1 What's new in version 2.3.4-2?
2 ------------------------------
4 This is an emergency release that fixes four bugs in 2.3.4. Only the
5 first two really warrant an emergency release, but while we're at it...
7 The first, bug #11728, caused a five-second delay when attempting
8 to save files on Windows. This was a side effect of the fix for #10091
9 and reminds us why it would be good to have more testing on Windows.
11 The second bug is discussed in this thread
12 https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg210294.html
13 and concerns a crash related to the math toolbar. This was due to an
14 uninitialize buffer_ member revealed by the fix for #11586.
16 The third, bug #11724, affects Beamer presentations and causes bad output
17 when page geometry is set in certain ways. LyX should and how does ignore
20 The last, bug #11579, is an old one, but a serious one, that prevents
21 the use of CJKUtf8 in ERT. It's a straightforward fix for a bug that is
22 pretty serious for people who encounter it.
24 All LyX users are encouraged to upgrade to 2.3.4-2.
28 What's new in version 2.3.4?
29 ----------------------------
31 LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
33 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
34 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
35 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
36 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
37 Dropbox folders and another involving missing included files.
40 What's new in version 2.3.3?
41 ----------------------------
43 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
45 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
46 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
47 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
48 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
49 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
50 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
53 What's new in version 2.3.2?
54 ----------------------------
56 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
58 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
59 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
60 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
61 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
62 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
63 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental.
66 What's new in version 2.3.1?
67 ----------------------------
69 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
71 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
72 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
73 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
75 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
76 python 2.x and python 3.x.
78 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
79 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
80 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
81 using the default keybindings).
84 What's new in version 2.3.0?
85 ----------------------------
87 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
88 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
91 * Multiple bibliographies
93 * Quotation marks enhancements
94 * Updates to reference handling
95 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
97 * New supported languages
98 * New supported LaTeX commands
99 * New template for Inkscape drawings
100 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
101 * Footnotes in tables
102 * Localization of nomenclature
103 * New translations of the LyX user interface
104 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
105 * Automatic detection of file changes
106 * Citation & reference dialogs
107 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
108 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
109 * Outliner and navigation menu
110 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
112 * Code preview & highlighting
115 What's new in version 2.2.3?
116 ----------------------------
118 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
120 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
121 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
122 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
123 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
126 What's new in version 2.2.2?
127 ----------------------------
129 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
131 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
132 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
133 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
135 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
136 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
138 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
139 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
140 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
141 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
145 What's new in version 2.2.1?
146 ----------------------------
148 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
150 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
151 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
152 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
153 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
154 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
157 What's new in version 2.2.0?
158 ----------------------------
160 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
161 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
163 * HiDPI display support
165 * New text display algorithm
166 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
167 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
168 * Improved text color support
169 * Improved box dialog
170 * Improved table context menu
171 * Reworked instant preview
172 * Enhanced source panel
173 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
174 * Enhanced language support
175 * New supported languages
176 * New supported LaTeX commands
177 * Layout enhancements
178 * Module enhancements
179 * New preferences settings
183 What's new in version 2.1.5?
184 ----------------------------
186 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
187 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
189 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
190 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
191 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
194 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
195 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
196 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
197 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
200 What's new in version 2.1.4?
201 ----------------------------
203 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
205 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
206 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
207 to upgrade to this version.
210 What's new in version 2.1.3?
211 ----------------------------
213 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
215 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
216 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
217 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
220 What's new in version 2.1.2?
221 ----------------------------
223 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
225 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
226 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
227 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
228 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
229 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
230 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
233 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
234 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
235 of older beamer documents easier.
238 What's new in version 2.1.1?
239 ----------------------------
241 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
242 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
243 release announcement for the details.
245 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
246 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
247 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
248 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
249 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
250 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
252 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
253 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
254 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
256 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
257 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
258 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
259 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
262 What's new in version 2.1.0?
263 ----------------------------
265 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
266 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
268 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
269 * New supported languages
270 * Tex Fonts Additions
271 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
272 * Document class categories
273 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
274 * New supported LaTeX commands
275 * New export command-line option
277 * Layout enhancements
279 * Equation Editor "mode"
282 What's new in version 2.0.8?
283 ----------------------------
285 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
286 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
287 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
289 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
290 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
291 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
292 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
293 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
294 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
297 What's new in version 2.0.7?
298 ----------------------------
300 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
301 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
302 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
303 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
306 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
307 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
310 What's new in version 2.0.6?
311 ----------------------------
313 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
314 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
315 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
318 What's new in version 2.0.5?
319 ----------------------------
321 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
322 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
323 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
324 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
327 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
328 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
329 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
330 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
331 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
332 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
333 - Menu functions are unchanged.
336 What's new in version 2.0.4?
337 ----------------------------
339 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
340 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
341 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
342 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
343 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
344 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
347 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
348 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
349 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
350 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
351 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
353 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
354 will continue for 2.0.5.
357 What's new in version 2.0.3?
358 ----------------------------
360 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
361 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
363 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
364 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
365 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
366 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
367 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
369 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
370 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
373 What's new in version 2.0.2?
374 ----------------------------
376 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
377 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
378 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
380 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
381 below for the details.
383 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
386 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
387 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
388 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
389 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
390 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
393 What's new in version 2.0.1?
394 ----------------------------
396 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
397 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
398 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
399 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
400 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
401 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
405 What's new in version 2.0.0?
406 ----------------------------
408 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
409 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
411 * Advanced Search Facility
412 * Spell-checking on the Fly
413 * Compare Documents Feature
415 * Multilingual Thesaurus
417 * Multiple Indices Support
418 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
419 * Enhanced Instant Preview
420 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
421 * Enhanced Version Control Features
422 * Typesetting in background
425 What's new in version 1.6.10?
426 ------------------------------
427 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
428 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
429 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
430 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
431 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
435 What's new in version 1.6.9?
436 -----------------------------
438 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
439 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
440 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
441 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
444 What's new in version 1.6.8?
445 -----------------------------
447 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
448 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
449 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
450 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
453 What's new in version 1.6.7?
454 -----------------------------
456 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
457 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
458 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
459 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
463 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
464 ------------------------------
466 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
467 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
468 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
469 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
472 What's new in version 1.6.6?
473 -----------------------------
475 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
476 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
477 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
478 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
479 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
480 spelling in parallel).
483 What's new in version 1.6.5?
484 -----------------------------
486 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
487 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
488 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
489 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
490 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
493 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
494 -------------------------------
496 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
497 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
500 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
501 -------------------------------
503 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
504 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
505 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
508 What's new in version 1.6.4?
509 -------------------------------
511 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
512 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
515 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
516 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
517 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
518 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
519 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
520 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
521 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
522 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
525 What's new in version 1.6.3?
526 -------------------------------
528 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
529 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
531 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
532 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
533 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
534 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
536 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
537 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
538 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
539 compiled against Qt 4.5.
542 What's new in version 1.6.2?
543 -------------------------------
545 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
546 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
547 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
548 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
549 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
550 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
551 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
554 What's new in version 1.6.1?
555 -------------------------------
557 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
558 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
559 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
563 What's new in version 1.6.0?
564 -------------------------------
566 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
567 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
569 * Multiple Work Areas
571 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
573 * Layout combobox changes
574 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
575 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
577 * New implementation of math macros
582 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
583 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
584 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
589 * Graphics parameters groups
590 * LyX functions manual
591 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
594 What's new in version 1.5.7?
595 ----------------------------
597 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
598 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
599 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
600 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
601 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
602 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
605 What's new in version 1.5.6?
606 ----------------------------
608 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
609 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
610 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
611 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
614 What's new in version 1.5.5?
615 ----------------------------
617 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
618 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
619 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
620 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
621 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
624 What's new in version 1.5.4?
625 ----------------------------
627 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
628 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
629 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
630 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
633 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
634 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
635 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
636 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
637 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
640 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
641 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
642 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
643 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
644 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
645 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
646 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
647 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
650 What's new in version 1.5.3?
651 ----------------------------
653 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
654 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
655 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
656 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
657 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
658 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
659 version also provides some new features.
662 What's new in version 1.5.2?
663 ----------------------------
665 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
666 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
667 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
668 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
671 What's new in version 1.5.1?
672 ----------------------------
674 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
675 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
676 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
677 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
678 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
680 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
683 What's new in version 1.5.0?
684 ----------------------------
686 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
687 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
688 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
692 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
693 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
694 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
695 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
696 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
697 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
698 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
699 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
700 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
701 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
704 * Integrated CJK support
706 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
707 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
708 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
710 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
711 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
712 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
713 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
717 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
718 have full user interface support.
720 * Multiple views of the same buffer
722 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
723 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
724 parts of it synchronously.
726 * Outliner and embedded TOC
728 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
729 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
730 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
731 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
735 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
736 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
737 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
738 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
739 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
740 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
744 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
745 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
748 * New Font Selection Interface
750 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
751 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
752 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
756 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
757 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
758 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
762 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
763 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
764 glossaries and fancy notations.
768 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
770 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
772 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
773 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
774 to the math toolbars.
775 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
776 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
780 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
781 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
782 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
783 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
784 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
785 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
786 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
787 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
790 * Change tracking enhancements
792 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
793 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
795 * Converter file cache
797 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
798 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
799 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
800 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
801 is enabled by default.
803 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
806 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
808 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
810 * Unified Windows installer
812 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
813 both installers are welcome.
817 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
818 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
819 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
821 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
822 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
824 * LaTeX-package support
826 LyX provides the following new document classes:
827 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
828 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
829 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
830 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
831 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
833 * Minor user interface improvements
835 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
837 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
838 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
839 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
841 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
843 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
844 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
845 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
846 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
847 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
848 even after the selection has been cleared.
850 * Limited support for local class and layout files
852 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
853 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
854 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
855 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
856 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
857 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
858 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
862 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
863 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
864 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
865 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
866 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
867 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
868 series has been to bring this speed back.
872 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
873 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
876 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
877 ------------------------------
879 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
880 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
883 What's new in version 1.4.5?
884 ----------------------------
886 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
887 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
888 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
889 python 2.3.4 or later).
892 What's new in version 1.4.4?
893 ----------------------------
895 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
897 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
898 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
900 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
901 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
903 *) Improved documentation.
905 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
908 What's new in version 1.4.3?
909 ----------------------------
911 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
912 support. Notable new features include:
914 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
915 installation anymore.
917 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
918 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
919 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
920 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
922 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
926 What's new in version 1.4.2?
927 ----------------------------
929 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
931 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
932 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
934 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
936 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
937 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
938 be compressed on disk or not.
940 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
941 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
942 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
945 What's new in version 1.4.1?
946 ----------------------------
948 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
950 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
951 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
953 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
956 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
958 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
960 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
961 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
964 What's new in version 1.4.0?
965 ----------------------------
967 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
968 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
969 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
971 ** Improved user interface
973 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
974 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
975 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
976 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
977 classic UI) is still available, for now.
979 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
980 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
981 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
982 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
983 available: one for tables, and one for math.
985 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
986 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
991 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
992 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
993 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
996 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
998 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
999 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1000 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1001 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1005 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1006 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1007 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1008 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1014 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1015 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1016 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1018 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1019 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1020 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1022 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1024 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1025 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1030 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1031 the Insert>Note menu:
1033 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1034 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1036 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1037 well, greyed-out text.
1039 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1041 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1043 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1044 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1045 language of the menus;
1046 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1047 document class specifications.
1051 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1052 count of the document or of the current selection.
1056 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1057 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1059 ** Improved bibliography support
1061 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1062 "before citation" field is supported;
1063 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1064 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1066 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1067 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1068 index processor is invoked).
1070 ** Improved microtypography support
1072 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1074 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1075 between "e." and "g.");
1076 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1077 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1078 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1079 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1080 much space between figure/table and caption.
1084 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1086 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1089 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1090 edit the included figure
1092 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1093 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1097 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1098 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1101 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1102 ----------------------------
1104 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1105 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1108 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1109 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1111 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1112 installer and in the handling of file names.
1114 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1117 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1118 ----------------------------
1120 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1122 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1123 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1124 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1125 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1126 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1127 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1128 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1130 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1131 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1132 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1134 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1135 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1136 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1137 considered as part of words
1141 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1142 ----------------------------
1144 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1145 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1146 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1147 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1148 case where the files are in different directories.
1149 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1151 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1152 ----------------------------
1154 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1156 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1157 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1158 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1159 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1161 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1162 * The interface and documentation localization have
1165 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1166 ----------------------------
1168 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1170 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1171 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1172 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1173 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1174 the user interface and documentation.
1176 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1177 ----------------------------
1179 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1181 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1183 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1184 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1187 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1188 ----------------------------
1190 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1191 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1192 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1193 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1194 improvements) for good measure.
1198 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1199 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1201 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1202 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1204 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1205 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1206 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1207 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1210 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1211 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1212 (documentation has been updated too)
1214 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1215 spanish translation of menus
1217 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1218 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1219 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1221 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1222 ----------------------------
1224 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1225 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1226 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1227 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1228 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1230 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1231 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1232 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1236 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1237 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1238 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1239 functionally equivalent.
1241 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1242 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1243 symbols displayed properly.
1247 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1248 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1249 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1254 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1255 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1256 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1257 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1258 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1259 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1260 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1261 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1262 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1263 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1267 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1268 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1269 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1270 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1271 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1272 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1273 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1274 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1275 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1276 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1277 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1278 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1279 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1280 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1281 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1283 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1284 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1286 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1287 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1288 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1289 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1290 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1292 ** Reading old files
1294 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1295 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1296 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1297 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1299 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1300 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1301 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1302 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1304 ** Miscellaneous changes
1306 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1307 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1308 configure your font server).
1310 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1311 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1314 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1315 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1318 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1319 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1320 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1324 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1325 ----------------------------
1327 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1328 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1329 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1330 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1334 - updated italian User Guide
1336 - updated french localization
1339 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1340 ----------------------------
1342 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1343 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1348 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1349 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1350 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1352 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1353 when dragging the mouse)
1355 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1356 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1357 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1360 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1361 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1362 who are not aware that it is needed
1364 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1365 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1367 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1368 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1370 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1372 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1374 - update sciword bindings
1376 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1377 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1379 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1383 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1384 ----------------------------
1386 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1387 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1388 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1389 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1394 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1395 when this gets released)
1397 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1398 the performance problems
1400 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1402 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1403 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1404 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1406 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1409 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1410 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1411 help entering of ERT insets)
1413 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1415 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1417 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1419 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1420 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1423 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1425 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1428 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1429 line and have this file created for you
1431 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1432 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1435 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1436 ----------------------------
1438 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1439 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1440 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1441 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1442 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1445 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1446 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1449 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1450 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1453 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1454 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1455 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1457 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1460 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1461 appear in the output.
1463 - New minipage inset
1465 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1466 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1470 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1472 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1473 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1474 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1477 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1481 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1482 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1483 process, among which:
1485 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1487 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1488 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1489 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1491 - support for many amsmath features
1492 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1493 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1494 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1495 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1498 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1500 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1502 - Improvements to the parser
1504 - Improvements to math text mode
1506 - (Better) support for nested macros
1508 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1510 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1512 - GUI support provided for many more features
1515 Other changes include:
1517 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1520 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1521 improved in the process
1523 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1524 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1525 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1527 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1530 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1531 "shelfful", or many german words
1533 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1534 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1535 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1536 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1538 - Updated documentation
1540 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1543 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1545 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1547 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1549 - Babel can be disabled
1551 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1553 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1554 ------------------------------------
1556 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1560 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1562 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1563 appears to be more suitable.
1565 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1566 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1568 - add support for dvipdfm
1570 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1571 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1573 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1576 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1578 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1581 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1583 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1586 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1587 ------------------------------------
1589 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1593 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1596 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1597 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1599 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1602 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1603 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1605 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1606 Theoretical Computer Science
1608 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1610 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1611 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1613 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1614 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1615 with the older version
1618 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1619 ------------------------------------
1621 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1625 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1627 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1628 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1629 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1631 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1632 documentation update.
1634 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1637 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1638 ------------------------------------
1640 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1644 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1645 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1647 - better support for ukrainian language
1649 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1650 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1652 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1653 line-delete-forward.
1655 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1657 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1660 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1661 --------------------------------
1663 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1664 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1665 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1667 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1668 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1669 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1670 from the older development version:
1672 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1673 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1674 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1675 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1676 have been overhauled.
1678 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1681 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1682 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1684 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1686 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1687 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1688 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1690 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1692 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1693 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1694 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1695 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1696 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1697 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1698 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1700 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1701 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1702 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1705 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1706 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1707 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1708 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1709 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1710 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1712 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1713 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1714 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1715 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1716 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1718 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1720 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1722 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1723 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1724 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1725 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1726 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1727 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1729 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1731 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1734 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1735 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1737 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1738 mentioned here for your information
1740 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1741 (this can be changed in preferences).
1743 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1748 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1749 --------------------------------
1751 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1752 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1753 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1755 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1756 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1758 User-visible changes:
1760 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1762 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1764 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1766 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1768 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1769 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1771 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1772 command-line/window:
1773 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1775 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1776 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1778 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1780 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1782 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1784 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1785 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1786 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1787 (And you probably had the error always.)
1789 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1791 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1792 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1794 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1796 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1797 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1798 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1799 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1801 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1803 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1804 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1806 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1807 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1809 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1810 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1811 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1812 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1815 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1816 --------------------------------
1818 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1819 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1820 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1823 In the user-visible department, we find:
1825 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1826 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1827 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1828 the GUI pops up during the process...
1830 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1832 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1833 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1835 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1836 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1837 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1838 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1840 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1843 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1844 --------------------------------
1846 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1847 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1849 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1850 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1851 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1853 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1854 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1857 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1860 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1862 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1863 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1864 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1865 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1866 for the sake of correctness.
1868 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1869 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1871 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1872 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1874 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1876 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1878 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1880 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1881 --------------------------------
1883 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1885 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1886 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1887 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1889 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1891 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1893 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1895 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1896 has also been fixed.
1898 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1899 --------------------------------
1901 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1902 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1903 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1904 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1905 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1906 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1908 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1910 - New export to HTML feature
1912 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1914 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1915 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1916 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1918 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1919 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1920 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1922 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1923 --------------------------------------------------
1925 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1926 new features has been included:
1932 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1934 - Several language files updated.
1936 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1938 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1939 --------------------------------------------------
1941 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1943 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1946 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1948 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1950 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1951 --------------------------------------------------
1953 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1954 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1956 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1958 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1959 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1961 - Better multipart document support.
1963 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1966 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1969 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1970 --------------------------------------------------
1972 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1973 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1975 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1977 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1979 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1981 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1983 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1987 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1988 ----------------------------------------------------
1990 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1991 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1993 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1994 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1995 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1996 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1997 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1999 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2000 footnotes, and generally better output.
2002 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2003 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2004 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2005 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2006 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2008 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2009 and error message translations) for several languages.
2011 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2012 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2013 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2015 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2017 - Improved table support.
2019 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2021 - easier handling of index entries.
2023 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2024 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2025 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2026 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2029 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2030 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as