1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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4 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
5 We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
6 this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
8 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
9 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
13 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
14 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
16 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
17 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
19 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
21 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
23 - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
25 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
27 - Better definition for LyXList style.
29 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
30 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
31 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
32 support is of course not supported in older versions.
34 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
36 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
37 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
39 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
40 screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
41 by lyx should be stored.
46 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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49 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
50 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
51 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
54 In the user-visible department, we find:
56 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
57 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
58 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
59 the GUI pops up during the process...
61 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
63 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
64 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
66 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
67 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
68 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
69 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
71 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
74 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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77 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
78 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
80 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
81 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
82 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
84 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
85 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
88 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
91 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
93 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
94 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
95 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
96 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
97 for the sake of correctness.
99 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
100 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
102 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
103 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
105 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
107 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
109 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
111 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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114 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
116 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
117 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
118 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
120 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
122 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
124 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
126 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
129 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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132 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
133 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
134 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
135 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
136 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
137 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
139 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
141 - New export to HTML feature
143 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
145 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
146 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
147 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
149 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
150 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
151 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
153 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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156 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
157 new features has been included:
163 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
165 - Several language files updated.
167 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
169 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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172 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
174 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
177 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
179 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
181 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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184 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
185 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
187 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
189 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
190 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
192 - Better multipart document support.
194 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
197 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
200 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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203 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
204 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
206 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
208 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
210 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
212 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
214 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
218 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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221 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
222 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
224 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
225 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
226 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
227 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
228 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
230 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
231 footnotes, and generally better output.
233 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
234 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
235 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
236 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
237 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
239 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
240 and error message translations) for several languages.
242 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
243 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
244 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
246 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
248 - Improved table support.
250 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
252 - easier handling of index entries.
254 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
255 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
256 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
257 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
260 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
261 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as