1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 begin to really 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 Switch to the so-called 'new' insets:
13 - floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets
15 - most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved
16 (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...)
18 - TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is
21 - new graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
22 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default).
26 - notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs
28 - new ligature break special character, useful for words like
29 shelfful, or many german words
31 The math editor has been mostly rewritten (and thus may have many new
32 bugs :). Most of the changes should not be visible for the user,
35 - improvements to the parser
37 - improvements to math text mode
39 - (better) support for nested macros
41 - (better) support for \limits/\nolimits
43 - enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
45 - enable switching between equation/eqnarray and align environment
48 Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework:
52 - the kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
53 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
56 Other changes include:
58 - support for natbib for bibliography citations
60 - support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files
62 - updated documentation
66 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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69 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
70 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
71 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
73 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
74 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
75 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
76 from the older development version:
78 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
79 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
80 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
81 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
84 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
87 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
88 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
90 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
92 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
93 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
94 will give you an idea of what is happening.
96 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
98 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
99 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
100 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
101 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
102 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
103 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
104 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
106 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
107 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
108 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
111 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
112 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
113 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
114 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
115 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
116 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
118 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
119 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
120 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
121 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
122 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
124 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
126 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
128 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
129 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
130 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
131 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
132 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
133 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
135 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
137 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
140 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
141 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
143 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
144 mentioned here for your information
146 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
147 (this can be changed in preferences).
149 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
154 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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157 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
158 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
159 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
161 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
162 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
164 User-visible changes:
166 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
168 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
170 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
172 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
174 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
175 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
177 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
179 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
181 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
182 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
184 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
186 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
188 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
190 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
191 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
192 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
193 (And you probably had the error always.)
195 - Better definition for LyXList style.
197 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
198 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
200 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
202 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
203 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
204 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
205 support is of course not supported in older versions.
207 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
209 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
210 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
212 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
213 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
215 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
216 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
217 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
218 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
221 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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224 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
225 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
226 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
229 In the user-visible department, we find:
231 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
232 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
233 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
234 the GUI pops up during the process...
236 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
238 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
239 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
241 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
242 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
243 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
244 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
246 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
249 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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252 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
253 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
255 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
256 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
257 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
259 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
260 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
263 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
266 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
268 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
269 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
270 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
271 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
272 for the sake of correctness.
274 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
275 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
277 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
278 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
280 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
282 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
284 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
286 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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289 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
291 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
292 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
293 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
295 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
297 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
299 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
301 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
304 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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307 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
308 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
309 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
310 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
311 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
312 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
314 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
316 - New export to HTML feature
318 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
320 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
321 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
322 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
324 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
325 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
326 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
328 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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331 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
332 new features has been included:
338 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
340 - Several language files updated.
342 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
344 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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347 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
349 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
352 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
354 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
356 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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359 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
360 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
362 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
364 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
365 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
367 - Better multipart document support.
369 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
372 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
375 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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378 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
379 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
381 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
383 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
385 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
387 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
389 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
393 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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396 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
397 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
399 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
400 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
401 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
402 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
403 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
405 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
406 footnotes, and generally better output.
408 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
409 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
410 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
411 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
412 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
414 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
415 and error message translations) for several languages.
417 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
418 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
419 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
421 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
423 - Improved table support.
425 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
427 - easier handling of index entries.
429 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
430 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
431 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
432 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
435 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
436 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as