1 What's new in version 2.0.0?
2 -------------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
7 * Advanced Search Facility
8 * Spell-checking on the Fly
9 * Compare Documents Feature
11 * Multilingual Thesaurus
13 * Multiple Indices Support
14 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
15 * Enhanced Instant Preview
16 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
17 * Enhanced Version Control Features
18 * Typesetting in background
21 What's new in version 1.6.10?
22 ------------------------------
23 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
24 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
25 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
26 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
27 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
31 What's new in version 1.6.9?
32 -----------------------------
34 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
35 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
36 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
37 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
40 What's new in version 1.6.8?
41 -----------------------------
43 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
44 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
45 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
46 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
49 What's new in version 1.6.7?
50 -----------------------------
52 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
53 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
54 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
55 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
59 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
60 ------------------------------
62 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
63 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
64 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
65 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
68 What's new in version 1.6.6?
69 -----------------------------
71 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
72 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
73 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
74 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
75 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
76 spelling in parallel).
79 What's new in version 1.6.5?
80 -----------------------------
82 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
83 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
84 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
85 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
86 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
89 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
90 -------------------------------
92 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
93 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
96 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
97 -------------------------------
99 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
100 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
101 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
104 What's new in version 1.6.4?
105 -------------------------------
107 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
108 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
111 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
112 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
113 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
114 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
115 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
116 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
117 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
118 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
121 What's new in version 1.6.3?
122 -------------------------------
124 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
125 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
127 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
128 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
129 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
130 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
132 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
133 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
134 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
135 compiled against Qt 4.5.
138 What's new in version 1.6.2?
139 -------------------------------
141 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
142 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
143 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
144 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
145 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
146 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
147 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
150 What's new in version 1.6.1?
151 -------------------------------
153 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
154 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
155 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
159 What's new in version 1.6.0?
160 -------------------------------
162 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
163 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
165 * Multiple Work Areas
167 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
169 * Layout combobox changes
170 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
171 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
173 * New implementation of math macros
178 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
179 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
180 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
185 * Graphics parameters groups
186 * LyX functions manual
187 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
190 What's new in version 1.5.7?
191 ----------------------------
193 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
194 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
195 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
196 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
197 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
198 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
201 What's new in version 1.5.6?
202 ----------------------------
204 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
205 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
206 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
207 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
210 What's new in version 1.5.5?
211 ----------------------------
213 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
214 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
215 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
216 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
217 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
220 What's new in version 1.5.4?
221 ----------------------------
223 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
224 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
225 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
226 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
229 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
230 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
231 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
232 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
233 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
236 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
237 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
238 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
239 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
240 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
241 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
242 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
243 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
246 What's new in version 1.5.3?
247 ----------------------------
249 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
250 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
251 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
252 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
253 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
254 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
255 version also provides some new features.
258 What's new in version 1.5.2?
259 ----------------------------
261 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
262 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
263 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
264 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
267 What's new in version 1.5.1?
268 ----------------------------
270 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
271 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
272 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
273 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
274 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
276 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
279 What's new in version 1.5.0?
280 ----------------------------
282 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
283 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
284 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
288 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
289 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
290 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
291 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
292 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
293 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
294 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
295 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
296 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
297 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
300 * Integrated CJK support
302 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
303 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
304 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
306 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
307 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
308 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
309 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
313 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
314 have full user interface support.
316 * Multiple views of the same buffer
318 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
319 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
320 parts of it synchronously.
322 * Outliner and embedded TOC
324 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
325 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
326 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
327 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
331 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
332 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
333 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
334 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
335 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
336 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
340 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
341 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
344 * New Font Selection Interface
346 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
347 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
348 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
352 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
353 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
354 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
358 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
359 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
360 glossaries and fancy notations.
364 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
366 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
368 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
369 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
370 to the math toolbars.
371 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
372 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
376 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
377 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
378 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
379 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
380 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
381 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
382 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
383 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
386 * Change tracking enhancements
388 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
389 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
391 * Converter file cache
393 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
394 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
395 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
396 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
397 is enabled by default.
399 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
402 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
404 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
406 * Unified Windows installer
408 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
409 both installers are welcome.
413 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
414 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
415 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
417 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
418 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
420 * LaTeX-package support
422 LyX provides the following new document classes:
423 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
424 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
425 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
426 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
427 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
429 * Minor user interface improvements
431 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
433 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
434 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
435 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
437 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
439 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
440 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
441 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
442 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
443 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
444 even after the selection has been cleared.
446 * Limited support for local class and layout files
448 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
449 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
450 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
451 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
452 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
453 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
454 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
458 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
459 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
460 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
461 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
462 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
463 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
464 series has been to bring this speed back.
468 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
469 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
472 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
473 ------------------------------
475 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
476 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
479 What's new in version 1.4.5?
480 ----------------------------
482 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
483 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
484 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
485 python 2.3.4 or later).
488 What's new in version 1.4.4?
489 ----------------------------
491 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
493 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
494 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
496 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
497 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
499 *) Improved documentation.
501 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
504 What's new in version 1.4.3?
505 ----------------------------
507 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
508 support. Notable new features include:
510 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
511 installation anymore.
513 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
514 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
515 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
516 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
518 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
522 What's new in version 1.4.2?
523 ----------------------------
525 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
527 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
528 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
530 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
532 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
533 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
534 be compressed on disk or not.
536 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
537 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
538 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
541 What's new in version 1.4.1?
542 ----------------------------
544 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
546 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
547 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
549 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
552 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
554 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
556 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
557 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
560 What's new in version 1.4.0?
561 ----------------------------
563 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
564 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
565 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
567 ** Improved user interface
569 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
570 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
571 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
572 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
573 classic UI) is still available, for now.
575 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
576 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
577 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
578 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
579 available: one for tables, and one for math.
581 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
582 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
587 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
588 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
589 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
592 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
594 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
595 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
596 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
597 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
601 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
602 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
603 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
604 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
610 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
611 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
612 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
614 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
615 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
616 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
618 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
620 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
621 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
626 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
627 the Insert>Note menu:
629 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
630 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
632 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
633 well, greyed-out text.
635 ** Better language and numbering on screen
637 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
639 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
640 the language of the document, which may be different from the
641 language of the menus;
642 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
643 document class specifications.
647 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
648 count of the document or of the current selection.
652 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
653 of errors popping up at compilation time.
655 ** Improved bibliography support
657 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
658 "before citation" field is supported;
659 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
660 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
662 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
663 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
664 index processor is invoked).
666 ** Improved microtypography support
668 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
670 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
671 between "e." and "g.");
672 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
673 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
674 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
675 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
676 much space between figure/table and caption.
680 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
682 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
685 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
686 edit the included figure
688 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
689 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
693 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
694 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
697 What's new in version 1.3.7?
698 ----------------------------
700 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
701 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
704 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
705 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
707 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
708 installer and in the handling of file names.
710 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
713 What's new in version 1.3.6?
714 ----------------------------
716 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
718 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
719 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
720 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
721 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
722 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
723 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
724 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
726 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
727 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
728 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
730 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
731 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
732 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
733 considered as part of words
737 What's new in version 1.3.5?
738 ----------------------------
740 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
741 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
742 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
743 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
744 case where the files are in different directories.
745 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
747 What's new in version 1.3.4?
748 ----------------------------
750 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
752 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
753 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
754 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
755 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
757 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
758 * The interface and documentation localization have
761 What's new in version 1.3.3?
762 ----------------------------
764 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
766 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
767 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
768 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
769 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
770 the user interface and documentation.
772 What's new in version 1.3.2?
773 ----------------------------
775 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
777 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
779 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
780 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
783 What's new in version 1.3.1?
784 ----------------------------
786 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
787 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
788 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
789 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
790 improvements) for good measure.
794 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
795 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
797 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
798 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
800 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
801 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
802 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
803 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
806 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
807 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
808 (documentation has been updated too)
810 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
811 spanish translation of menus
813 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
814 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
815 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
817 What's new in version 1.3.0?
818 ----------------------------
820 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
821 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
822 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
823 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
824 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
826 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
827 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
828 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
832 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
833 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
834 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
835 functionally equivalent.
837 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
838 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
839 symbols displayed properly.
843 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
844 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
845 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
850 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
851 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
852 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
853 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
854 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
855 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
856 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
857 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
858 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
859 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
863 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
864 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
865 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
866 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
867 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
868 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
869 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
870 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
871 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
872 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
873 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
874 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
875 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
876 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
877 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
879 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
880 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
882 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
883 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
884 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
885 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
886 the inset and press 'backspace'.
890 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
891 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
892 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
893 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
895 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
896 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
897 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
898 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
900 ** Miscellaneous changes
902 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
903 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
904 configure your font server).
906 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
907 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
910 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
911 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
914 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
915 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
916 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
920 What's new in version 1.2.3?
921 ----------------------------
923 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
924 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
925 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
926 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
930 - updated italian User Guide
932 - updated french localization
935 What's new in version 1.2.2?
936 ----------------------------
938 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
939 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
944 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
945 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
946 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
948 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
949 when dragging the mouse)
951 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
952 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
953 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
956 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
957 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
958 who are not aware that it is needed
960 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
961 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
963 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
964 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
966 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
968 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
970 - update sciword bindings
972 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
973 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
975 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
979 What's new in version 1.2.1?
980 ----------------------------
982 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
983 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
984 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
985 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
990 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
991 when this gets released)
993 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
994 the performance problems
996 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
998 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
999 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1000 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1002 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1005 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1006 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1007 help entering of ERT insets)
1009 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1011 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1013 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1015 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1016 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1019 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1021 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1024 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1025 line and have this file created for you
1027 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1028 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1031 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1032 ----------------------------
1034 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1035 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1036 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1037 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1038 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1041 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1042 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1045 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1046 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1049 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1050 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1051 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1053 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1056 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1057 appear in the output.
1059 - New minipage inset
1061 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1062 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1066 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1068 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1069 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1070 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1073 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1077 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1078 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1079 process, among which:
1081 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1083 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1084 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1085 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1087 - support for many amsmath features
1088 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1089 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1090 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1091 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1094 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1096 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1098 - Improvements to the parser
1100 - Improvements to math text mode
1102 - (Better) support for nested macros
1104 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1106 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1108 - GUI support provided for many more features
1111 Other changes include:
1113 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1116 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1117 improved in the process
1119 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1120 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1121 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1123 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1126 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1127 "shelfful", or many german words
1129 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1130 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1131 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1132 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1134 - Updated documentation
1136 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1139 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1141 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1143 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1145 - Babel can be disabled
1147 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1149 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1150 ------------------------------------
1152 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1156 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1158 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1159 appears to be more suitable.
1161 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1162 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1164 - add support for dvipdfm
1166 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1167 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1169 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1172 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1174 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1177 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1179 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1182 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1183 ------------------------------------
1185 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1189 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1192 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1193 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1195 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1198 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1199 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1201 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1202 Theoretical Computer Science
1204 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1206 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1207 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1209 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1210 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1211 with the older version
1214 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1215 ------------------------------------
1217 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1221 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1223 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1224 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1225 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1227 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1228 documentation update.
1230 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1233 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1234 ------------------------------------
1236 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1240 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1241 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1243 - better support for ukrainian language
1245 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1246 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1248 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1249 line-delete-forward.
1251 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1253 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1256 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1257 --------------------------------
1259 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1260 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1261 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1263 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1264 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1265 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1266 from the older development version:
1268 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1269 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1270 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1271 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1272 have been overhauled.
1274 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1277 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1278 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1280 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1282 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1283 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1284 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1286 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1288 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1289 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1290 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1291 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1292 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1293 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1294 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1296 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1297 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1298 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1301 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1302 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1303 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1304 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1305 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1306 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1308 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1309 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1310 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1311 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1312 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1314 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1316 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1318 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1319 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1320 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1321 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1322 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1323 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1325 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1327 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1330 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1331 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1333 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1334 mentioned here for your information
1336 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1337 (this can be changed in preferences).
1339 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1344 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1345 --------------------------------
1347 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1348 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1349 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1351 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1352 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1354 User-visible changes:
1356 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1358 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1360 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1362 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1364 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1365 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1367 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1368 command-line/window:
1369 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1371 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1372 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1374 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1376 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1378 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1380 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1381 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1382 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1383 (And you probably had the error always.)
1385 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1387 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1388 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1390 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1392 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1393 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1394 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1395 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1397 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1399 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1400 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1402 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1403 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1405 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1406 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1407 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1408 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1411 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1412 --------------------------------
1414 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1415 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1416 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1419 In the user-visible department, we find:
1421 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1422 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1423 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1424 the GUI pops up during the process...
1426 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1428 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1429 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1431 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1432 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1433 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1434 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1436 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1439 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1440 --------------------------------
1442 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1443 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1445 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1446 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1447 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1449 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1450 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1453 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1456 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1458 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1459 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1460 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1461 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1462 for the sake of correctness.
1464 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1465 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1467 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1468 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1470 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1472 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1474 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1476 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1477 --------------------------------
1479 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1481 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1482 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1483 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1485 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1487 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1489 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1491 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1492 has also been fixed.
1494 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1495 --------------------------------
1497 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1498 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1499 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1500 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1501 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1502 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1504 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1506 - New export to HTML feature
1508 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1510 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1511 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1512 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1514 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1515 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1516 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1518 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1519 --------------------------------------------------
1521 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1522 new features has been included:
1528 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1530 - Several language files updated.
1532 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1534 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1535 --------------------------------------------------
1537 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1539 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1542 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1544 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1546 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1547 --------------------------------------------------
1549 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1550 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1552 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1554 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1555 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1557 - Better multipart document support.
1559 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1562 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1565 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1566 --------------------------------------------------
1568 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1569 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1571 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1573 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1575 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1577 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1579 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1583 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1584 ----------------------------------------------------
1586 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1587 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1589 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1590 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1591 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1592 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1593 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1595 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1596 footnotes, and generally better output.
1598 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1599 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1600 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1601 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1602 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1604 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1605 and error message translations) for several languages.
1607 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1608 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1609 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1611 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1613 - Improved table support.
1615 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1617 - easier handling of index entries.
1619 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1620 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1621 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1622 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1625 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1626 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as