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 1.6.8?
21 -----------------------------
23 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
24 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
25 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
26 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
29 What's new in version 1.6.7?
30 -----------------------------
32 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
33 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
34 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
35 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
39 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
40 ------------------------------
42 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
43 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
44 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
45 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
48 What's new in version 1.6.6?
49 -----------------------------
51 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
52 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
53 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
54 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
55 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
56 spelling in parallel).
59 What's new in version 1.6.5?
60 -----------------------------
62 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
63 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
64 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
65 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
66 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
69 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
70 -------------------------------
72 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
73 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
76 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
77 -------------------------------
79 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
80 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
81 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
84 What's new in version 1.6.4?
85 -------------------------------
87 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
88 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
91 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
92 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
93 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
94 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
95 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
96 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
97 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
98 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
101 What's new in version 1.6.3?
102 -------------------------------
104 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
105 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
107 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
108 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
109 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
110 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
112 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
113 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
114 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
115 compiled against Qt 4.5.
118 What's new in version 1.6.2?
119 -------------------------------
121 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
122 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
123 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
124 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
125 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
126 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
127 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
130 What's new in version 1.6.1?
131 -------------------------------
133 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
134 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
135 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
139 What's new in version 1.6.0?
140 -------------------------------
142 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
143 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
145 * Multiple Work Areas
147 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
149 * Layout combobox changes
150 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
151 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
153 * New implementation of math macros
158 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
159 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
160 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
165 * Graphics parameters groups
166 * LyX functions manual
167 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
170 What's new in version 1.5.7?
171 ----------------------------
173 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
174 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
175 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
176 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
177 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
178 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
181 What's new in version 1.5.6?
182 ----------------------------
184 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
185 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
186 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
187 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
190 What's new in version 1.5.5?
191 ----------------------------
193 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
194 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
195 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
196 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
197 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
200 What's new in version 1.5.4?
201 ----------------------------
203 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
204 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
205 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
206 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
209 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
210 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
211 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
212 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
213 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
216 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
217 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
218 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
219 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
220 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
221 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
222 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
223 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
226 What's new in version 1.5.3?
227 ----------------------------
229 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
230 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
231 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
232 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
233 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
234 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
235 version also provides some new features.
238 What's new in version 1.5.2?
239 ----------------------------
241 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
242 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
243 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
244 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
247 What's new in version 1.5.1?
248 ----------------------------
250 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
251 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
252 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
253 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
254 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
256 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
259 What's new in version 1.5.0?
260 ----------------------------
262 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
263 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
264 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
268 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
269 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
270 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
271 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
272 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
273 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
274 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
275 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
276 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
277 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
280 * Integrated CJK support
282 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
283 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
284 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
286 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
287 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
288 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
289 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
293 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
294 have full user interface support.
296 * Multiple views of the same buffer
298 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
299 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
300 parts of it synchronously.
302 * Outliner and embedded TOC
304 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
305 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
306 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
307 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
311 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
312 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
313 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
314 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
315 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
316 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
320 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
321 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
324 * New Font Selection Interface
326 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
327 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
328 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
332 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
333 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
334 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
338 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
339 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
340 glossaries and fancy notations.
344 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
346 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
348 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
349 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
350 to the math toolbars.
351 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
352 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
356 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
357 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
358 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
359 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
360 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
361 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
362 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
363 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
366 * Change tracking enhancements
368 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
369 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
371 * Converter file cache
373 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
374 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
375 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
376 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
377 is enabled by default.
379 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
382 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
384 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
386 * Unified Windows installer
388 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
389 both installers are welcome.
393 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
394 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
395 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
397 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
398 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
400 * LaTeX-package support
402 LyX provides the following new document classes:
403 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
404 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
405 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
406 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
407 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
409 * Minor user interface improvements
411 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
413 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
414 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
415 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
417 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
419 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
420 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
421 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
422 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
423 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
424 even after the selection has been cleared.
426 * Limited support for local class and layout files
428 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
429 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
430 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
431 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
432 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
433 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
434 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
438 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
439 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
440 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
441 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
442 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
443 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
444 series has been to bring this speed back.
448 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
449 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
452 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
453 ------------------------------
455 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
456 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
459 What's new in version 1.4.5?
460 ----------------------------
462 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
463 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
464 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
465 python 2.3.4 or later).
468 What's new in version 1.4.4?
469 ----------------------------
471 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
473 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
474 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
476 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
477 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
479 *) Improved documentation.
481 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
484 What's new in version 1.4.3?
485 ----------------------------
487 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
488 support. Notable new features include:
490 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
491 installation anymore.
493 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
494 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
495 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
496 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
498 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
502 What's new in version 1.4.2?
503 ----------------------------
505 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
507 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
508 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
510 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
512 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
513 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
514 be compressed on disk or not.
516 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
517 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
518 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
521 What's new in version 1.4.1?
522 ----------------------------
524 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
526 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
527 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
529 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
532 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
534 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
536 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
537 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
540 What's new in version 1.4.0?
541 ----------------------------
543 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
544 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
545 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
547 ** Improved user interface
549 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
550 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
551 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
552 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
553 classic UI) is still available, for now.
555 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
556 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
557 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
558 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
559 available: one for tables, and one for math.
561 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
562 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
567 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
568 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
569 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
572 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
574 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
575 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
576 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
577 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
581 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
582 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
583 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
584 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
590 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
591 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
592 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
594 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
595 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
596 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
598 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
600 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
601 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
606 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
607 the Insert>Note menu:
609 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
610 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
612 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
613 well, greyed-out text.
615 ** Better language and numbering on screen
617 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
619 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
620 the language of the document, which may be different from the
621 language of the menus;
622 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
623 document class specifications.
627 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
628 count of the document or of the current selection.
632 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
633 of errors popping up at compilation time.
635 ** Improved bibliography support
637 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
638 "before citation" field is supported;
639 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
640 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
642 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
643 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
644 index processor is invoked).
646 ** Improved microtypography support
648 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
650 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
651 between "e." and "g.");
652 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
653 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
654 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
655 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
656 much space between figure/table and caption.
660 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
662 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
665 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
666 edit the included figure
668 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
669 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
673 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
674 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
677 What's new in version 1.3.7?
678 ----------------------------
680 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
681 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
684 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
685 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
687 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
688 installer and in the handling of file names.
690 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
693 What's new in version 1.3.6?
694 ----------------------------
696 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
698 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
699 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
700 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
701 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
702 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
703 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
704 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
706 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
707 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
708 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
710 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
711 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
712 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
713 considered as part of words
717 What's new in version 1.3.5?
718 ----------------------------
720 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
721 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
722 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
723 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
724 case where the files are in different directories.
725 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
727 What's new in version 1.3.4?
728 ----------------------------
730 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
732 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
733 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
734 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
735 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
737 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
738 * The interface and documentation localization have
741 What's new in version 1.3.3?
742 ----------------------------
744 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
746 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
747 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
748 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
749 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
750 the user interface and documentation.
752 What's new in version 1.3.2?
753 ----------------------------
755 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
757 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
759 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
760 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
763 What's new in version 1.3.1?
764 ----------------------------
766 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
767 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
768 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
769 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
770 improvements) for good measure.
774 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
775 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
777 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
778 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
780 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
781 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
782 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
783 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
786 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
787 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
788 (documentation has been updated too)
790 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
791 spanish translation of menus
793 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
794 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
795 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
797 What's new in version 1.3.0?
798 ----------------------------
800 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
801 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
802 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
803 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
804 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
806 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
807 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
808 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
812 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
813 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
814 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
815 functionally equivalent.
817 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
818 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
819 symbols displayed properly.
823 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
824 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
825 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
830 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
831 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
832 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
833 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
834 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
835 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
836 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
837 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
838 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
839 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
843 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
844 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
845 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
846 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
847 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
848 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
849 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
850 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
851 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
852 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
853 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
854 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
855 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
856 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
857 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
859 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
860 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
862 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
863 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
864 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
865 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
866 the inset and press 'backspace'.
870 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
871 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
872 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
873 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
875 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
876 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
877 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
878 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
880 ** Miscellaneous changes
882 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
883 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
884 configure your font server).
886 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
887 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
890 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
891 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
894 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
895 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
896 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
900 What's new in version 1.2.3?
901 ----------------------------
903 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
904 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
905 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
906 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
910 - updated italian User Guide
912 - updated french localization
915 What's new in version 1.2.2?
916 ----------------------------
918 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
919 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
924 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
925 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
926 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
928 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
929 when dragging the mouse)
931 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
932 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
933 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
936 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
937 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
938 who are not aware that it is needed
940 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
941 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
943 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
944 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
946 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
948 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
950 - update sciword bindings
952 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
953 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
955 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
959 What's new in version 1.2.1?
960 ----------------------------
962 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
963 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
964 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
965 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
970 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
971 when this gets released)
973 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
974 the performance problems
976 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
978 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
979 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
980 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
982 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
985 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
986 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
987 help entering of ERT insets)
989 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
991 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
993 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
995 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
996 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
999 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1001 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1004 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1005 line and have this file created for you
1007 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1008 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1011 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1012 ----------------------------
1014 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1015 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1016 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1017 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1018 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1021 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1022 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1025 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1026 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1029 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1030 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1031 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1033 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1036 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1037 appear in the output.
1039 - New minipage inset
1041 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1042 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1046 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1048 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1049 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1050 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1053 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1057 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1058 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1059 process, among which:
1061 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1063 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1064 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1065 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1067 - support for many amsmath features
1068 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1069 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1070 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1071 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1074 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1076 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1078 - Improvements to the parser
1080 - Improvements to math text mode
1082 - (Better) support for nested macros
1084 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1086 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1088 - GUI support provided for many more features
1091 Other changes include:
1093 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1096 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1097 improved in the process
1099 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1100 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1101 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1103 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1106 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1107 "shelfful", or many german words
1109 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1110 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1111 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1112 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1114 - Updated documentation
1116 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1119 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1121 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1123 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1125 - Babel can be disabled
1127 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1129 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1130 ------------------------------------
1132 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1136 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1138 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1139 appears to be more suitable.
1141 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1142 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1144 - add support for dvipdfm
1146 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1147 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1149 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1152 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1154 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1157 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1159 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1162 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1163 ------------------------------------
1165 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1169 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1172 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1173 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1175 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1178 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1179 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1181 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1182 Theoretical Computer Science
1184 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1186 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1187 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1189 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1190 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1191 with the older version
1194 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1195 ------------------------------------
1197 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1201 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1203 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1204 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1205 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1207 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1208 documentation update.
1210 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1213 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1214 ------------------------------------
1216 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1220 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1221 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1223 - better support for ukrainian language
1225 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1226 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1228 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1229 line-delete-forward.
1231 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1233 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1236 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1237 --------------------------------
1239 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1240 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1241 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1243 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1244 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1245 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1246 from the older development version:
1248 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1249 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1250 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1251 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1252 have been overhauled.
1254 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1257 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1258 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1260 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1262 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1263 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1264 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1266 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1268 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1269 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1270 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1271 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1272 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1273 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1274 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1276 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1277 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1278 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1281 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1282 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1283 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1284 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1285 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1286 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1288 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1289 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1290 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1291 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1292 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1294 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1296 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1298 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1299 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1300 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1301 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1302 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1303 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1305 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1307 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1310 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1311 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1313 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1314 mentioned here for your information
1316 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1317 (this can be changed in preferences).
1319 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1324 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1325 --------------------------------
1327 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1328 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1329 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1331 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1332 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1334 User-visible changes:
1336 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1338 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1340 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1342 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1344 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1345 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1347 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1348 command-line/window:
1349 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1351 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1352 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1354 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1356 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1358 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1360 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1361 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1362 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1363 (And you probably had the error always.)
1365 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1367 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1368 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1370 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1372 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1373 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1374 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1375 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1377 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1379 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1380 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1382 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1383 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1385 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1386 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1387 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1388 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1391 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1392 --------------------------------
1394 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1395 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1396 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1399 In the user-visible department, we find:
1401 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1402 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1403 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1404 the GUI pops up during the process...
1406 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1408 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1409 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1411 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1412 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1413 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1414 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1416 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1419 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1420 --------------------------------
1422 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1423 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1425 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1426 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1427 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1429 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1430 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1433 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1436 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1438 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1439 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1440 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1441 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1442 for the sake of correctness.
1444 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1445 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1447 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1448 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1450 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1452 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1454 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1456 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1457 --------------------------------
1459 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1461 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1462 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1463 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1465 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1467 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1469 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1471 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1472 has also been fixed.
1474 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1475 --------------------------------
1477 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1478 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1479 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1480 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1481 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1482 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1484 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1486 - New export to HTML feature
1488 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1490 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1491 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1492 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1494 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1495 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1496 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1498 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1499 --------------------------------------------------
1501 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1502 new features has been included:
1508 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1510 - Several language files updated.
1512 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1514 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1515 --------------------------------------------------
1517 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1519 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1522 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1524 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1526 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1527 --------------------------------------------------
1529 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1530 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1532 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1534 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1535 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1537 - Better multipart document support.
1539 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1542 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1545 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1546 --------------------------------------------------
1548 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1549 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1551 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1553 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1555 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1557 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1559 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1563 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1564 ----------------------------------------------------
1566 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1567 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1569 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1570 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1571 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1572 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1573 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1575 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1576 footnotes, and generally better output.
1578 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1579 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1580 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1581 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1582 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1584 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1585 and error message translations) for several languages.
1587 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1588 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1589 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1591 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1593 - Improved table support.
1595 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1597 - easier handling of index entries.
1599 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1600 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1601 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1602 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1605 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1606 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as