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
8 What's new in version 1.6.5?
9 -----------------------------
11 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
12 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
13 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
14 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
15 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
18 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
19 -------------------------------
21 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
22 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
25 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
26 -------------------------------
28 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
29 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
30 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
33 What's new in version 1.6.4?
34 -------------------------------
36 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
37 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
40 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
41 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
42 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
43 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
44 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
45 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
46 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
47 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
50 What's new in version 1.6.3?
51 -------------------------------
53 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
54 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
56 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
57 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
58 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
59 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
61 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
62 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
63 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
64 compiled against Qt 4.5.
67 What's new in version 1.6.2?
68 -------------------------------
70 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
71 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
72 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
73 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
74 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
75 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
76 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
79 What's new in version 1.6.1?
80 -------------------------------
82 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
83 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
84 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
88 What's new in version 1.6.0?
89 -------------------------------
91 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
92 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
96 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
98 * Layout combobox changes
99 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
100 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
102 * New implementation of math macros
107 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
108 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
109 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
114 * Graphics parameters groups
115 * LyX functions manual
116 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
119 What's new in version 1.5.7?
120 ----------------------------
122 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
123 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
124 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
125 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
126 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
127 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
130 What's new in version 1.5.6?
131 ----------------------------
133 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
134 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
135 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
136 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
139 What's new in version 1.5.5?
140 ----------------------------
142 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
143 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
144 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
145 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
146 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
149 What's new in version 1.5.4?
150 ----------------------------
152 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
153 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
154 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
155 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
158 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
159 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
160 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
161 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
162 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
165 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
166 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
167 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
168 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
169 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
170 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
171 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
172 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
175 What's new in version 1.5.3?
176 ----------------------------
178 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
179 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
180 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
181 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
182 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
183 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
184 version also provides some new features.
187 What's new in version 1.5.2?
188 ----------------------------
190 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
191 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
192 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
193 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
196 What's new in version 1.5.1?
197 ----------------------------
199 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
200 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
201 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
202 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
203 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
205 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
208 What's new in version 1.5.0?
209 ----------------------------
211 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
212 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
213 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
217 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
218 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
219 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
220 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
221 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
222 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
223 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
224 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
225 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
226 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
229 * Integrated CJK support
231 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
232 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
233 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
235 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
236 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
237 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
238 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
242 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
243 have full user interface support.
245 * Multiple views of the same buffer
247 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
248 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
249 parts of it synchronously.
251 * Outliner and embedded TOC
253 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
254 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
255 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
256 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
260 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
261 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
262 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
263 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
264 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
265 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
269 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
270 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
273 * New Font Selection Interface
275 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
276 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
277 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
281 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
282 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
283 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
287 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
288 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
289 glossaries and fancy notations.
293 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
295 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
297 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
298 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
299 to the math toolbars.
300 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
301 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
305 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
306 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
307 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
308 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
309 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
310 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
311 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
312 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
315 * Change tracking enhancements
317 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
318 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
320 * Converter file cache
322 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
323 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
324 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
325 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
326 is enabled by default.
328 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
331 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
333 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
335 * Unified Windows installer
337 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
338 both installers are welcome.
342 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
343 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
344 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
346 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
347 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
349 * LaTeX-package support
351 LyX provides the following new document classes:
352 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
353 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
354 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
355 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
356 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
358 * Minor user interface improvements
360 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
362 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
363 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
364 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
366 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
368 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
369 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
370 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
371 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
372 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
373 even after the selection has been cleared.
375 * Limited support for local class and layout files
377 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
378 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
379 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
380 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
381 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
382 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
383 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
387 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
388 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
389 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
390 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
391 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
392 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
393 series has been to bring this speed back.
397 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
398 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
401 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
402 ------------------------------
404 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
405 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
408 What's new in version 1.4.5?
409 ----------------------------
411 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
412 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
413 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
414 python 2.3.4 or later).
417 What's new in version 1.4.4?
418 ----------------------------
420 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
422 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
423 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
425 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
426 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
428 *) Improved documentation.
430 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
433 What's new in version 1.4.3?
434 ----------------------------
436 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
437 support. Notable new features include:
439 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
440 installation anymore.
442 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
443 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
444 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
445 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
447 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
451 What's new in version 1.4.2?
452 ----------------------------
454 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
456 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
457 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
459 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
461 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
462 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
463 be compressed on disk or not.
465 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
466 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
467 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
470 What's new in version 1.4.1?
471 ----------------------------
473 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
475 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
476 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
478 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
481 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
483 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
485 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
486 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
489 What's new in version 1.4.0?
490 ----------------------------
492 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
493 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
494 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
496 ** Improved user interface
498 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
499 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
500 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
501 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
502 classic UI) is still available, for now.
504 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
505 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
506 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
507 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
508 available: one for tables, and one for math.
510 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
511 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
516 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
517 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
518 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
521 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
523 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
524 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
525 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
526 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
530 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
531 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
532 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
533 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
539 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
540 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
541 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
543 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
544 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
545 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
547 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
549 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
550 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
555 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
556 the Insert>Note menu:
558 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
559 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
561 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
562 well, greyed-out text.
564 ** Better language and numbering on screen
566 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
568 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
569 the language of the document, which may be different from the
570 language of the menus;
571 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
572 document class specifications.
576 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
577 count of the document or of the current selection.
581 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
582 of errors popping up at compilation time.
584 ** Improved bibliography support
586 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
587 "before citation" field is supported;
588 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
589 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
591 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
592 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
593 index processor is invoked).
595 ** Improved microtypography support
597 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
599 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
600 between "e." and "g.");
601 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
602 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
603 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
604 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
605 much space between figure/table and caption.
609 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
611 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
614 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
615 edit the included figure
617 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
618 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
622 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
623 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
626 What's new in version 1.3.7?
627 ----------------------------
629 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
630 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
633 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
634 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
636 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
637 installer and in the handling of file names.
639 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
642 What's new in version 1.3.6?
643 ----------------------------
645 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
647 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
648 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
649 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
650 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
651 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
652 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
653 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
655 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
656 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
657 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
659 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
660 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
661 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
662 considered as part of words
666 What's new in version 1.3.5?
667 ----------------------------
669 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
670 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
671 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
672 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
673 case where the files are in different directories.
674 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
676 What's new in version 1.3.4?
677 ----------------------------
679 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
681 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
682 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
683 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
684 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
686 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
687 * The interface and documentation localization have
690 What's new in version 1.3.3?
691 ----------------------------
693 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
695 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
696 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
697 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
698 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
699 the user interface and documentation.
701 What's new in version 1.3.2?
702 ----------------------------
704 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
706 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
708 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
709 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
712 What's new in version 1.3.1?
713 ----------------------------
715 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
716 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
717 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
718 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
719 improvements) for good measure.
723 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
724 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
726 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
727 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
729 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
730 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
731 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
732 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
735 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
736 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
737 (documentation has been updated too)
739 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
740 spanish translation of menus
742 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
743 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
744 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
746 What's new in version 1.3.0?
747 ----------------------------
749 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
750 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
751 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
752 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
753 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
755 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
756 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
757 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
761 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
762 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
763 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
764 functionally equivalent.
766 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
767 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
768 symbols displayed properly.
772 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
773 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
774 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
779 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
780 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
781 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
782 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
783 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
784 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
785 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
786 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
787 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
788 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
792 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
793 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
794 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
795 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
796 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
797 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
798 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
799 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
800 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
801 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
802 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
803 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
804 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
805 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
806 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
808 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
809 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
811 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
812 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
813 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
814 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
815 the inset and press 'backspace'.
819 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
820 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
821 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
822 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
824 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
825 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
826 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
827 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
829 ** Miscellaneous changes
831 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
832 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
833 configure your font server).
835 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
836 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
839 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
840 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
843 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
844 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
845 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
849 What's new in version 1.2.3?
850 ----------------------------
852 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
853 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
854 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
855 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
859 - updated italian User Guide
861 - updated french localization
864 What's new in version 1.2.2?
865 ----------------------------
867 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
868 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
873 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
874 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
875 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
877 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
878 when dragging the mouse)
880 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
881 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
882 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
885 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
886 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
887 who are not aware that it is needed
889 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
890 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
892 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
893 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
895 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
897 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
899 - update sciword bindings
901 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
902 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
904 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
908 What's new in version 1.2.1?
909 ----------------------------
911 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
912 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
913 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
914 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
919 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
920 when this gets released)
922 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
923 the performance problems
925 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
927 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
928 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
929 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
931 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
934 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
935 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
936 help entering of ERT insets)
938 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
940 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
942 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
944 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
945 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
948 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
950 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
953 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
954 line and have this file created for you
956 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
957 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
960 What's new in version 1.2.0?
961 ----------------------------
963 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
964 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
965 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
966 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
967 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
970 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
971 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
974 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
975 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
978 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
979 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
980 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
982 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
985 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
986 appear in the output.
990 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
991 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
995 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
997 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
998 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
999 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1002 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1006 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1007 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1008 process, among which:
1010 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1012 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1013 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1014 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1016 - support for many amsmath features
1017 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1018 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1019 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1020 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1023 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1025 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1027 - Improvements to the parser
1029 - Improvements to math text mode
1031 - (Better) support for nested macros
1033 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1035 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1037 - GUI support provided for many more features
1040 Other changes include:
1042 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1045 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1046 improved in the process
1048 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1049 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1050 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1052 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1055 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1056 "shelfful", or many german words
1058 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1059 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1060 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1061 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1063 - Updated documentation
1065 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1068 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1070 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1072 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1074 - Babel can be disabled
1076 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1078 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1079 ------------------------------------
1081 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1085 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1087 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1088 appears to be more suitable.
1090 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1091 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1093 - add support for dvipdfm
1095 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1096 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1098 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1101 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1103 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1106 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1108 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1111 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1112 ------------------------------------
1114 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1118 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1121 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1122 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1124 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1127 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1128 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1130 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1131 Theoretical Computer Science
1133 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1135 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1136 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1138 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1139 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1140 with the older version
1143 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1144 ------------------------------------
1146 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1150 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1152 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1153 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1154 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1156 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1157 documentation update.
1159 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1162 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1163 ------------------------------------
1165 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1169 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1170 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1172 - better support for ukrainian language
1174 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1175 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1177 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1178 line-delete-forward.
1180 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1182 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1185 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1186 --------------------------------
1188 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1189 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1190 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1192 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1193 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1194 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1195 from the older development version:
1197 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1198 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1199 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1200 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1201 have been overhauled.
1203 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1206 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1207 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1209 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1211 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1212 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1213 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1215 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1217 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1218 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1219 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1220 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1221 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1222 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1223 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1225 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1226 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1227 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1230 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1231 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1232 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1233 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1234 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1235 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1237 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1238 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1239 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1240 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1241 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1243 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1245 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1247 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1248 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1249 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1250 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1251 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1252 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1254 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1256 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1259 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1260 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1262 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1263 mentioned here for your information
1265 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1266 (this can be changed in preferences).
1268 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1273 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1274 --------------------------------
1276 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1277 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1278 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1280 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1281 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1283 User-visible changes:
1285 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1287 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1289 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1291 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1293 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1294 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1296 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1297 command-line/window:
1298 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1300 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1301 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1303 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1305 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1307 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1309 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1310 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1311 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1312 (And you probably had the error always.)
1314 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1316 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1317 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1319 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1321 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1322 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1323 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1324 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1326 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1328 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1329 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1331 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1332 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1334 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1335 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1336 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1337 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1340 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1341 --------------------------------
1343 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1344 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1345 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1348 In the user-visible department, we find:
1350 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1351 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1352 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1353 the GUI pops up during the process...
1355 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1357 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1358 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1360 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1361 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1362 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1363 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1365 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1368 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1369 --------------------------------
1371 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1372 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1374 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1375 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1376 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1378 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1379 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1382 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1385 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1387 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1388 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1389 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1390 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1391 for the sake of correctness.
1393 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1394 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1396 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1397 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1399 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1401 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1403 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1405 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1406 --------------------------------
1408 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1410 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1411 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1412 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1414 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1416 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1418 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1420 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1421 has also been fixed.
1423 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1424 --------------------------------
1426 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1427 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1428 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1429 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1430 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1431 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1433 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1435 - New export to HTML feature
1437 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1439 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1440 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1441 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1443 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1444 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1445 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1447 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1448 --------------------------------------------------
1450 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1451 new features has been included:
1457 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1459 - Several language files updated.
1461 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1463 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1464 --------------------------------------------------
1466 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1468 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1471 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1473 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1475 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1476 --------------------------------------------------
1478 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1479 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1481 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1483 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1484 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1486 - Better multipart document support.
1488 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1491 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1494 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1495 --------------------------------------------------
1497 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1498 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1500 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1502 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1504 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1506 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1508 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1512 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1513 ----------------------------------------------------
1515 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1516 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1518 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1519 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1520 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1521 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1522 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1524 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1525 footnotes, and generally better output.
1527 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1528 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1529 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1530 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1531 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1533 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1534 and error message translations) for several languages.
1536 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1537 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1538 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1540 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1542 - Improved table support.
1544 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1546 - easier handling of index entries.
1548 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1549 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1550 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1551 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1554 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1555 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as