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 1.6.7?
9 -----------------------------
11 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
12 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
13 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
14 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
18 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
19 ------------------------------
21 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
22 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
23 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
24 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
27 What's new in version 1.6.6?
28 -----------------------------
30 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
31 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
32 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
33 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
34 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
35 spelling in parallel).
38 What's new in version 1.6.5?
39 -----------------------------
41 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
42 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
43 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
44 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
45 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
48 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
49 -------------------------------
51 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
52 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
55 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
56 -------------------------------
58 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
59 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
60 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
63 What's new in version 1.6.4?
64 -------------------------------
66 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
67 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
70 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
71 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
72 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
73 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
74 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
75 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
76 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
77 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
80 What's new in version 1.6.3?
81 -------------------------------
83 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
84 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
86 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
87 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
88 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
89 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
91 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
92 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
93 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
94 compiled against Qt 4.5.
97 What's new in version 1.6.2?
98 -------------------------------
100 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
101 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
102 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
103 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
104 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
105 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
106 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
109 What's new in version 1.6.1?
110 -------------------------------
112 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
113 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
114 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
118 What's new in version 1.6.0?
119 -------------------------------
121 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
122 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
124 * Multiple Work Areas
126 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
128 * Layout combobox changes
129 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
130 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
132 * New implementation of math macros
137 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
138 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
139 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
144 * Graphics parameters groups
145 * LyX functions manual
146 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
149 What's new in version 1.5.7?
150 ----------------------------
152 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
153 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
154 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
155 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
156 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
157 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
160 What's new in version 1.5.6?
161 ----------------------------
163 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
164 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
165 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
166 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
169 What's new in version 1.5.5?
170 ----------------------------
172 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
173 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
174 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
175 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
176 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
179 What's new in version 1.5.4?
180 ----------------------------
182 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
183 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
184 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
185 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
188 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
189 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
190 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
191 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
192 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
195 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
196 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
197 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
198 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
199 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
200 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
201 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
202 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
205 What's new in version 1.5.3?
206 ----------------------------
208 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
209 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
210 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
211 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
212 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
213 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
214 version also provides some new features.
217 What's new in version 1.5.2?
218 ----------------------------
220 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
221 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
222 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
223 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
226 What's new in version 1.5.1?
227 ----------------------------
229 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
230 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
231 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
232 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
233 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
235 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
238 What's new in version 1.5.0?
239 ----------------------------
241 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
242 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
243 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
247 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
248 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
249 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
250 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
251 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
252 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
253 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
254 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
255 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
256 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
259 * Integrated CJK support
261 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
262 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
263 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
265 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
266 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
267 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
268 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
272 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
273 have full user interface support.
275 * Multiple views of the same buffer
277 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
278 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
279 parts of it synchronously.
281 * Outliner and embedded TOC
283 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
284 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
285 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
286 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
290 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
291 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
292 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
293 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
294 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
295 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
299 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
300 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
303 * New Font Selection Interface
305 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
306 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
307 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
311 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
312 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
313 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
317 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
318 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
319 glossaries and fancy notations.
323 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
325 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
327 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
328 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
329 to the math toolbars.
330 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
331 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
335 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
336 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
337 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
338 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
339 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
340 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
341 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
342 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
345 * Change tracking enhancements
347 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
348 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
350 * Converter file cache
352 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
353 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
354 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
355 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
356 is enabled by default.
358 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
361 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
363 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
365 * Unified Windows installer
367 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
368 both installers are welcome.
372 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
373 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
374 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
376 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
377 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
379 * LaTeX-package support
381 LyX provides the following new document classes:
382 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
383 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
384 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
385 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
386 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
388 * Minor user interface improvements
390 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
392 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
393 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
394 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
396 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
398 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
399 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
400 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
401 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
402 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
403 even after the selection has been cleared.
405 * Limited support for local class and layout files
407 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
408 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
409 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
410 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
411 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
412 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
413 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
417 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
418 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
419 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
420 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
421 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
422 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
423 series has been to bring this speed back.
427 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
428 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
431 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
432 ------------------------------
434 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
435 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
438 What's new in version 1.4.5?
439 ----------------------------
441 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
442 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
443 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
444 python 2.3.4 or later).
447 What's new in version 1.4.4?
448 ----------------------------
450 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
452 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
453 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
455 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
456 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
458 *) Improved documentation.
460 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
463 What's new in version 1.4.3?
464 ----------------------------
466 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
467 support. Notable new features include:
469 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
470 installation anymore.
472 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
473 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
474 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
475 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
477 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
481 What's new in version 1.4.2?
482 ----------------------------
484 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
486 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
487 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
489 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
491 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
492 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
493 be compressed on disk or not.
495 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
496 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
497 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
500 What's new in version 1.4.1?
501 ----------------------------
503 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
505 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
506 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
508 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
511 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
513 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
515 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
516 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
519 What's new in version 1.4.0?
520 ----------------------------
522 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
523 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
524 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
526 ** Improved user interface
528 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
529 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
530 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
531 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
532 classic UI) is still available, for now.
534 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
535 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
536 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
537 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
538 available: one for tables, and one for math.
540 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
541 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
546 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
547 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
548 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
551 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
553 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
554 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
555 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
556 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
560 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
561 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
562 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
563 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
569 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
570 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
571 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
573 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
574 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
575 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
577 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
579 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
580 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
585 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
586 the Insert>Note menu:
588 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
589 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
591 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
592 well, greyed-out text.
594 ** Better language and numbering on screen
596 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
598 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
599 the language of the document, which may be different from the
600 language of the menus;
601 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
602 document class specifications.
606 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
607 count of the document or of the current selection.
611 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
612 of errors popping up at compilation time.
614 ** Improved bibliography support
616 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
617 "before citation" field is supported;
618 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
619 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
621 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
622 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
623 index processor is invoked).
625 ** Improved microtypography support
627 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
629 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
630 between "e." and "g.");
631 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
632 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
633 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
634 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
635 much space between figure/table and caption.
639 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
641 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
644 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
645 edit the included figure
647 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
648 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
652 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
653 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
656 What's new in version 1.3.7?
657 ----------------------------
659 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
660 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
663 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
664 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
666 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
667 installer and in the handling of file names.
669 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
672 What's new in version 1.3.6?
673 ----------------------------
675 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
677 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
678 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
679 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
680 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
681 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
682 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
683 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
685 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
686 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
687 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
689 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
690 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
691 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
692 considered as part of words
696 What's new in version 1.3.5?
697 ----------------------------
699 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
700 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
701 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
702 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
703 case where the files are in different directories.
704 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
706 What's new in version 1.3.4?
707 ----------------------------
709 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
711 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
712 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
713 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
714 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
716 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
717 * The interface and documentation localization have
720 What's new in version 1.3.3?
721 ----------------------------
723 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
725 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
726 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
727 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
728 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
729 the user interface and documentation.
731 What's new in version 1.3.2?
732 ----------------------------
734 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
736 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
738 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
739 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
742 What's new in version 1.3.1?
743 ----------------------------
745 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
746 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
747 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
748 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
749 improvements) for good measure.
753 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
754 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
756 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
757 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
759 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
760 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
761 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
762 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
765 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
766 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
767 (documentation has been updated too)
769 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
770 spanish translation of menus
772 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
773 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
774 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
776 What's new in version 1.3.0?
777 ----------------------------
779 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
780 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
781 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
782 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
783 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
785 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
786 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
787 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
791 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
792 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
793 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
794 functionally equivalent.
796 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
797 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
798 symbols displayed properly.
802 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
803 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
804 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
809 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
810 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
811 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
812 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
813 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
814 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
815 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
816 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
817 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
818 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
822 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
823 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
824 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
825 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
826 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
827 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
828 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
829 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
830 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
831 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
832 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
833 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
834 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
835 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
836 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
838 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
839 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
841 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
842 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
843 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
844 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
845 the inset and press 'backspace'.
849 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
850 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
851 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
852 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
854 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
855 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
856 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
857 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
859 ** Miscellaneous changes
861 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
862 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
863 configure your font server).
865 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
866 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
869 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
870 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
873 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
874 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
875 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
879 What's new in version 1.2.3?
880 ----------------------------
882 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
883 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
884 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
885 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
889 - updated italian User Guide
891 - updated french localization
894 What's new in version 1.2.2?
895 ----------------------------
897 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
898 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
903 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
904 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
905 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
907 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
908 when dragging the mouse)
910 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
911 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
912 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
915 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
916 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
917 who are not aware that it is needed
919 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
920 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
922 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
923 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
925 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
927 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
929 - update sciword bindings
931 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
932 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
934 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
938 What's new in version 1.2.1?
939 ----------------------------
941 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
942 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
943 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
944 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
949 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
950 when this gets released)
952 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
953 the performance problems
955 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
957 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
958 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
959 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
961 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
964 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
965 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
966 help entering of ERT insets)
968 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
970 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
972 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
974 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
975 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
978 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
980 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
983 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
984 line and have this file created for you
986 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
987 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
990 What's new in version 1.2.0?
991 ----------------------------
993 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
994 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
995 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
996 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
997 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1000 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1001 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1004 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1005 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1008 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1009 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1010 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1012 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1015 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1016 appear in the output.
1018 - New minipage inset
1020 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1021 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1025 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1027 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1028 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1029 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1032 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1036 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1037 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1038 process, among which:
1040 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1042 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1043 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1044 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1046 - support for many amsmath features
1047 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1048 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1049 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1050 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1053 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1055 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1057 - Improvements to the parser
1059 - Improvements to math text mode
1061 - (Better) support for nested macros
1063 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1065 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1067 - GUI support provided for many more features
1070 Other changes include:
1072 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1075 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1076 improved in the process
1078 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1079 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1080 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1082 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1085 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1086 "shelfful", or many german words
1088 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1089 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1090 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1091 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1093 - Updated documentation
1095 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1098 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1100 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1102 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1104 - Babel can be disabled
1106 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1108 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1109 ------------------------------------
1111 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1115 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1117 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1118 appears to be more suitable.
1120 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1121 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1123 - add support for dvipdfm
1125 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1126 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1128 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1131 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1133 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1136 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1138 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1141 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1142 ------------------------------------
1144 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1148 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1151 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1152 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1154 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1157 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1158 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1160 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1161 Theoretical Computer Science
1163 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1165 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1166 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1168 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1169 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1170 with the older version
1173 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1174 ------------------------------------
1176 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1180 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1182 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1183 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1184 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1186 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1187 documentation update.
1189 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1192 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1193 ------------------------------------
1195 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1199 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1200 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1202 - better support for ukrainian language
1204 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1205 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1207 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1208 line-delete-forward.
1210 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1212 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1215 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1216 --------------------------------
1218 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1219 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1220 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1222 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1223 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1224 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1225 from the older development version:
1227 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1228 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1229 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1230 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1231 have been overhauled.
1233 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1236 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1237 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1239 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1241 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1242 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1243 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1245 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1247 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1248 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1249 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1250 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1251 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1252 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1253 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1255 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1256 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1257 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1260 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1261 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1262 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1263 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1264 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1265 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1267 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1268 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1269 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1270 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1271 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1273 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1275 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1277 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1278 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1279 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1280 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1281 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1282 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1284 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1286 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1289 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1290 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1292 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1293 mentioned here for your information
1295 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1296 (this can be changed in preferences).
1298 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1303 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1304 --------------------------------
1306 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1307 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1308 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1310 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1311 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1313 User-visible changes:
1315 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1317 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1319 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1321 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1323 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1324 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1326 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1327 command-line/window:
1328 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1330 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1331 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1333 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1335 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1337 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1339 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1340 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1341 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1342 (And you probably had the error always.)
1344 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1346 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1347 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1349 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1351 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1352 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1353 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1354 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1356 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1358 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1359 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1361 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1362 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1364 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1365 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1366 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1367 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1370 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1371 --------------------------------
1373 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1374 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1375 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1378 In the user-visible department, we find:
1380 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1381 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1382 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1383 the GUI pops up during the process...
1385 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1387 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1388 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1390 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1391 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1392 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1393 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1395 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1398 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1399 --------------------------------
1401 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1402 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1404 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1405 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1406 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1408 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1409 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1412 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1415 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1417 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1418 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1419 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1420 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1421 for the sake of correctness.
1423 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1424 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1426 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1427 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1429 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1431 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1433 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1435 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1436 --------------------------------
1438 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1440 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1441 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1442 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1444 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1446 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1448 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1450 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1451 has also been fixed.
1453 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1454 --------------------------------
1456 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1457 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1458 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1459 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1460 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1461 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1463 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1465 - New export to HTML feature
1467 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1469 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1470 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1471 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1473 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1474 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1475 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1477 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1478 --------------------------------------------------
1480 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1481 new features has been included:
1487 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1489 - Several language files updated.
1491 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1493 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1494 --------------------------------------------------
1496 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1498 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1501 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1503 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1505 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1506 --------------------------------------------------
1508 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1509 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1511 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1513 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1514 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1516 - Better multipart document support.
1518 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1521 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1524 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1525 --------------------------------------------------
1527 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1528 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1530 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1532 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1534 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1536 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1538 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1542 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1543 ----------------------------------------------------
1545 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1546 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1548 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1549 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1550 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1551 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1552 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1554 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1555 footnotes, and generally better output.
1557 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1558 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1559 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1560 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1561 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1563 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1564 and error message translations) for several languages.
1566 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1567 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1568 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1570 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1572 - Improved table support.
1574 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1576 - easier handling of index entries.
1578 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1579 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1580 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1581 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1584 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1585 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as