1 What's new in version 1.5.1?
2 ----------------------------
7 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
9 - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390).
15 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
17 - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set.
18 This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1
19 earlier than anticipated.
21 - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language
24 - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some
27 - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086).
29 - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094).
33 - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096).
35 - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969).
37 - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse
40 - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only).
42 - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection
43 is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672).
45 - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected
46 text in the URL inset (bug 683).
48 - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when
49 updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).
51 - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on
52 platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076).
54 - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571).
56 - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023).
61 - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which
62 can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct.
64 - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument
65 converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also
66 checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor.
68 - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed.
71 What's new in version 1.5.0?
72 ----------------------------
74 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
75 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
76 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
80 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
81 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
82 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
83 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
84 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
85 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
86 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
87 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
88 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
89 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
92 * Integrated CJK support
94 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
95 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
96 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
98 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
99 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
100 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
101 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
105 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
106 have full user interface support.
108 * Multiple views of the same buffer
110 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
111 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
112 parts of it synchronously.
114 * Outliner and embedded TOC
116 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
117 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
118 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
119 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
123 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
124 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
125 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
126 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
127 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
128 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
132 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
133 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
136 * New Font Selection Interface
138 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
139 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
140 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
144 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
145 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
146 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
150 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
151 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
152 glossaries and fancy notations.
156 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
158 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
160 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
161 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
162 to the math toolbars.
163 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
164 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
168 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
169 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
170 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
171 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
172 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
173 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
174 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
175 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
178 * Change tracking enhancements
180 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
181 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
183 * Converter file cache
185 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
186 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
187 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
188 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
189 is enabled by default.
191 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
194 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
196 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
198 * Unified Windows installer
200 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
201 both installers are welcome.
205 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
206 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
207 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
209 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
210 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
212 * LaTeX-package support
214 LyX provides the following new document classes:
215 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
216 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
217 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
218 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
219 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
221 * Minor user interface improvements
223 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
225 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
226 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
227 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
229 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
231 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
232 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
233 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
234 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
235 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
236 even after the selection has been cleared.
238 * Limited support for local class and layout files
240 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
241 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
242 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
243 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
244 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
245 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
246 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
250 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
251 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
252 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
253 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
254 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
255 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
256 series has been to bring this speed back.
260 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
261 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
264 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
265 ----------------------------
267 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
268 We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
269 any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
270 in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
272 Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
273 and polished the graphical interface.
275 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
276 ----------------------------
278 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
279 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
280 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
281 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
283 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
284 ----------------------------
286 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
287 and added some improvements:
289 * A new inset to support code listings.
290 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
291 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
293 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
294 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
296 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
297 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
300 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
301 ----------------------------
303 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
304 added some graphical improvements:
305 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
306 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
307 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
309 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
310 the user interface have been made, such as:
312 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
313 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
314 - Support optional argument for environments
316 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
317 ----------------------------
321 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
322 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
323 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
324 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
325 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
326 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
327 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
328 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
329 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
330 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
333 * Integrated CJK support
335 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
336 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
338 * Multiple views of the same buffer
340 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
341 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
342 parts of it synchronously.
346 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
347 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
348 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
353 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
354 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
355 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
356 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
357 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
358 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
362 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
363 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
366 * New Font Selection Interface
368 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
369 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
370 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
374 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
375 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
376 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
381 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
382 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
383 glossaries and fancy notations.
387 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
391 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
392 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
393 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
394 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
395 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
396 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
397 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
398 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
401 * Change tracking enhancements
403 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
404 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
406 * Converter file cache
408 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
409 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
410 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
411 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
412 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
413 you want to use it, add the line
414 \use_converter_cache true
416 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
417 6 months. You can change that with the line
418 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
420 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
422 * Unified Windows installer
424 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
425 both installers are welcome.
429 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
430 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
431 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
432 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
433 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
434 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
435 series has been to bring this speed back.
438 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
439 ------------------------------
441 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
442 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
445 What's new in version 1.4.5?
446 ----------------------------
451 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
453 - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
459 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
461 - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
463 - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
466 - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
468 - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
471 - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
475 - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
476 last paragraph (bug 3303).
478 - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
479 math insets (bug 3358).
481 - Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
483 - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
485 - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
487 - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
489 - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
492 - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
494 - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
495 Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
497 - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
499 - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
502 - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
505 - Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
507 - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
509 - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
511 - Fix undo for special characters.
513 - Fix gui for big delimiters.
515 - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
516 delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
518 - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
520 - Fix example for docbook-article.
522 - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
524 - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
529 - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
532 - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
534 - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
536 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
538 - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
540 - Allow automake 1.10 for building.
542 - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
543 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
544 2.3.x python releases).
547 What's new in version 1.4.4?
548 ----------------------------
553 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
555 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
557 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
559 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
560 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
561 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
562 if you want to use this feature.
564 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
566 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
567 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
568 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
569 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
570 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
572 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
576 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
577 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
579 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
580 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
582 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
583 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
586 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
588 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
589 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
591 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
593 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
594 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
595 floats, notes, and boxes.
597 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
599 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
600 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
602 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
603 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
604 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
610 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
612 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
613 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
614 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
616 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
619 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
621 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
623 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
626 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
629 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
631 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
634 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
635 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
636 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
638 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
640 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
642 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
645 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
647 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
650 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
652 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
654 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
656 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
658 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
659 it cannot be omitted.
663 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
665 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
667 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
668 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
670 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
671 taller than the workarea.
673 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
674 related to large insets.
676 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
677 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
680 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
681 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
683 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
686 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
689 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
691 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
693 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
694 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
696 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
697 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
698 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
700 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
703 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
704 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
706 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
708 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
710 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
712 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
713 inset, do not open it by mistake.
715 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
716 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
718 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
720 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
722 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
724 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
726 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
729 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
731 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
733 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
735 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
737 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
739 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
741 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
743 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
744 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
746 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
748 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
750 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
752 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
754 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
757 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
758 a document. This is fixed.
760 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
761 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
762 (bug 3066) [qt only].
764 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
765 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
767 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
768 in preferences (bug 895)
770 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
773 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
775 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
777 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
781 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
783 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
786 What's new in version 1.4.3?
787 ----------------------------
791 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
792 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
794 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
795 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
798 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
800 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
802 - Some small updates to the documentation.
804 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
805 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
807 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
808 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
812 * Document Input/Output
814 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
816 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
819 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
821 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
822 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
824 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
825 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
828 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
829 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
831 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
832 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
834 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
836 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
838 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
840 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
844 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
845 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
847 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
848 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
850 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
851 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
853 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
855 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
857 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
859 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
861 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
864 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
866 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
868 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
870 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
873 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
875 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
876 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
878 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
879 if it exists (bug 2779).
881 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
882 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
884 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
885 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
887 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
889 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
891 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
893 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
895 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
896 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
898 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
899 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
901 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
903 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
905 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
907 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
909 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
910 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
912 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
913 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
915 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
917 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
918 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
920 * Build/installation:
922 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
924 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
925 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
927 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
928 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
930 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
932 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
934 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
935 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
936 package under cygwin.
938 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
939 development/cmake/README.cmake
941 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
942 project and scons or CMake.
946 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
948 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
950 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
952 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
954 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
955 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
957 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
959 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
963 What's new in version 1.4.2?
964 ----------------------------
968 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
969 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
971 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
972 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
975 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
976 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
978 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
979 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
981 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
983 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
984 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
985 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
987 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
988 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
991 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
993 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
995 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
997 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
1004 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
1006 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
1009 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
1010 an inset (bug 2526).
1012 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
1013 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
1015 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
1016 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
1018 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
1021 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
1022 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
1024 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
1027 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
1028 change tracking mode.
1030 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
1031 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
1033 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
1034 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
1036 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
1037 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
1039 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
1042 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
1045 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
1047 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
1048 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
1050 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
1052 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
1053 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
1055 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
1057 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
1059 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
1063 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
1066 - Fix undo in matrices.
1068 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
1070 * Document input/output:
1072 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
1075 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
1076 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
1078 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
1079 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
1080 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
1082 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
1084 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
1087 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
1089 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
1091 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
1093 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
1095 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
1096 pdflatex (bug 2235).
1098 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
1100 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
1104 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
1105 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
1106 has also been pythonified.
1108 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
1111 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
1112 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
1113 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
1114 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
1116 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
1117 directory on Windows.
1119 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
1120 rename the executable files.
1122 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
1123 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
1125 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
1127 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
1128 in the source package.
1130 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
1133 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
1135 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
1136 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
1139 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
1140 support via zlib is now a requirement.
1142 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
1145 What's new in version 1.4.1?
1146 ----------------------------
1150 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
1153 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
1154 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
1155 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
1157 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
1158 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
1160 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
1166 * Document input/output:
1168 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
1170 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
1172 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
1175 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
1177 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
1179 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
1181 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
1183 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
1186 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
1188 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
1190 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
1192 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
1194 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
1195 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
1196 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
1201 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
1203 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
1205 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
1207 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
1210 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
1213 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
1215 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
1217 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
1219 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
1224 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
1226 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
1228 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
1229 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
1231 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
1233 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
1235 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
1236 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
1238 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
1239 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
1241 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
1243 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
1245 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
1247 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
1248 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
1250 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
1252 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
1254 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
1256 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
1258 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
1260 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
1262 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
1264 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
1266 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
1268 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
1269 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
1271 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
1274 * Configuration/Installation:
1276 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
1277 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
1279 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
1282 What's new in version 1.4.0?
1283 ----------------------------
1285 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
1286 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
1287 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
1289 ** Improved user interface
1291 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
1292 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
1293 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
1294 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
1295 classic UI) is still available, for now.
1297 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
1298 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
1299 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
1300 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
1301 available: one for tables, and one for math.
1303 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
1304 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1309 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1310 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1311 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1314 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1316 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1317 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1318 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1319 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1323 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1324 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1325 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1326 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1332 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1333 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1334 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1336 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1337 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1338 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1340 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1342 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1343 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1348 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1349 the Insert>Note menu:
1351 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1352 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1354 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1355 well, greyed-out text.
1357 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1359 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1361 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1362 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1363 language of the menus;
1364 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1365 document class specifications.
1369 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1370 count of the document or of the current selection.
1374 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1375 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1377 ** Improved bibliography support
1379 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1380 "before citation" field is supported;
1381 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1382 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1384 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1385 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1386 index processor is invoked).
1388 ** Improved microtypography support
1390 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1392 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1393 between "e." and "g.");
1394 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1395 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1396 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1397 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1398 much space between figure/table and caption.
1402 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1404 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1407 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1408 edit the included figure
1410 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1411 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1415 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1416 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1419 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1420 ----------------------------
1422 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1423 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1426 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1427 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1429 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1430 installer and in the handling of file names.
1432 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1435 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1436 ----------------------------
1438 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1440 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1441 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1442 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1443 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1444 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1445 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1446 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1448 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1449 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1450 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1452 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1453 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1454 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1455 considered as part of words
1459 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1460 ----------------------------
1462 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1463 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1464 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1465 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1466 case where the files are in different directories.
1467 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1469 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1470 ----------------------------
1472 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1474 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1475 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1476 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1477 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1479 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1480 * The interface and documentation localization have
1483 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1484 ----------------------------
1486 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1488 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1489 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1490 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1491 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1492 the user interface and documentation.
1494 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1495 ----------------------------
1497 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1499 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1501 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1502 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1505 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1506 ----------------------------
1508 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1509 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1510 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1511 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1512 improvements) for good measure.
1516 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1517 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1519 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1520 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1522 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1523 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1524 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1525 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1528 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1529 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1530 (documentation has been updated too)
1532 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1533 spanish translation of menus
1535 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1536 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1537 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1539 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1540 ----------------------------
1542 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1543 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1544 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1545 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1546 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1548 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1549 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1550 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1554 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1555 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1556 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1557 functionally equivalent.
1559 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1560 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1561 symbols displayed properly.
1565 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1566 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1567 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1572 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1573 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1574 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1575 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1576 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1577 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1578 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1579 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1580 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1581 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1585 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1586 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1587 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1588 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1589 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1590 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1591 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1592 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1593 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1594 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1595 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1596 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1597 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1598 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1599 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1601 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1602 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1604 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1605 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1606 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1607 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1608 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1610 ** Reading old files
1612 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1613 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1614 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1615 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1617 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1618 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1619 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1620 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1622 ** Miscellaneous changes
1624 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1625 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1626 configure your font server).
1628 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1629 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1632 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1633 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1636 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1637 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1638 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1642 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1643 ----------------------------
1645 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1646 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1647 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1648 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1652 - updated italian User Guide
1654 - updated french localization
1657 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1658 ----------------------------
1660 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1661 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1666 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1667 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1668 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1670 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1671 when dragging the mouse)
1673 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1674 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1675 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1678 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1679 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1680 who are not aware that it is needed
1682 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1683 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1685 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1686 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1688 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1690 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1692 - update sciword bindings
1694 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1695 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1697 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1701 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1702 ----------------------------
1704 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1705 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1706 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1707 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1712 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1713 when this gets released)
1715 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1716 the performance problems
1718 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1720 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1721 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1722 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1724 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1727 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1728 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1729 help entering of ERT insets)
1731 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1733 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1735 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1737 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1738 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1741 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1743 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1746 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1747 line and have this file created for you
1749 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1750 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1753 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1754 ----------------------------
1756 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1757 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1758 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1759 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1760 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1763 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1764 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1767 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1768 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1771 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1772 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1773 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1775 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1778 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1779 appear in the output.
1781 - New minipage inset
1783 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1784 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1788 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1790 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1791 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1792 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1795 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1799 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1800 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1801 process, among which:
1803 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1805 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1806 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1807 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1809 - support for many amsmath features
1810 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1811 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1812 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1813 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1816 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1818 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1820 - Improvements to the parser
1822 - Improvements to math text mode
1824 - (Better) support for nested macros
1826 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1828 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1830 - GUI support provided for many more features
1833 Other changes include:
1835 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1838 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1839 improved in the process
1841 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1842 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1843 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1845 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1848 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1849 "shelfful", or many german words
1851 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1852 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1853 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1854 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1856 - Updated documentation
1858 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1861 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1863 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1865 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1867 - Babel can be disabled
1869 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1871 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1872 ------------------------------------
1874 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1878 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1880 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1881 appears to be more suitable.
1883 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1884 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1886 - add support for dvipdfm
1888 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1889 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1891 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1894 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1896 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1899 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1901 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1904 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1905 ------------------------------------
1907 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1911 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1914 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1915 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1917 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1920 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1921 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1923 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1924 Theoretical Computer Science
1926 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1928 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1929 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1931 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1932 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1933 with the older version
1936 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1937 ------------------------------------
1939 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1943 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1945 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1946 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1947 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1949 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1950 documentation update.
1952 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1955 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1956 ------------------------------------
1958 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1962 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1963 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1965 - better support for ukrainian language
1967 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1968 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1970 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1971 line-delete-forward.
1973 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1975 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1978 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1979 --------------------------------
1981 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1982 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1983 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1985 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1986 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1987 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1988 from the older development version:
1990 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1991 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1992 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1993 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1994 have been overhauled.
1996 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1999 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
2000 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
2002 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
2004 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
2005 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
2006 will give you an idea of what is happening.
2008 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
2010 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
2011 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
2012 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
2013 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
2014 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
2015 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
2016 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
2018 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
2019 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
2020 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
2023 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
2024 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
2025 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
2026 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
2027 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
2028 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
2030 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
2031 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
2032 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
2033 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
2034 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
2036 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
2038 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
2040 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
2041 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
2042 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
2043 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
2044 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
2045 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
2047 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
2049 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
2052 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
2053 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
2055 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
2056 mentioned here for your information
2058 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
2059 (this can be changed in preferences).
2061 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
2066 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
2067 --------------------------------
2069 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
2070 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
2071 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
2073 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
2074 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
2076 User-visible changes:
2078 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
2080 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
2082 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
2084 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
2086 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
2087 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
2089 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
2090 command-line/window:
2091 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
2093 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
2094 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
2096 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
2098 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
2100 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
2102 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
2103 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
2104 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
2105 (And you probably had the error always.)
2107 - Better definition for LyXList style.
2109 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
2110 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
2112 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
2114 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
2115 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
2116 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
2117 support is of course not supported in older versions.
2119 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
2121 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
2122 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
2124 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
2125 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
2127 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
2128 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
2129 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
2130 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
2133 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
2134 --------------------------------
2136 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
2137 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
2138 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
2141 In the user-visible department, we find:
2143 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
2144 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
2145 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
2146 the GUI pops up during the process...
2148 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
2150 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
2151 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
2153 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
2154 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
2155 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
2156 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
2158 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
2161 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
2162 --------------------------------
2164 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
2165 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
2167 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
2168 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
2169 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
2171 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
2172 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
2175 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
2178 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
2180 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
2181 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
2182 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
2183 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
2184 for the sake of correctness.
2186 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
2187 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
2189 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
2190 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
2192 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
2194 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
2196 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
2198 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
2199 --------------------------------
2201 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
2203 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
2204 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
2205 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
2207 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
2209 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
2211 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
2213 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
2214 has also been fixed.
2216 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
2217 --------------------------------
2219 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
2220 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
2221 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
2222 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
2223 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
2224 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
2226 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
2228 - New export to HTML feature
2230 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
2232 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
2233 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
2234 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
2236 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
2237 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
2238 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
2240 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
2241 --------------------------------------------------
2243 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
2244 new features has been included:
2250 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
2252 - Several language files updated.
2254 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
2256 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
2257 --------------------------------------------------
2259 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
2261 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
2264 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
2266 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
2268 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
2269 --------------------------------------------------
2271 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
2272 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2274 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
2276 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
2277 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
2279 - Better multipart document support.
2281 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
2284 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
2287 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
2288 --------------------------------------------------
2290 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
2291 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2293 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
2295 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
2297 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
2299 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
2301 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
2305 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
2306 ----------------------------------------------------
2308 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2309 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2311 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2312 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2313 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2314 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2315 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2317 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2318 footnotes, and generally better output.
2320 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2321 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2322 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2323 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2324 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2326 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2327 and error message translations) for several languages.
2329 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2330 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2331 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2333 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2335 - Improved table support.
2337 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2339 - easier handling of index entries.
2341 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2342 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2343 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2344 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2347 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2348 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as