1 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
2 ----------------------------
4 We encourage users to try this release candidate and report
5 any feedback or problems to lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org.
7 Compared with the first release candidate we have mostly fixed bugs
8 and polished the graphical interface.
10 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
11 ----------------------------
13 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
14 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
15 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
16 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
18 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
19 ----------------------------
21 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
22 and added some improvements:
24 * A new inset to support code listings.
25 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
26 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
28 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
29 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
31 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
32 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
35 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
36 ----------------------------
38 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
39 added some graphical improvements:
40 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
41 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
42 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
44 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
45 the user interface have been made, such as:
47 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
48 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
49 - Support optional argument for environments
51 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
52 ----------------------------
56 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
57 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
58 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
59 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
60 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
61 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
62 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
63 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
64 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
65 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
68 * Integrated CJK support
70 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
71 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
73 * Multiple views of the same buffer
75 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
76 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
77 parts of it synchronously.
81 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
82 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
83 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
88 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
89 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
90 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
91 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
92 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
93 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
97 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
98 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
101 * New Font Selection Interface
103 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
104 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
105 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
109 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
110 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
111 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
116 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
117 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
118 glossaries and fancy notations.
122 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
126 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
127 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
128 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
129 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
130 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
131 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
132 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
133 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
136 * Change tracking enhancements
138 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
139 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
141 * Converter file cache
143 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
144 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
145 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
146 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
147 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
148 you want to use it, add the line
149 \use_converter_cache true
151 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
152 6 months. You can change that with the line
153 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
155 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
157 * Unified Windows installer
159 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
160 both installers are welcome.
164 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
165 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
166 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
167 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
168 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
169 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
170 series has been to bring this speed back.
173 What's new in version 1.4.4?
174 ----------------------------
179 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
181 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
183 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
185 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
186 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
187 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
188 if you want to use this feature.
190 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
192 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
193 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
194 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
195 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
196 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
198 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
202 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
203 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
205 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
206 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
208 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
209 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
212 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
214 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
215 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
217 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
219 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
220 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
221 floats, notes, and boxes.
223 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
225 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
226 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
228 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
229 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
230 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
236 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
238 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
239 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
240 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
242 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
245 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
247 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
249 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
252 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
255 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
257 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
260 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
261 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
262 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
264 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
266 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
268 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
271 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
273 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
276 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
278 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
280 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
282 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
284 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
285 it cannot be omitted.
289 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
291 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
293 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
294 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
296 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
297 taller than the workarea.
299 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
300 related to large insets.
302 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
303 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
306 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
307 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
309 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
312 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
315 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
317 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
319 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
320 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
322 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
323 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
324 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
326 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
329 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
330 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
332 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
334 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
336 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
338 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
339 inset, do not open it by mistake.
341 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
342 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
344 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
346 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
348 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
350 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
352 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
355 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
357 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
359 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
361 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
363 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
365 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
367 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
369 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
370 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
372 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
374 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
376 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
378 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
380 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
383 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
384 a document. This is fixed.
386 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
387 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
388 (bug 3066) [qt only].
390 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
391 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
393 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
394 in preferences (bug 895)
396 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
399 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
401 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
403 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
407 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
409 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
412 What's new in version 1.4.3?
413 ----------------------------
417 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
418 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
420 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
421 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
424 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
426 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
428 - Some small updates to the documentation.
430 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
431 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
433 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
434 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
438 * Document Input/Output
440 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
442 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
445 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
447 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
448 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
450 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
451 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
454 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
455 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
457 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
458 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
460 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
462 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
464 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
466 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
470 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
471 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
473 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
474 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
476 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
477 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
479 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
481 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
483 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
485 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
487 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
490 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
492 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
494 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
496 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
499 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
501 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
502 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
504 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
505 if it exists (bug 2779).
507 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
508 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
510 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
511 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
513 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
515 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
517 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
519 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
521 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
522 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
524 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
525 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
527 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
529 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
531 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
533 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
535 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
536 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
538 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
539 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
541 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
543 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
544 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
546 * Build/installation:
548 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
550 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
551 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
553 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
554 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
556 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
558 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
560 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
561 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
562 package under cygwin.
564 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
565 development/cmake/README.cmake
567 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
568 project and scons or CMake.
572 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
574 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
576 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
578 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
580 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
581 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
583 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
585 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
589 What's new in version 1.4.2?
590 ----------------------------
594 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
595 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
597 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
598 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
601 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
602 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
604 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
605 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
607 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
609 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
610 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
611 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
613 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
614 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
617 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
619 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
621 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
623 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
630 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
632 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
635 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
638 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
639 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
641 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
642 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
644 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
647 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
648 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
650 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
653 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
654 change tracking mode.
656 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
657 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
659 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
660 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
662 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
663 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
665 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
668 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
671 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
673 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
674 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
676 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
678 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
679 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
681 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
683 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
685 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
689 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
692 - Fix undo in matrices.
694 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
696 * Document input/output:
698 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
701 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
702 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
704 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
705 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
706 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
708 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
710 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
713 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
715 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
717 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
719 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
721 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
724 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
726 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
730 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
731 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
732 has also been pythonified.
734 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
737 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
738 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
739 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
740 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
742 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
743 directory on Windows.
745 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
746 rename the executable files.
748 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
749 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
751 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
753 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
754 in the source package.
756 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
759 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
761 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
762 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
765 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
766 support via zlib is now a requirement.
768 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
771 What's new in version 1.4.1?
772 ----------------------------
776 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
779 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
780 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
781 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
783 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
784 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
786 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
792 * Document input/output:
794 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
796 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
798 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
801 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
803 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
805 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
807 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
809 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
812 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
814 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
816 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
818 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
820 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
821 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
822 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
827 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
829 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
831 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
833 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
836 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
839 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
841 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
843 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
845 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
850 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
852 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
854 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
855 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
857 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
859 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
861 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
862 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
864 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
865 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
867 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
869 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
871 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
873 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
874 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
876 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
878 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
880 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
882 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
884 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
886 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
888 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
890 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
892 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
894 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
895 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
897 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
900 * Configuration/Installation:
902 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
903 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
905 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
908 What's new in version 1.4.0?
909 ----------------------------
911 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
912 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
913 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
915 ** Improved user interface
917 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
918 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
919 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
920 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
921 classic UI) is still available, for now.
923 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
924 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
925 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
926 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
927 available: one for tables, and one for math.
929 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
930 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
935 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
936 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
937 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
940 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
942 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
943 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
944 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
945 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
949 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
950 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
951 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
952 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
958 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
959 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
960 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
962 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
963 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
964 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
966 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
968 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
969 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
974 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
975 the Insert>Note menu:
977 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
978 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
980 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
981 well, greyed-out text.
983 ** Better language and numbering on screen
985 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
987 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
988 the language of the document, which may be different from the
989 language of the menus;
990 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
991 document class specifications.
995 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
996 count of the document or of the current selection.
1000 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1001 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1003 ** Improved bibliography support
1005 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1006 "before citation" field is supported;
1007 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1008 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1010 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1011 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1012 index processor is invoked).
1014 ** Improved microtypography support
1016 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1018 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1019 between "e." and "g.");
1020 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1021 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1022 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1023 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1024 much space between figure/table and caption.
1028 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1030 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1033 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1034 edit the included figure
1036 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1037 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1041 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1042 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1045 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1046 ----------------------------
1048 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1049 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1052 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1053 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1055 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1056 installer and in the handling of file names.
1058 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1061 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1062 ----------------------------
1064 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1066 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1067 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1068 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1069 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1070 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1071 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1072 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1074 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1075 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1076 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1078 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1079 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1080 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1081 considered as part of words
1085 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1086 ----------------------------
1088 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1089 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1090 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1091 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1092 case where the files are in different directories.
1093 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1095 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1096 ----------------------------
1098 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1100 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1101 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1102 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1103 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1105 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1106 * The interface and documentation localization have
1109 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1110 ----------------------------
1112 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1114 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1115 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1116 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1117 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1118 the user interface and documentation.
1120 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1121 ----------------------------
1123 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1125 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1127 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1128 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1131 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1132 ----------------------------
1134 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1135 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1136 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1137 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1138 improvements) for good measure.
1142 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1143 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1145 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1146 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1148 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1149 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1150 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1151 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1154 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1155 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1156 (documentation has been updated too)
1158 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1159 spanish translation of menus
1161 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1162 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1163 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1165 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1166 ----------------------------
1168 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1169 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1170 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1171 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1172 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1174 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1175 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1176 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1180 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1181 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1182 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1183 functionally equivalent.
1185 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1186 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1187 symbols displayed properly.
1191 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1192 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1193 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1198 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1199 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1200 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1201 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1202 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1203 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1204 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1205 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1206 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1207 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1211 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1212 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1213 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1214 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1215 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1216 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1217 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1218 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1219 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1220 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1221 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1222 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1223 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1224 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1225 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1227 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1228 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1230 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1231 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1232 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1233 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1234 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1236 ** Reading old files
1238 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1239 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1240 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1241 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1243 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1244 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1245 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1246 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1248 ** Miscellaneous changes
1250 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1251 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1252 configure your font server).
1254 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1255 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1258 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1259 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1262 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1263 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1264 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1268 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1269 ----------------------------
1271 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1272 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1273 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1274 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1278 - updated italian User Guide
1280 - updated french localization
1283 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1284 ----------------------------
1286 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1287 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1292 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1293 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1294 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1296 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1297 when dragging the mouse)
1299 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1300 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1301 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1304 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1305 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1306 who are not aware that it is needed
1308 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1309 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1311 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1312 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1314 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1316 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1318 - update sciword bindings
1320 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1321 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1323 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1327 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1328 ----------------------------
1330 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1331 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1332 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1333 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1338 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1339 when this gets released)
1341 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1342 the performance problems
1344 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1346 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1347 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1348 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1350 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1353 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1354 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1355 help entering of ERT insets)
1357 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1359 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1361 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1363 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1364 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1367 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1369 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1372 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1373 line and have this file created for you
1375 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1376 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1379 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1380 ----------------------------
1382 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1383 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1384 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1385 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1386 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1389 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1390 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1393 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1394 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1397 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1398 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1399 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1401 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1404 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1405 appear in the output.
1407 - New minipage inset
1409 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1410 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1414 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1416 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1417 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1418 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1421 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1425 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1426 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1427 process, among which:
1429 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1431 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1432 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1433 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1435 - support for many amsmath features
1436 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1437 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1438 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1439 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1442 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1444 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1446 - Improvements to the parser
1448 - Improvements to math text mode
1450 - (Better) support for nested macros
1452 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1454 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1456 - GUI support provided for many more features
1459 Other changes include:
1461 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1464 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1465 improved in the process
1467 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1468 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1469 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1471 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1474 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1475 "shelfful", or many german words
1477 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1478 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1479 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1480 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1482 - Updated documentation
1484 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1487 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1489 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1491 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1493 - Babel can be disabled
1495 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1497 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1498 ------------------------------------
1500 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1504 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1506 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1507 appears to be more suitable.
1509 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1510 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1512 - add support for dvipdfm
1514 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1515 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1517 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1520 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1522 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1525 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1527 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1530 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1531 ------------------------------------
1533 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1537 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1540 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1541 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1543 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1546 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1547 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1549 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1550 Theoretical Computer Science
1552 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1554 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1555 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1557 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1558 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1559 with the older version
1562 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1563 ------------------------------------
1565 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1569 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1571 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1572 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1573 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1575 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1576 documentation update.
1578 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1581 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1582 ------------------------------------
1584 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1588 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1589 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1591 - better support for ukrainian language
1593 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1594 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1596 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1597 line-delete-forward.
1599 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1601 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1604 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1605 --------------------------------
1607 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1608 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1609 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1611 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1612 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1613 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1614 from the older development version:
1616 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1617 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1618 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1619 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1620 have been overhauled.
1622 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1625 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1626 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1628 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1630 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1631 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1632 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1634 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1636 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1637 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1638 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1639 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1640 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1641 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1642 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1644 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1645 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1646 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1649 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1650 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1651 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1652 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1653 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1654 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1656 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1657 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1658 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1659 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1660 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1662 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1664 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1666 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1667 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1668 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1669 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1670 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1671 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1673 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1675 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1678 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1679 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1681 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1682 mentioned here for your information
1684 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1685 (this can be changed in preferences).
1687 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1692 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1693 --------------------------------
1695 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1696 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1697 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1699 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1700 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1702 User-visible changes:
1704 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1706 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1708 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1710 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1712 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1713 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1715 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1716 command-line/window:
1717 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1719 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1720 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1722 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1724 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1726 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1728 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1729 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1730 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1731 (And you probably had the error always.)
1733 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1735 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1736 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1738 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1740 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1741 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1742 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1743 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1745 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1747 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1748 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1750 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1751 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1753 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1754 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1755 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1756 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1759 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1760 --------------------------------
1762 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1763 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1764 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1767 In the user-visible department, we find:
1769 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1770 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1771 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1772 the GUI pops up during the process...
1774 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1776 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1777 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1779 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1780 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1781 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1782 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1784 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1787 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1788 --------------------------------
1790 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1791 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1793 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1794 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1795 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1797 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1798 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1801 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1804 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1806 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1807 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1808 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1809 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1810 for the sake of correctness.
1812 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1813 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1815 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1816 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1818 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1820 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1822 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1824 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1825 --------------------------------
1827 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1829 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1830 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1831 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1833 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1835 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1837 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1839 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1840 has also been fixed.
1842 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1843 --------------------------------
1845 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1846 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1847 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1848 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1849 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1850 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1852 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1854 - New export to HTML feature
1856 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1858 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1859 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1860 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1862 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1863 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1864 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1866 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1867 --------------------------------------------------
1869 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1870 new features has been included:
1876 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1878 - Several language files updated.
1880 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1882 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1883 --------------------------------------------------
1885 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1887 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1890 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1892 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1894 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1895 --------------------------------------------------
1897 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1898 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1900 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1902 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1903 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1905 - Better multipart document support.
1907 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1910 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1913 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1914 --------------------------------------------------
1916 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1917 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1919 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1921 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1923 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1925 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1927 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1931 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1932 ----------------------------------------------------
1934 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1935 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1937 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1938 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1939 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1940 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1941 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1943 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1944 footnotes, and generally better output.
1946 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1947 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1948 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1949 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1950 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1952 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1953 and error message translations) for several languages.
1955 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1956 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1957 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1959 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1961 - Improved table support.
1963 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1965 - easier handling of index entries.
1967 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1968 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1969 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1970 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1973 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1974 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as