1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
11 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
12 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
15 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
16 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
19 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
20 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
21 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
23 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
26 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
31 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
32 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
36 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
38 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
39 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
40 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
43 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
47 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
48 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
51 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
53 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
54 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
55 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
57 - support for many amsmath features
58 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
59 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
60 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
61 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
64 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
66 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
68 - Improvements to the parser
70 - Improvements to math text mode
72 - (Better) support for nested macros
74 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
76 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
78 - GUI support provided for many more features
81 Other changes include:
83 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
86 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
87 improved in the process
89 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
90 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
91 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
93 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
96 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
97 "shelfful", or many german words
99 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
100 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
101 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
102 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
104 - Updated documentation
106 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
109 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
111 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
113 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
115 - Babel can be disabled
117 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
119 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
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122 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
126 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
128 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
129 appears to be more suitable.
131 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
132 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
134 - add support for dvipdfm
136 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
137 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
139 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
142 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
144 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
147 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
149 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
152 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
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155 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
159 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
162 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
163 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
165 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
168 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
169 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
171 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
172 Theoretical Computer Science
174 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
176 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
177 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
179 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
180 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
181 with the older version
184 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
185 ------------------------------------
187 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
191 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
193 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
194 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
195 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
197 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
198 documentation update.
200 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
203 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
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206 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
210 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
211 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
213 - better support for ukrainian language
215 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
216 working --with-lyx-suffix.
218 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
221 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
223 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
226 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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229 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
230 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
231 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
233 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
234 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
235 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
236 from the older development version:
238 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
239 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
240 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
241 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
242 have been overhauled.
244 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
247 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
248 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
250 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
252 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
253 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
254 will give you an idea of what is happening.
256 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
258 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
259 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
260 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
261 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
262 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
263 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
264 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
266 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
267 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
268 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
271 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
272 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
273 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
274 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
275 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
276 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
278 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
279 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
280 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
281 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
282 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
284 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
286 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
288 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
289 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
290 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
291 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
292 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
293 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
295 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
297 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
300 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
301 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
303 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
304 mentioned here for your information
306 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
307 (this can be changed in preferences).
309 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
314 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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317 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
318 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
319 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
321 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
322 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
324 User-visible changes:
326 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
328 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
330 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
332 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
334 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
335 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
337 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
339 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
341 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
342 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
344 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
346 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
348 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
350 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
351 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
352 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
353 (And you probably had the error always.)
355 - Better definition for LyXList style.
357 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
358 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
360 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
362 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
363 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
364 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
365 support is of course not supported in older versions.
367 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
369 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
370 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
372 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
373 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
375 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
376 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
377 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
378 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
381 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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384 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
385 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
386 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
389 In the user-visible department, we find:
391 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
392 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
393 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
394 the GUI pops up during the process...
396 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
398 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
399 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
401 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
402 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
403 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
404 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
406 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
409 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
410 --------------------------------
412 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
413 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
415 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
416 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
417 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
419 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
420 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
423 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
426 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
428 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
429 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
430 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
431 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
432 for the sake of correctness.
434 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
435 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
437 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
438 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
440 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
442 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
444 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
446 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
447 --------------------------------
449 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
451 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
452 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
453 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
455 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
457 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
459 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
461 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
464 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
465 --------------------------------
467 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
468 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
469 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
470 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
471 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
472 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
474 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
476 - New export to HTML feature
478 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
480 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
481 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
482 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
484 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
485 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
486 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
488 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
489 --------------------------------------------------
491 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
492 new features has been included:
498 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
500 - Several language files updated.
502 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
504 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
505 --------------------------------------------------
507 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
509 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
512 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
514 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
516 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
517 --------------------------------------------------
519 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
520 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
522 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
524 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
525 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
527 - Better multipart document support.
529 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
532 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
535 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
536 --------------------------------------------------
538 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
539 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
541 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
543 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
545 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
547 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
549 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
553 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
554 ----------------------------------------------------
556 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
557 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
559 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
560 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
561 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
562 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
563 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
565 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
566 footnotes, and generally better output.
568 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
569 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
570 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
571 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
572 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
574 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
575 and error message translations) for several languages.
577 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
578 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
579 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
581 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
583 - Improved table support.
585 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
587 - easier handling of index entries.
589 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
590 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
591 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
592 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
595 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
596 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as