1 What's new in version 2.0.0?
2 -------------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
7 * Advanced Search Facility
8 * Spell-checking on the Fly
9 * Compare Documents Feature
11 * Multilingual Thesaurus
13 * Multiple Indices Support
14 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
15 * Enhanced Instant Preview
16 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
17 * Enhanced Version Control Features
20 What's new in version 1.6.9?
21 -----------------------------
23 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
24 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
25 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
26 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
29 What's new in version 1.6.8?
30 -----------------------------
32 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
33 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
34 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
35 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
38 What's new in version 1.6.7?
39 -----------------------------
41 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
42 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
43 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
44 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
48 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
49 ------------------------------
51 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
52 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
53 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
54 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
57 What's new in version 1.6.6?
58 -----------------------------
60 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
61 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
62 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
63 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
64 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
65 spelling in parallel).
68 What's new in version 1.6.5?
69 -----------------------------
71 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
72 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
73 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
74 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
75 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
78 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
79 -------------------------------
81 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
82 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
85 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
86 -------------------------------
88 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
89 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
90 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
93 What's new in version 1.6.4?
94 -------------------------------
96 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
97 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
100 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
101 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
102 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
103 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
104 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
105 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
106 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
107 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
110 What's new in version 1.6.3?
111 -------------------------------
113 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
114 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
116 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
117 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
118 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
119 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
121 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
122 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
123 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
124 compiled against Qt 4.5.
127 What's new in version 1.6.2?
128 -------------------------------
130 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
131 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
132 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
133 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
134 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
135 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
136 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
139 What's new in version 1.6.1?
140 -------------------------------
142 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
143 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
144 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
148 What's new in version 1.6.0?
149 -------------------------------
151 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
152 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
154 * Multiple Work Areas
156 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
158 * Layout combobox changes
159 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
160 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
162 * New implementation of math macros
167 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
168 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
169 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
174 * Graphics parameters groups
175 * LyX functions manual
176 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
179 What's new in version 1.5.7?
180 ----------------------------
182 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
183 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
184 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
185 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
186 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
187 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
190 What's new in version 1.5.6?
191 ----------------------------
193 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
194 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
195 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
196 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
199 What's new in version 1.5.5?
200 ----------------------------
202 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
203 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
204 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
205 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
206 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
209 What's new in version 1.5.4?
210 ----------------------------
212 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
213 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
214 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
215 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
218 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
219 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
220 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
221 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
222 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
225 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
226 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
227 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
228 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
229 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
230 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
231 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
232 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
235 What's new in version 1.5.3?
236 ----------------------------
238 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
239 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
240 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
241 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
242 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
243 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
244 version also provides some new features.
247 What's new in version 1.5.2?
248 ----------------------------
250 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
251 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
252 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
253 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
256 What's new in version 1.5.1?
257 ----------------------------
259 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
260 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
261 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
262 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
263 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
265 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
268 What's new in version 1.5.0?
269 ----------------------------
271 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
272 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
273 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
277 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
278 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
279 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
280 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
281 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
282 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
283 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
284 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
285 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
286 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
289 * Integrated CJK support
291 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
292 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
293 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
295 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
296 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
297 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
298 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
302 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
303 have full user interface support.
305 * Multiple views of the same buffer
307 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
308 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
309 parts of it synchronously.
311 * Outliner and embedded TOC
313 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
314 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
315 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
316 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
320 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
321 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
322 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
323 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
324 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
325 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
329 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
330 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
333 * New Font Selection Interface
335 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
336 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
337 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
341 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
342 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
343 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
347 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
348 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
349 glossaries and fancy notations.
353 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
355 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
357 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
358 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
359 to the math toolbars.
360 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
361 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
365 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
366 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
367 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
368 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
369 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
370 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
371 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
372 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
375 * Change tracking enhancements
377 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
378 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
380 * Converter file cache
382 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
383 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
384 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
385 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
386 is enabled by default.
388 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
391 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
393 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
395 * Unified Windows installer
397 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
398 both installers are welcome.
402 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
403 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
404 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
406 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
407 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
409 * LaTeX-package support
411 LyX provides the following new document classes:
412 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
413 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
414 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
415 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
416 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
418 * Minor user interface improvements
420 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
422 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
423 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
424 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
426 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
428 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
429 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
430 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
431 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
432 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
433 even after the selection has been cleared.
435 * Limited support for local class and layout files
437 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
438 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
439 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
440 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
441 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
442 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
443 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
447 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
448 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
449 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
450 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
451 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
452 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
453 series has been to bring this speed back.
457 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
458 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
461 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
462 ------------------------------
464 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
465 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
468 What's new in version 1.4.5?
469 ----------------------------
471 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
472 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
473 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
474 python 2.3.4 or later).
477 What's new in version 1.4.4?
478 ----------------------------
480 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
482 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
483 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
485 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
486 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
488 *) Improved documentation.
490 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
493 What's new in version 1.4.3?
494 ----------------------------
496 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
497 support. Notable new features include:
499 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
500 installation anymore.
502 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
503 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
504 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
505 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
507 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
511 What's new in version 1.4.2?
512 ----------------------------
514 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
516 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
517 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
519 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
521 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
522 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
523 be compressed on disk or not.
525 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
526 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
527 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
530 What's new in version 1.4.1?
531 ----------------------------
533 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
535 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
536 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
538 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
541 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
543 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
545 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
546 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
549 What's new in version 1.4.0?
550 ----------------------------
552 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
553 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
554 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
556 ** Improved user interface
558 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
559 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
560 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
561 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
562 classic UI) is still available, for now.
564 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
565 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
566 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
567 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
568 available: one for tables, and one for math.
570 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
571 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
576 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
577 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
578 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
581 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
583 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
584 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
585 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
586 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
590 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
591 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
592 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
593 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
599 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
600 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
601 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
603 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
604 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
605 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
607 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
609 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
610 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
615 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
616 the Insert>Note menu:
618 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
619 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
621 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
622 well, greyed-out text.
624 ** Better language and numbering on screen
626 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
628 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
629 the language of the document, which may be different from the
630 language of the menus;
631 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
632 document class specifications.
636 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
637 count of the document or of the current selection.
641 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
642 of errors popping up at compilation time.
644 ** Improved bibliography support
646 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
647 "before citation" field is supported;
648 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
649 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
651 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
652 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
653 index processor is invoked).
655 ** Improved microtypography support
657 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
659 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
660 between "e." and "g.");
661 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
662 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
663 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
664 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
665 much space between figure/table and caption.
669 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
671 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
674 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
675 edit the included figure
677 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
678 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
682 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
683 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
686 What's new in version 1.3.7?
687 ----------------------------
689 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
690 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
693 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
694 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
696 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
697 installer and in the handling of file names.
699 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
702 What's new in version 1.3.6?
703 ----------------------------
705 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
707 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
708 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
709 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
710 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
711 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
712 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
713 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
715 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
716 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
717 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
719 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
720 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
721 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
722 considered as part of words
726 What's new in version 1.3.5?
727 ----------------------------
729 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
730 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
731 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
732 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
733 case where the files are in different directories.
734 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
736 What's new in version 1.3.4?
737 ----------------------------
739 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
741 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
742 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
743 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
744 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
746 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
747 * The interface and documentation localization have
750 What's new in version 1.3.3?
751 ----------------------------
753 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
755 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
756 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
757 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
758 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
759 the user interface and documentation.
761 What's new in version 1.3.2?
762 ----------------------------
764 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
766 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
768 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
769 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
772 What's new in version 1.3.1?
773 ----------------------------
775 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
776 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
777 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
778 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
779 improvements) for good measure.
783 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
784 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
786 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
787 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
789 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
790 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
791 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
792 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
795 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
796 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
797 (documentation has been updated too)
799 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
800 spanish translation of menus
802 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
803 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
804 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
806 What's new in version 1.3.0?
807 ----------------------------
809 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
810 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
811 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
812 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
813 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
815 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
816 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
817 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
821 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
822 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
823 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
824 functionally equivalent.
826 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
827 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
828 symbols displayed properly.
832 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
833 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
834 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
839 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
840 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
841 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
842 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
843 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
844 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
845 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
846 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
847 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
848 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
852 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
853 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
854 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
855 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
856 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
857 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
858 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
859 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
860 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
861 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
862 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
863 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
864 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
865 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
866 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
868 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
869 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
871 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
872 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
873 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
874 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
875 the inset and press 'backspace'.
879 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
880 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
881 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
882 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
884 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
885 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
886 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
887 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
889 ** Miscellaneous changes
891 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
892 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
893 configure your font server).
895 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
896 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
899 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
900 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
903 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
904 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
905 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
909 What's new in version 1.2.3?
910 ----------------------------
912 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
913 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
914 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
915 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
919 - updated italian User Guide
921 - updated french localization
924 What's new in version 1.2.2?
925 ----------------------------
927 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
928 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
933 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
934 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
935 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
937 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
938 when dragging the mouse)
940 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
941 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
942 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
945 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
946 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
947 who are not aware that it is needed
949 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
950 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
952 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
953 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
955 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
957 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
959 - update sciword bindings
961 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
962 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
964 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
968 What's new in version 1.2.1?
969 ----------------------------
971 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
972 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
973 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
974 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
979 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
980 when this gets released)
982 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
983 the performance problems
985 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
987 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
988 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
989 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
991 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
994 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
995 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
996 help entering of ERT insets)
998 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1000 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1002 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1004 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1005 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1008 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1010 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1013 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1014 line and have this file created for you
1016 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1017 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1020 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1021 ----------------------------
1023 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1024 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1025 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1026 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1027 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1030 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1031 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1034 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1035 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1038 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1039 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1040 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1042 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1045 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1046 appear in the output.
1048 - New minipage inset
1050 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1051 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1055 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1057 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1058 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1059 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1062 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1066 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1067 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1068 process, among which:
1070 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1072 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1073 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1074 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1076 - support for many amsmath features
1077 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1078 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1079 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1080 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1083 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1085 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1087 - Improvements to the parser
1089 - Improvements to math text mode
1091 - (Better) support for nested macros
1093 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1095 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1097 - GUI support provided for many more features
1100 Other changes include:
1102 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1105 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1106 improved in the process
1108 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1109 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1110 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1112 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1115 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1116 "shelfful", or many german words
1118 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1119 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1120 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1121 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1123 - Updated documentation
1125 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1128 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1130 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1132 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1134 - Babel can be disabled
1136 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1138 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1139 ------------------------------------
1141 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1145 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1147 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1148 appears to be more suitable.
1150 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1151 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1153 - add support for dvipdfm
1155 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1156 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1158 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1161 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1163 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1166 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1168 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1171 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1172 ------------------------------------
1174 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1178 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1181 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1182 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1184 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1187 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1188 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1190 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1191 Theoretical Computer Science
1193 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1195 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1196 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1198 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1199 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1200 with the older version
1203 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1204 ------------------------------------
1206 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1210 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1212 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1213 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1214 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1216 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1217 documentation update.
1219 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1222 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1223 ------------------------------------
1225 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1229 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1230 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1232 - better support for ukrainian language
1234 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1235 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1237 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1238 line-delete-forward.
1240 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1242 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1245 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1246 --------------------------------
1248 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1249 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1250 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1252 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1253 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1254 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1255 from the older development version:
1257 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1258 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1259 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1260 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1261 have been overhauled.
1263 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1266 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1267 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1269 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1271 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1272 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1273 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1275 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1277 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1278 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1279 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1280 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1281 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1282 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1283 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1285 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1286 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1287 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1290 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1291 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1292 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1293 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1294 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1295 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1297 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1298 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1299 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1300 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1301 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1303 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1305 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1307 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1308 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1309 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1310 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1311 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1312 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1314 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1316 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1319 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1320 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1322 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1323 mentioned here for your information
1325 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1326 (this can be changed in preferences).
1328 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1333 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1334 --------------------------------
1336 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1337 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1338 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1340 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1341 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1343 User-visible changes:
1345 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1347 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1349 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1351 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1353 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1354 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1356 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1357 command-line/window:
1358 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1360 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1361 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1363 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1365 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1367 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1369 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1370 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1371 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1372 (And you probably had the error always.)
1374 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1376 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1377 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1379 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1381 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1382 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1383 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1384 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1386 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1388 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1389 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1391 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1392 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1394 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1395 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1396 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1397 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1400 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1401 --------------------------------
1403 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1404 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1405 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1408 In the user-visible department, we find:
1410 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1411 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1412 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1413 the GUI pops up during the process...
1415 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1417 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1418 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1420 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1421 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1422 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1423 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1425 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1428 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1429 --------------------------------
1431 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1432 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1434 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1435 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1436 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1438 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1439 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1442 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1445 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1447 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1448 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1449 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1450 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1451 for the sake of correctness.
1453 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1454 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1456 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1457 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1459 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1461 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1463 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1465 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1466 --------------------------------
1468 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1470 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1471 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1472 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1474 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1476 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1478 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1480 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1481 has also been fixed.
1483 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1484 --------------------------------
1486 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1487 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1488 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1489 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1490 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1491 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1493 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1495 - New export to HTML feature
1497 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1499 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1500 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1501 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1503 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1504 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1505 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1507 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1508 --------------------------------------------------
1510 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1511 new features has been included:
1517 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1519 - Several language files updated.
1521 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1523 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1524 --------------------------------------------------
1526 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1528 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1531 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1533 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1535 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1536 --------------------------------------------------
1538 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1539 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1541 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1543 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1544 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1546 - Better multipart document support.
1548 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1551 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1554 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1555 --------------------------------------------------
1557 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1558 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1560 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1562 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1564 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1566 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1568 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1572 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1573 ----------------------------------------------------
1575 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1576 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1578 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1579 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1580 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1581 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1582 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1584 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1585 footnotes, and generally better output.
1587 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1588 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1589 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1590 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1591 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1593 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1594 and error message translations) for several languages.
1596 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1597 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1598 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1600 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1602 - Improved table support.
1604 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1606 - easier handling of index entries.
1608 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1609 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1610 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1611 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1614 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1615 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as