1 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
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 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
8 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
9 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
10 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
12 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
13 ----------------------------
15 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
16 and added some improvements:
18 * A new inset to support code listings.
19 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
20 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
22 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
23 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
25 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
26 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
29 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
30 ----------------------------
32 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
33 added some graphical improvements:
34 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
35 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
36 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
38 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
39 the user interface have been made, such as:
41 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
42 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
43 - Support optional argument for environments
45 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
46 ----------------------------
50 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
51 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
52 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
53 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
54 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
55 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
56 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
57 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
58 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
59 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
62 * Integrated CJK support
64 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
65 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
67 * Multiple views of the same buffer
69 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
70 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
71 parts of it synchronously.
75 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
76 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
77 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
82 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
83 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
84 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
85 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
86 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
87 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
91 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
92 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
95 * New Font Selection Interface
97 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
98 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
99 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
103 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
104 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
105 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
110 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
111 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
112 glossaries and fancy notations.
116 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
120 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
121 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
122 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
123 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
124 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
125 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
126 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
127 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
130 * Change tracking enhancements
132 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
133 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
135 * Converter file cache
137 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
138 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
139 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
140 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
141 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
142 you want to use it, add the line
143 \use_converter_cache true
145 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
146 6 months. You can change that with the line
147 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
149 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
151 * Unified Windows installer
153 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
154 both installers are welcome.
158 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
159 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
160 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
161 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
162 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
163 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
164 series has been to bring this speed back.
167 What's new in version 1.4.4?
168 ----------------------------
173 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
175 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
177 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
179 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
180 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
181 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
182 if you want to use this feature.
184 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
186 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
187 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
188 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
189 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
190 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
192 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
196 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
197 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
199 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
200 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
202 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
203 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
206 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
208 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
209 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
211 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
213 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
214 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
215 floats, notes, and boxes.
217 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
219 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
220 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
222 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
223 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
224 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
230 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
232 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
233 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
234 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
236 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
239 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
241 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
243 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
246 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
249 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
251 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
254 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
255 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
256 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
258 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
260 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
262 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
265 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
267 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
270 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
272 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
274 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
276 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
278 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
279 it cannot be omitted.
283 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
285 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
287 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
288 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
290 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
291 taller than the workarea.
293 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
294 related to large insets.
296 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
297 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
300 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
301 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
303 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
306 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
309 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
311 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
313 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
314 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
316 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
317 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
318 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
320 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
323 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
324 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
326 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
328 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
330 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
332 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
333 inset, do not open it by mistake.
335 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
336 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
338 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
340 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
342 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
344 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
346 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
349 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
351 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
353 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
355 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
357 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
359 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
361 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
363 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
364 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
366 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
368 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
370 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
372 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
374 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
377 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
378 a document. This is fixed.
380 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
381 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
382 (bug 3066) [qt only].
384 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
385 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
387 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
388 in preferences (bug 895)
390 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
393 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
395 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
397 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
401 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
403 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
406 What's new in version 1.4.3?
407 ----------------------------
411 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
412 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
414 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
415 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
418 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
420 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
422 - Some small updates to the documentation.
424 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
425 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
427 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
428 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
432 * Document Input/Output
434 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
436 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
439 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
441 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
442 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
444 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
445 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
448 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
449 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
451 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
452 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
454 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
456 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
458 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
460 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
464 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
465 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
467 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
468 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
470 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
471 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
473 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
475 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
477 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
479 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
481 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
484 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
486 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
488 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
490 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
493 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
495 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
496 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
498 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
499 if it exists (bug 2779).
501 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
502 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
504 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
505 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
507 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
509 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
511 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
513 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
515 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
516 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
518 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
519 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
521 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
523 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
525 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
527 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
529 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
530 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
532 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
533 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
535 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
537 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
538 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
540 * Build/installation:
542 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
544 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
545 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
547 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
548 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
550 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
552 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
554 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
555 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
556 package under cygwin.
558 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
559 development/cmake/README.cmake
561 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
562 project and scons or CMake.
566 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
568 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
570 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
572 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
574 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
575 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
577 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
579 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
583 What's new in version 1.4.2?
584 ----------------------------
588 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
589 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
591 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
592 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
595 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
596 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
598 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
599 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
601 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
603 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
604 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
605 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
607 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
608 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
611 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
613 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
615 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
617 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
624 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
626 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
629 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
632 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
633 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
635 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
636 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
638 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
641 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
642 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
644 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
647 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
648 change tracking mode.
650 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
651 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
653 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
654 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
656 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
657 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
659 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
662 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
665 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
667 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
668 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
670 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
672 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
673 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
675 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
677 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
679 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
683 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
686 - Fix undo in matrices.
688 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
690 * Document input/output:
692 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
695 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
696 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
698 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
699 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
700 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
702 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
704 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
707 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
709 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
711 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
713 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
715 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
718 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
720 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
724 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
725 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
726 has also been pythonified.
728 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
731 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
732 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
733 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
734 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
736 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
737 directory on Windows.
739 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
740 rename the executable files.
742 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
743 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
745 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
747 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
748 in the source package.
750 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
753 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
755 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
756 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
759 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
760 support via zlib is now a requirement.
762 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
765 What's new in version 1.4.1?
766 ----------------------------
770 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
773 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
774 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
775 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
777 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
778 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
780 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
786 * Document input/output:
788 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
790 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
792 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
795 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
797 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
799 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
801 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
803 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
806 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
808 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
810 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
812 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
814 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
815 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
816 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
821 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
823 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
825 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
827 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
830 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
833 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
835 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
837 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
839 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
844 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
846 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
848 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
849 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
851 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
853 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
855 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
856 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
858 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
859 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
861 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
863 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
865 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
867 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
868 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
870 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
872 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
874 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
876 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
878 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
880 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
882 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
884 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
886 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
888 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
889 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
891 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
894 * Configuration/Installation:
896 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
897 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
899 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
902 What's new in version 1.4.0?
903 ----------------------------
905 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
906 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
907 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
909 ** Improved user interface
911 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
912 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
913 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
914 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
915 classic UI) is still available, for now.
917 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
918 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
919 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
920 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
921 available: one for tables, and one for math.
923 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
924 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
929 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
930 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
931 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
934 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
936 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
937 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
938 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
939 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
943 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
944 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
945 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
946 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
952 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
953 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
954 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
956 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
957 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
958 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
960 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
962 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
963 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
968 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
969 the Insert>Note menu:
971 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
972 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
974 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
975 well, greyed-out text.
977 ** Better language and numbering on screen
979 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
981 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
982 the language of the document, which may be different from the
983 language of the menus;
984 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
985 document class specifications.
989 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
990 count of the document or of the current selection.
994 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
995 of errors popping up at compilation time.
997 ** Improved bibliography support
999 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1000 "before citation" field is supported;
1001 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1002 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1004 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1005 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1006 index processor is invoked).
1008 ** Improved microtypography support
1010 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1012 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1013 between "e." and "g.");
1014 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1015 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1016 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1017 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1018 much space between figure/table and caption.
1022 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1024 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1027 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1028 edit the included figure
1030 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1031 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1035 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1036 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1039 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1040 ----------------------------
1042 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1043 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1046 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1047 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1049 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1050 installer and in the handling of file names.
1052 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1055 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1056 ----------------------------
1058 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1060 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1061 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1062 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1063 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1064 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1065 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1066 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1068 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1069 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1070 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1072 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1073 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1074 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1075 considered as part of words
1079 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1080 ----------------------------
1082 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1083 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1084 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1085 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1086 case where the files are in different directories.
1087 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1089 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1090 ----------------------------
1092 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1094 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1095 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1096 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1097 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1099 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1100 * The interface and documentation localization have
1103 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1104 ----------------------------
1106 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1108 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1109 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1110 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1111 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1112 the user interface and documentation.
1114 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1115 ----------------------------
1117 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1119 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1121 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1122 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1125 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1126 ----------------------------
1128 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1129 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1130 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1131 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1132 improvements) for good measure.
1136 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1137 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1139 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1140 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1142 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1143 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1144 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1145 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1148 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1149 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1150 (documentation has been updated too)
1152 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1153 spanish translation of menus
1155 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1156 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1157 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1159 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1160 ----------------------------
1162 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1163 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1164 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1165 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1166 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1168 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1169 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1170 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1174 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1175 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1176 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1177 functionally equivalent.
1179 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1180 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1181 symbols displayed properly.
1185 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1186 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1187 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1192 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1193 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1194 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1195 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1196 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1197 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1198 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1199 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1200 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1201 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1205 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1206 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1207 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1208 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1209 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1210 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1211 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1212 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1213 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1214 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1215 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1216 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1217 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1218 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1219 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1221 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1222 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1224 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1225 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1226 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1227 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1228 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1230 ** Reading old files
1232 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1233 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1234 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1235 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1237 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1238 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1239 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1240 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1242 ** Miscellaneous changes
1244 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1245 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1246 configure your font server).
1248 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1249 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1252 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1253 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1256 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1257 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1258 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1262 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1263 ----------------------------
1265 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1266 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1267 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1268 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1272 - updated italian User Guide
1274 - updated french localization
1277 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1278 ----------------------------
1280 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1281 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1286 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1287 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1288 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1290 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1291 when dragging the mouse)
1293 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1294 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1295 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1298 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1299 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1300 who are not aware that it is needed
1302 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1303 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1305 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1306 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1308 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1310 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1312 - update sciword bindings
1314 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1315 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1317 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1321 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1322 ----------------------------
1324 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1325 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1326 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1327 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1332 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1333 when this gets released)
1335 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1336 the performance problems
1338 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1340 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1341 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1342 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1344 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1347 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1348 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1349 help entering of ERT insets)
1351 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1353 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1355 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1357 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1358 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1361 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1363 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1366 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1367 line and have this file created for you
1369 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1370 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1373 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1374 ----------------------------
1376 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1377 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1378 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1379 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1380 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1383 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1384 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1387 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1388 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1391 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1392 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1393 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1395 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1398 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1399 appear in the output.
1401 - New minipage inset
1403 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1404 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1408 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1410 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1411 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1412 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1415 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1419 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1420 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1421 process, among which:
1423 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1425 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1426 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1427 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1429 - support for many amsmath features
1430 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1431 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1432 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1433 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1436 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1438 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1440 - Improvements to the parser
1442 - Improvements to math text mode
1444 - (Better) support for nested macros
1446 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1448 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1450 - GUI support provided for many more features
1453 Other changes include:
1455 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1458 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1459 improved in the process
1461 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1462 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1463 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1465 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1468 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1469 "shelfful", or many german words
1471 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1472 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1473 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1474 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1476 - Updated documentation
1478 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1481 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1483 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1485 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1487 - Babel can be disabled
1489 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1491 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1492 ------------------------------------
1494 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1498 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1500 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1501 appears to be more suitable.
1503 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1504 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1506 - add support for dvipdfm
1508 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1509 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1511 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1514 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1516 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1519 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1521 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1524 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1525 ------------------------------------
1527 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1531 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1534 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1535 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1537 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1540 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1541 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1543 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1544 Theoretical Computer Science
1546 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1548 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1549 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1551 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1552 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1553 with the older version
1556 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1557 ------------------------------------
1559 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1563 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1565 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1566 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1567 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1569 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1570 documentation update.
1572 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1575 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1576 ------------------------------------
1578 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1582 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1583 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1585 - better support for ukrainian language
1587 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1588 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1590 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1591 line-delete-forward.
1593 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1595 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1598 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1599 --------------------------------
1601 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1602 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1603 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1605 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1606 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1607 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1608 from the older development version:
1610 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1611 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1612 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1613 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1614 have been overhauled.
1616 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1619 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1620 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1622 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1624 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1625 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1626 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1628 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1630 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1631 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1632 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1633 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1634 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1635 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1636 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1638 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1639 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1640 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1643 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1644 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1645 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1646 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1647 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1648 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1650 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1651 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1652 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1653 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1654 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1656 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1658 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1660 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1661 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1662 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1663 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1664 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1665 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1667 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1669 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1672 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1673 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1675 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1676 mentioned here for your information
1678 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1679 (this can be changed in preferences).
1681 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1686 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1687 --------------------------------
1689 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1690 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1691 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1693 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1694 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1696 User-visible changes:
1698 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1700 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1702 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1704 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1706 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1707 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1709 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1710 command-line/window:
1711 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1713 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1714 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1716 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1718 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1720 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1722 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1723 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1724 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1725 (And you probably had the error always.)
1727 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1729 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1730 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1732 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1734 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1735 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1736 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1737 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1739 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1741 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1742 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1744 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1745 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1747 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1748 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1749 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1750 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1753 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1754 --------------------------------
1756 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1757 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1758 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1761 In the user-visible department, we find:
1763 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1764 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1765 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1766 the GUI pops up during the process...
1768 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1770 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1771 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1773 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1774 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1775 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1776 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1778 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1781 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1782 --------------------------------
1784 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1785 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1787 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1788 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1789 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1791 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1792 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1795 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1798 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1800 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1801 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1802 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1803 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1804 for the sake of correctness.
1806 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1807 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1809 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1810 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1812 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1814 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1816 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1818 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1819 --------------------------------
1821 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1823 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1824 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1825 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1827 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1829 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1831 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1833 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1834 has also been fixed.
1836 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1837 --------------------------------
1839 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1840 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1841 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1842 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1843 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1844 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1846 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1848 - New export to HTML feature
1850 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1852 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1853 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1854 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1856 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1857 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1858 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1860 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1861 --------------------------------------------------
1863 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1864 new features has been included:
1870 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1872 - Several language files updated.
1874 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1876 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1877 --------------------------------------------------
1879 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1881 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1884 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1886 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1888 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1889 --------------------------------------------------
1891 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1892 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1894 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1896 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1897 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1899 - Better multipart document support.
1901 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1904 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1907 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1908 --------------------------------------------------
1910 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1911 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1913 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1915 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1917 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1919 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1921 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1925 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1926 ----------------------------------------------------
1928 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1929 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1931 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1932 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1933 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1934 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1935 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1937 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1938 footnotes, and generally better output.
1940 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1941 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1942 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1943 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1944 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1946 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1947 and error message translations) for several languages.
1949 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1950 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1951 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1953 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1955 - Improved table support.
1957 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1959 - easier handling of index entries.
1961 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1962 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1963 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1964 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1967 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1968 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as