 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
531 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
532 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
535 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
536 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
537 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
538 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
539 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
542 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
543 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
544 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
545 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
546 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
547 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
548 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
549 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
552 What's new in version 1.5.3?
553 ----------------------------
555 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
556 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
557 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
558 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
559 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
560 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
561 version also provides some new features.
564 What's new in version 1.5.2?
565 ----------------------------
567 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
568 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
569 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
570 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
573 What's new in version 1.5.1?
574 ----------------------------
576 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
577 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
578 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
579 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
580 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
582 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
585 What's new in version 1.5.0?
586 ----------------------------
588 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
589 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
590 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
594 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
595 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
596 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
597 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
598 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
599 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
600 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
601 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
602 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
603 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
606 * Integrated CJK support
608 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
609 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
610 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
612 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
613 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
614 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
615 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
619 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
620 have full user interface support.
622 * Multiple views of the same buffer
624 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
625 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
626 parts of it synchronously.
628 * Outliner and embedded TOC
630 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
631 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
632 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
633 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
637 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
638 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
639 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
640 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
641 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
642 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
646 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
647 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
650 * New Font Selection Interface
652 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
653 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
654 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
658 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
659 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
660 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
664 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
665 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
666 glossaries and fancy notations.
670 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
672 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
674 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
675 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
676 to the math toolbars.
677 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
678 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
682 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
683 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
684 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
685 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
686 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
687 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
688 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
689 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
692 * Change tracking enhancements
694 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
695 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
697 * Converter file cache
699 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
700 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
701 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
702 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
703 is enabled by default.
705 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
708 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
710 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
712 * Unified Windows installer
714 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
715 both installers are welcome.
719 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
720 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
721 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
723 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
724 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
726 * LaTeX-package support
728 LyX provides the following new document classes:
729 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
730 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
731 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
732 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
733 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
735 * Minor user interface improvements
737 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
739 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
740 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
741 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
743 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
745 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
746 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
747 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
748 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
749 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
750 even after the selection has been cleared.
752 * Limited support for local class and layout files
754 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
755 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
756 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
757 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
758 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
759 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
760 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
764 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
765 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
766 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
767 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
768 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
769 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
770 series has been to bring this speed back.
774 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
775 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
778 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
779 ------------------------------
781 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
782 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
785 What's new in version 1.4.5?
786 ----------------------------
788 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
789 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
790 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
791 python 2.3.4 or later).
794 What's new in version 1.4.4?
795 ----------------------------
797 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
799 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
800 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
802 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
803 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
805 *) Improved documentation.
807 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
810 What's new in version 1.4.3?
811 ----------------------------
813 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
814 support. Notable new features include:
816 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
817 installation anymore.
819 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
820 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
821 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
822 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
824 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
828 What's new in version 1.4.2?
829 ----------------------------
831 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
833 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
834 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
836 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
838 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
839 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
840 be compressed on disk or not.
842 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
843 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
844 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
847 What's new in version 1.4.1?
848 ----------------------------
850 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
852 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
853 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
855 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
858 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
860 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
862 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
863 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
866 What's new in version 1.4.0?
867 ----------------------------
869 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
870 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
871 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
873 ** Improved user interface
875 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
876 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
877 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
878 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
879 classic UI) is still available, for now.
881 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
882 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
883 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
884 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
885 available: one for tables, and one for math.
887 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
888 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
893 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
894 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
895 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
898 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
900 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
901 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
902 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
903 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
907 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
908 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
909 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
910 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
916 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
917 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
918 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
920 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
921 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
922 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
924 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
926 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
927 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
932 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
933 the Insert>Note menu:
935 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
936 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
938 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
939 well, greyed-out text.
941 ** Better language and numbering on screen
943 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
945 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
946 the language of the document, which may be different from the
947 language of the menus;
948 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
949 document class specifications.
953 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
954 count of the document or of the current selection.
958 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
959 of errors popping up at compilation time.
961 ** Improved bibliography support
963 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
964 "before citation" field is supported;
965 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
966 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
968 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
969 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
970 index processor is invoked).
972 ** Improved microtypography support
974 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
976 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
977 between "e." and "g.");
978 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
979 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
980 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
981 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
982 much space between figure/table and caption.
986 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
988 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
991 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
992 edit the included figure
994 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
995 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
999 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1000 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1003 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1004 ----------------------------
1006 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1007 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1010 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1011 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1013 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1014 installer and in the handling of file names.
1016 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1019 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1020 ----------------------------
1022 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1024 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1025 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1026 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1027 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1028 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1029 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1030 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1032 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1033 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1034 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1036 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1037 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1038 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1039 considered as part of words
1043 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1044 ----------------------------
1046 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1047 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1048 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1049 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1050 case where the files are in different directories.
1051 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1053 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1054 ----------------------------
1056 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1058 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1059 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1060 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1061 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1063 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1064 * The interface and documentation localization have
1067 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1068 ----------------------------
1070 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1072 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1073 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1074 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1075 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1076 the user interface and documentation.
1078 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1079 ----------------------------
1081 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1083 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1085 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1086 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1089 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1090 ----------------------------
1092 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1093 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1094 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1095 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1096 improvements) for good measure.
1100 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1101 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1103 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1104 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1106 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1107 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1108 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1109 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1112 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1113 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1114 (documentation has been updated too)
1116 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1117 spanish translation of menus
1119 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1120 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1121 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1123 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1124 ----------------------------
1126 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1127 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1128 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1129 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1130 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1132 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1133 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1134 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1138 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1139 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1140 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1141 functionally equivalent.
1143 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1144 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1145 symbols displayed properly.
1149 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1150 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1151 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1156 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1157 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1158 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1159 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1160 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1161 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1162 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1163 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1164 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1165 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1169 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1170 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1171 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1172 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1173 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1174 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1175 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1176 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1177 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1178 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1179 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1180 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1181 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1182 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1183 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1185 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1186 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1188 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1189 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1190 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1191 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1192 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1194 ** Reading old files
1196 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1197 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1198 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1199 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1201 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1202 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1203 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1204 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1206 ** Miscellaneous changes
1208 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1209 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1210 configure your font server).
1212 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1213 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1216 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1217 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1220 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1221 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1222 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1226 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1227 ----------------------------
1229 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1230 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1231 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1232 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1236 - updated italian User Guide
1238 - updated french localization
1241 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1242 ----------------------------
1244 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1245 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1250 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1251 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1252 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1254 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1255 when dragging the mouse)
1257 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1258 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1259 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1262 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1263 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1264 who are not aware that it is needed
1266 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1267 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1269 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1270 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1272 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1274 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1276 - update sciword bindings
1278 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1279 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1281 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1285 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1286 ----------------------------
1288 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1289 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1290 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1291 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1296 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1297 when this gets released)
1299 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1300 the performance problems
1302 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1304 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1305 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1306 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1308 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1311 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1312 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1313 help entering of ERT insets)
1315 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1317 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1319 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1321 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1322 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1325 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1327 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1330 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1331 line and have this file created for you
1333 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1334 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1337 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1338 ----------------------------
1340 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1341 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1342 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1343 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1344 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1347 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1348 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1351 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1352 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1355 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1356 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1357 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1359 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1362 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1363 appear in the output.
1365 - New minipage inset
1367 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1368 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1372 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1374 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1375 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1376 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1379 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1383 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1384 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1385 process, among which:
1387 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1389 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1390 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1391 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1393 - support for many amsmath features
1394 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1395 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1396 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1397 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1400 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1402 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1404 - Improvements to the parser
1406 - Improvements to math text mode
1408 - (Better) support for nested macros
1410 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1412 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1414 - GUI support provided for many more features
1417 Other changes include:
1419 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1422 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1423 improved in the process
1425 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1426 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1427 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1429 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1432 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1433 "shelfful", or many german words
1435 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1436 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1437 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1438 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1440 - Updated documentation
1442 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1445 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1447 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1449 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1451 - Babel can be disabled
1453 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1455 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1456 ------------------------------------
1458 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1462 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1464 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1465 appears to be more suitable.
1467 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1468 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1470 - add support for dvipdfm
1472 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1473 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1475 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1478 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1480 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1483 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1485 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1488 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1489 ------------------------------------
1491 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1495 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1498 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1499 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1501 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1504 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1505 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1507 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1508 Theoretical Computer Science
1510 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1512 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1513 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1515 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1516 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1517 with the older version
1520 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1521 ------------------------------------
1523 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1527 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1529 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1530 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1531 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1533 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1534 documentation update.
1536 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1539 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1540 ------------------------------------
1542 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1546 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1547 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1549 - better support for ukrainian language
1551 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1552 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1554 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1555 line-delete-forward.
1557 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1559 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1562 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1563 --------------------------------
1565 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1566 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1567 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1569 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1570 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1571 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1572 from the older development version:
1574 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1575 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1576 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1577 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1578 have been overhauled.
1580 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1583 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1584 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1586 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1588 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1589 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1590 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1592 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1594 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1595 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1596 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1597 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1598 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1599 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1600 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1602 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1603 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1604 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1607 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1608 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1609 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1610 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1611 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1612 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1614 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1615 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1616 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1617 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1618 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1620 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1622 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1624 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1625 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1626 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1627 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1628 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1629 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1631 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1633 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1636 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1637 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1639 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1640 mentioned here for your information
1642 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1643 (this can be changed in preferences).
1645 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1650 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1651 --------------------------------
1653 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1654 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1655 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1657 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1658 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1660 User-visible changes:
1662 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1664 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1666 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1668 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1670 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1671 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1673 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1674 command-line/window:
1675 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1677 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1678 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1680 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1682 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1684 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1686 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1687 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1688 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1689 (And you probably had the error always.)
1691 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1693 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1694 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1696 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1698 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1699 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1700 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1701 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1703 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1705 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1706 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1708 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1709 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1711 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1712 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1713 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1714 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1717 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1718 --------------------------------
1720 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1721 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1722 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1725 In the user-visible department, we find:
1727 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1728 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1729 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1730 the GUI pops up during the process...
1732 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1734 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1735 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1737 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1738 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1739 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1740 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1742 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1745 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1746 --------------------------------
1748 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1749 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1751 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1752 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1753 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1755 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1756 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1759 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1762 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1764 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1765 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1766 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1767 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1768 for the sake of correctness.
1770 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1771 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1773 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1774 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1776 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1778 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1780 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1782 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1783 --------------------------------
1785 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1787 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1788 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1789 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1791 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1793 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1795 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1797 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1798 has also been fixed.
1800 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1801 --------------------------------
1803 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1804 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1805 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1806 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1807 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1808 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1810 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1812 - New export to HTML feature
1814 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1816 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1817 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1818 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1820 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1821 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1822 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1824 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1825 --------------------------------------------------
1827 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1828 new features has been included:
1834 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1836 - Several language files updated.
1838 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1840 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1841 --------------------------------------------------
1843 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1845 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1848 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1850 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1852 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1853 --------------------------------------------------
1855 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1856 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1858 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1860 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1861 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1863 - Better multipart document support.
1865 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1868 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1871 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1872 --------------------------------------------------
1874 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1875 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1877 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1879 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1881 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1883 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1885 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1889 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1890 ----------------------------------------------------
1892 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1893 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1895 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1896 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1897 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1898 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1899 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1901 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1902 footnotes, and generally better output.
1904 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1905 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1906 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1907 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1908 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1910 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1911 and error message translations) for several languages.
1913 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1914 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1915 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1917 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1919 - Improved table support.
1921 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1923 - easier handling of index entries.
1925 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1926 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1927 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1928 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1931 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1932 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as