1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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4 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
5 of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
6 ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
9 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
10 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
11 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
12 from the older development version:
14 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
15 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
16 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
17 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
20 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
21 lyxrc settings [Allan, details?]
23 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
24 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
26 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
28 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
29 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
30 will give you an idea of what is happening.
32 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
34 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
35 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
36 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
37 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
38 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
39 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
40 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
42 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
43 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
44 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
47 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
48 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
49 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
50 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
51 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
52 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
54 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
55 viewing or exporting purposes) has been rewritten. In particular, the
56 PDF format is now supported. In fact it's now possible to add
57 new export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external
58 programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old export lyxrc
59 settings no longer work).
61 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
63 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
64 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
65 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
66 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
67 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
68 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
70 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (already present in 1.1.5fix2).
72 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
75 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
76 mentioned here for your information
78 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
79 (this can be changed in lyxrc).
81 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
86 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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89 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
90 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
91 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
93 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
94 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
98 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
100 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
102 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
104 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
106 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
107 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
109 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
111 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
113 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
114 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
116 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
118 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
120 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
122 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
123 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
124 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
125 (And you probably had the error always.)
127 - Better definition for LyXList style.
129 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
130 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
132 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
134 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
135 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
136 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
137 support is of course not supported in older versions.
139 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
141 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
142 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
144 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
145 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
147 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
148 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
149 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
150 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
153 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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156 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
157 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
158 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
161 In the user-visible department, we find:
163 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
164 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
165 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
166 the GUI pops up during the process...
168 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
170 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
171 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
173 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
174 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
175 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
176 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
178 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
181 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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184 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
185 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
187 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
188 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
189 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
191 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
192 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
195 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
198 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
200 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
201 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
202 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
203 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
204 for the sake of correctness.
206 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
207 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
209 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
210 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
212 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
214 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
216 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
218 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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221 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
223 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
224 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
225 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
227 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
229 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
231 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
233 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
236 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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239 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
240 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
241 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
242 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
243 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
244 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
246 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
248 - New export to HTML feature
250 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
252 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
253 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
254 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
256 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
257 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
258 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
260 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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263 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
264 new features has been included:
270 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
272 - Several language files updated.
274 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
276 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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279 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
281 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
284 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
286 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
288 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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291 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
292 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
294 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
296 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
297 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
299 - Better multipart document support.
301 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
304 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
307 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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310 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
311 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
313 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
315 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
317 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
319 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
321 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
325 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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328 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
329 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
331 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
332 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
333 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
334 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
335 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
337 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
338 footnotes, and generally better output.
340 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
341 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
342 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
343 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
344 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
346 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
347 and error message translations) for several languages.
349 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
350 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
351 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
353 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
355 - Improved table support.
357 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
359 - easier handling of index entries.
361 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
362 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
363 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
364 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
367 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
368 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as