1 What's new in version 2.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
8 * Multiple bibliographies
10 * Quotation marks enhancements
11 * Updates to reference handling
12 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
14 * New supported languages
15 * New supported LaTeX commands
16 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
17 * Automatic detection of file changes
18 * Citation & reference dialogs
19 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
20 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
21 * Outliner and navigation menu
22 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
24 * Code preview & highlighting
26 * New or changed LFUNs
29 * External templates reorganization
30 * New preferences settings
38 What's new in version 2.2.2?
39 ----------------------------
41 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
43 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
44 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
45 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
47 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
48 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
50 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
51 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
52 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
53 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
57 What's new in version 2.2.1?
58 ----------------------------
60 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
62 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
63 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
64 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
65 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
66 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
69 What's new in version 2.2.0?
70 ----------------------------
72 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
73 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
75 * HiDPI display support
77 * New text display algorithm
78 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
79 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
80 * Improved text color support
82 * Improved table context menu
83 * Reworked instant preview
84 * Enhanced source panel
85 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
86 * Enhanced language support
87 * New supported languages
88 * New supported LaTeX commands
91 * New preferences settings
95 What's new in version 2.1.5?
96 ----------------------------
98 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
99 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
101 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
102 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
103 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
106 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
107 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
108 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
109 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
112 What's new in version 2.1.4?
113 ----------------------------
115 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
117 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
118 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
119 to upgrade to this version.
122 What's new in version 2.1.3?
123 ----------------------------
125 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
127 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
128 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
129 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
132 What's new in version 2.1.2?
133 ----------------------------
135 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
137 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
138 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
139 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
140 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
141 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
142 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
145 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
146 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
147 of older beamer documents easier.
150 What's new in version 2.1.1?
151 ----------------------------
153 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
154 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
155 release announcement for the details.
157 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
158 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
159 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
160 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
161 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
162 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
164 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
165 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
166 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
168 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
169 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
170 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
171 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
174 What's new in version 2.1.0?
175 ----------------------------
177 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
178 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
180 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
181 * New supported languages
182 * Tex Fonts Additions
183 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
184 * Document class categories
185 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
186 * New supported LaTeX commands
187 * New export command-line option
189 * Layout enhancements
191 * Equation Editor "mode"
194 What's new in version 2.0.8?
195 ----------------------------
197 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
198 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
199 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
201 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
202 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
203 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
204 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
205 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
206 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
209 What's new in version 2.0.7?
210 ----------------------------
212 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
213 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
214 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
215 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
218 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
219 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
222 What's new in version 2.0.6?
223 ----------------------------
225 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
226 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
227 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
230 What's new in version 2.0.5?
231 ----------------------------
233 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
234 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
235 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
236 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
239 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
240 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
241 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
242 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
243 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
244 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
245 - Menu functions are unchanged.
248 What's new in version 2.0.4?
249 ----------------------------
251 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
252 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
253 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
254 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
255 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
256 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
259 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
260 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
261 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
262 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
263 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
265 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
266 will continue for 2.0.5.
269 What's new in version 2.0.3?
270 ----------------------------
272 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
273 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
275 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
276 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
277 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
278 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
279 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
281 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
282 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
285 What's new in version 2.0.2?
286 ----------------------------
288 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
289 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
290 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
292 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
293 below for the details.
295 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
298 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
299 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
300 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
301 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
302 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
305 What's new in version 2.0.1?
306 ----------------------------
308 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
309 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
310 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
311 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
312 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
313 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
317 What's new in version 2.0.0?
318 ----------------------------
320 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
321 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
323 * Advanced Search Facility
324 * Spell-checking on the Fly
325 * Compare Documents Feature
327 * Multilingual Thesaurus
329 * Multiple Indices Support
330 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
331 * Enhanced Instant Preview
332 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
333 * Enhanced Version Control Features
334 * Typesetting in background
337 What's new in version 1.6.10?
338 ------------------------------
339 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
340 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
341 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
342 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
343 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
347 What's new in version 1.6.9?
348 -----------------------------
350 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
351 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
352 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
353 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
356 What's new in version 1.6.8?
357 -----------------------------
359 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
360 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
361 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
362 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
365 What's new in version 1.6.7?
366 -----------------------------
368 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
369 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
370 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
371 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
375 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
376 ------------------------------
378 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
379 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
380 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
381 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
384 What's new in version 1.6.6?
385 -----------------------------
387 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
388 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
389 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
390 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
391 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
392 spelling in parallel).
395 What's new in version 1.6.5?
396 -----------------------------
398 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
399 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
400 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
401 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
402 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
405 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
406 -------------------------------
408 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
409 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
412 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
413 -------------------------------
415 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
416 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
417 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
420 What's new in version 1.6.4?
421 -------------------------------
423 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
424 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
427 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
428 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
429 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
430 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
431 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
432 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
433 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
434 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
437 What's new in version 1.6.3?
438 -------------------------------
440 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
441 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
443 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
444 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
445 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
446 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
448 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
449 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
450 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
451 compiled against Qt 4.5.
454 What's new in version 1.6.2?
455 -------------------------------
457 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
458 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
459 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
460 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
461 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
462 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
463 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
466 What's new in version 1.6.1?
467 -------------------------------
469 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
470 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
471 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
475 What's new in version 1.6.0?
476 -------------------------------
478 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
479 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
481 * Multiple Work Areas
483 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
485 * Layout combobox changes
486 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
487 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
489 * New implementation of math macros
494 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
495 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
496 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
501 * Graphics parameters groups
502 * LyX functions manual
503 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
506 What's new in version 1.5.7?
507 ----------------------------
509 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
510 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
511 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
512 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
513 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
514 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
517 What's new in version 1.5.6?
518 ----------------------------
520 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
521 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
522 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
523 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
526 What's new in version 1.5.5?
527 ----------------------------
529 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
530 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
531 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
532 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
533 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
536 What's new in version 1.5.4?
537 ----------------------------
539 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
540 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
541 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
542 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
545 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
546 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
547 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
548 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
549 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
552 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
553 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
554 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
555 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
556 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
557 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
558 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
559 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
562 What's new in version 1.5.3?
563 ----------------------------
565 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
566 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
567 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
568 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
569 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
570 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
571 version also provides some new features.
574 What's new in version 1.5.2?
575 ----------------------------
577 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
578 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
579 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
580 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
583 What's new in version 1.5.1?
584 ----------------------------
586 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
587 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
588 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
589 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
590 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
592 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
595 What's new in version 1.5.0?
596 ----------------------------
598 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
599 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
600 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
604 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
605 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
606 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
607 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
608 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
609 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
610 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
611 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
612 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
613 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
616 * Integrated CJK support
618 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
619 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
620 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
622 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
623 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
624 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
625 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
629 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
630 have full user interface support.
632 * Multiple views of the same buffer
634 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
635 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
636 parts of it synchronously.
638 * Outliner and embedded TOC
640 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
641 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
642 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
643 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
647 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
648 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
649 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
650 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
651 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
652 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
656 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
657 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
660 * New Font Selection Interface
662 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
663 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
664 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
668 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
669 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
670 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
674 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
675 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
676 glossaries and fancy notations.
680 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
682 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
684 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
685 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
686 to the math toolbars.
687 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
688 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
692 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
693 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
694 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
695 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
696 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
697 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
698 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
699 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
702 * Change tracking enhancements
704 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
705 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
707 * Converter file cache
709 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
710 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
711 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
712 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
713 is enabled by default.
715 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
718 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
720 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
722 * Unified Windows installer
724 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
725 both installers are welcome.
729 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
730 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
731 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
733 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
734 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
736 * LaTeX-package support
738 LyX provides the following new document classes:
739 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
740 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
741 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
742 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
743 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
745 * Minor user interface improvements
747 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
749 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
750 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
751 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
753 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
755 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
756 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
757 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
758 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
759 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
760 even after the selection has been cleared.
762 * Limited support for local class and layout files
764 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
765 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
766 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
767 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
768 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
769 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
770 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
774 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
775 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
776 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
777 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
778 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
779 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
780 series has been to bring this speed back.
784 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
785 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
788 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
789 ------------------------------
791 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
792 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
795 What's new in version 1.4.5?
796 ----------------------------
798 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
799 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
800 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
801 python 2.3.4 or later).
804 What's new in version 1.4.4?
805 ----------------------------
807 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
809 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
810 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
812 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
813 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
815 *) Improved documentation.
817 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
820 What's new in version 1.4.3?
821 ----------------------------
823 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
824 support. Notable new features include:
826 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
827 installation anymore.
829 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
830 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
831 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
832 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
834 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
838 What's new in version 1.4.2?
839 ----------------------------
841 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
843 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
844 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
846 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
848 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
849 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
850 be compressed on disk or not.
852 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
853 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
854 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
857 What's new in version 1.4.1?
858 ----------------------------
860 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
862 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
863 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
865 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
868 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
870 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
872 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
873 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
876 What's new in version 1.4.0?
877 ----------------------------
879 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
880 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
881 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
883 ** Improved user interface
885 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
886 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
887 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
888 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
889 classic UI) is still available, for now.
891 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
892 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
893 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
894 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
895 available: one for tables, and one for math.
897 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
898 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
903 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
904 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
905 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
908 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
910 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
911 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
912 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
913 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
917 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
918 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
919 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
920 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
926 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
927 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
928 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
930 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
931 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
932 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
934 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
936 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
937 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
942 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
943 the Insert>Note menu:
945 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
946 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
948 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
949 well, greyed-out text.
951 ** Better language and numbering on screen
953 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
955 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
956 the language of the document, which may be different from the
957 language of the menus;
958 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
959 document class specifications.
963 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
964 count of the document or of the current selection.
968 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
969 of errors popping up at compilation time.
971 ** Improved bibliography support
973 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
974 "before citation" field is supported;
975 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
976 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
978 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
979 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
980 index processor is invoked).
982 ** Improved microtypography support
984 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
986 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
987 between "e." and "g.");
988 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
989 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
990 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
991 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
992 much space between figure/table and caption.
996 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
998 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1001 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1002 edit the included figure
1004 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1005 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1009 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1010 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1013 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1014 ----------------------------
1016 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1017 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1020 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1021 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1023 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1024 installer and in the handling of file names.
1026 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1029 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1030 ----------------------------
1032 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1034 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1035 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1036 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1037 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1038 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1039 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1040 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1042 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1043 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1044 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1046 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1047 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1048 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1049 considered as part of words
1053 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1054 ----------------------------
1056 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1057 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1058 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1059 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1060 case where the files are in different directories.
1061 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1063 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1064 ----------------------------
1066 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1068 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1069 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1070 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1071 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1073 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1074 * The interface and documentation localization have
1077 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1078 ----------------------------
1080 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1082 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1083 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1084 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1085 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1086 the user interface and documentation.
1088 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1089 ----------------------------
1091 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1093 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1095 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1096 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1099 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1100 ----------------------------
1102 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1103 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1104 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1105 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1106 improvements) for good measure.
1110 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1111 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1113 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1114 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1116 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1117 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1118 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1119 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1122 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1123 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1124 (documentation has been updated too)
1126 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1127 spanish translation of menus
1129 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1130 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1131 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1133 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1134 ----------------------------
1136 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1137 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1138 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1139 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1140 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1142 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1143 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1144 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1148 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1149 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1150 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1151 functionally equivalent.
1153 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1154 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1155 symbols displayed properly.
1159 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1160 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1161 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1166 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1167 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1168 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1169 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1170 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1171 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1172 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1173 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1174 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1175 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1179 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1180 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1181 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1182 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1183 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1184 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1185 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1186 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1187 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1188 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1189 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1190 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1191 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1192 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1193 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1195 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1196 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1198 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1199 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1200 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1201 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1202 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1204 ** Reading old files
1206 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1207 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1208 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1209 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1211 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1212 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1213 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1214 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1216 ** Miscellaneous changes
1218 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1219 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1220 configure your font server).
1222 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1223 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1226 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1227 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1230 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1231 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1232 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1236 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1237 ----------------------------
1239 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1240 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1241 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1242 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1246 - updated italian User Guide
1248 - updated french localization
1251 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1252 ----------------------------
1254 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1255 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1260 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1261 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1262 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1264 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1265 when dragging the mouse)
1267 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1268 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1269 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1272 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1273 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1274 who are not aware that it is needed
1276 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1277 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1279 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1280 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1282 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1284 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1286 - update sciword bindings
1288 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1289 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1291 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1295 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1296 ----------------------------
1298 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1299 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1300 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1301 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1306 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1307 when this gets released)
1309 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1310 the performance problems
1312 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1314 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1315 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1316 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1318 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1321 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1322 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1323 help entering of ERT insets)
1325 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1327 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1329 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1331 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1332 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1335 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1337 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1340 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1341 line and have this file created for you
1343 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1344 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1347 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1348 ----------------------------
1350 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1351 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1352 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1353 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1354 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1357 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1358 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1361 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1362 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1365 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1366 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1367 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1369 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1372 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1373 appear in the output.
1375 - New minipage inset
1377 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1378 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1382 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1384 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1385 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1386 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1389 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1393 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1394 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1395 process, among which:
1397 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1399 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1400 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1401 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1403 - support for many amsmath features
1404 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1405 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1406 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1407 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1410 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1412 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1414 - Improvements to the parser
1416 - Improvements to math text mode
1418 - (Better) support for nested macros
1420 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1422 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1424 - GUI support provided for many more features
1427 Other changes include:
1429 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1432 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1433 improved in the process
1435 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1436 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1437 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1439 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1442 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1443 "shelfful", or many german words
1445 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1446 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1447 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1448 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1450 - Updated documentation
1452 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1455 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1457 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1459 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1461 - Babel can be disabled
1463 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1465 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1466 ------------------------------------
1468 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1472 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1474 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1475 appears to be more suitable.
1477 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1478 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1480 - add support for dvipdfm
1482 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1483 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1485 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1488 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1490 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1493 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1495 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1498 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1499 ------------------------------------
1501 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1505 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1508 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1509 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1511 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1514 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1515 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1517 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1518 Theoretical Computer Science
1520 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1522 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1523 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1525 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1526 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1527 with the older version
1530 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1531 ------------------------------------
1533 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1537 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1539 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1540 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1541 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1543 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1544 documentation update.
1546 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1549 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1550 ------------------------------------
1552 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1556 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1557 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1559 - better support for ukrainian language
1561 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1562 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1564 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1565 line-delete-forward.
1567 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1569 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1572 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1573 --------------------------------
1575 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1576 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1577 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1579 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1580 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1581 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1582 from the older development version:
1584 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1585 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1586 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1587 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1588 have been overhauled.
1590 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1593 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1594 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1596 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1598 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1599 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1600 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1602 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1604 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1605 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1606 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1607 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1608 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1609 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1610 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1612 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1613 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1614 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1617 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1618 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1619 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1620 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1621 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1622 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1624 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1625 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1626 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1627 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1628 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1630 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1632 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1634 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1635 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1636 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1637 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1638 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1639 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1641 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1643 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1646 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1647 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1649 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1650 mentioned here for your information
1652 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1653 (this can be changed in preferences).
1655 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1660 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1661 --------------------------------
1663 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1664 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1665 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1667 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1668 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1670 User-visible changes:
1672 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1674 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1676 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1678 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1680 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1681 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1683 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1684 command-line/window:
1685 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1687 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1688 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1690 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1692 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1694 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1696 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1697 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1698 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1699 (And you probably had the error always.)
1701 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1703 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1704 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1706 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1708 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1709 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1710 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1711 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1713 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1715 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1716 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1718 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1719 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1721 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1722 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1723 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1724 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1727 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1728 --------------------------------
1730 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1731 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1732 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1735 In the user-visible department, we find:
1737 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1738 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1739 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1740 the GUI pops up during the process...
1742 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1744 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1745 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1747 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1748 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1749 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1750 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1752 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1755 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1756 --------------------------------
1758 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1759 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1761 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1762 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1763 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1765 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1766 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1769 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1772 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1774 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1775 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1776 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1777 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1778 for the sake of correctness.
1780 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1781 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1783 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1784 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1786 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1788 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1790 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1792 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1793 --------------------------------
1795 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1797 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1798 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1799 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1801 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1803 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1805 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1807 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1808 has also been fixed.
1810 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1811 --------------------------------
1813 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1814 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1815 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1816 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1817 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1818 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1820 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1822 - New export to HTML feature
1824 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1826 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1827 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1828 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1830 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1831 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1832 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1834 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1835 --------------------------------------------------
1837 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1838 new features has been included:
1844 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1846 - Several language files updated.
1848 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1850 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1851 --------------------------------------------------
1853 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1855 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1858 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1860 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1862 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1863 --------------------------------------------------
1865 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1866 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1868 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1870 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1871 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1873 - Better multipart document support.
1875 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1878 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1881 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1882 --------------------------------------------------
1884 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1885 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1887 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1889 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1891 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1893 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1895 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1899 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1900 ----------------------------------------------------
1902 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1903 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1905 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1906 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1907 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1908 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1909 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1911 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1912 footnotes, and generally better output.
1914 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1915 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1916 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1917 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1918 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1920 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1921 and error message translations) for several languages.
1923 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1924 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1925 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1927 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1929 - Improved table support.
1931 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1933 - easier handling of index entries.
1935 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1936 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1937 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1938 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1941 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1942 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as