1 What's new in version 1.4.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
5 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
6 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
8 ** Improved user interface
10 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
11 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
12 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
13 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
14 classic UI) is still available, for now.
16 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
17 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
18 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
19 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
20 available: one for tables, and one for math.
22 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
23 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
28 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
29 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
30 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
33 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
35 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
36 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
37 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
38 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
42 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
43 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
44 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
45 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
51 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
52 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
53 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
55 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
56 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
57 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
59 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
61 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
62 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
67 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
70 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
71 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
73 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
74 well, greyed-out text.
76 ** Better language and numbering on screen
78 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
80 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
81 the language of the document, which may be different from the
82 language of the menus;
83 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
84 document class specifications.
88 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
89 count of the document or of the current selection.
93 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
94 of errors popping up at compilation time.
96 ** Improved bibliography support
98 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
99 "before citation" field is supported;
100 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
101 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
103 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
104 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
105 index processor is invoked).
107 ** Improved microtypography support
109 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
111 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
112 between "e." and "g.");
113 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
114 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
115 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
116 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
117 much space between figure/table and caption.
121 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
123 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
126 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
127 edit the included figure
129 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
130 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
134 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
135 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
138 What's new in version 1.3.7?
139 ----------------------------
141 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
142 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
145 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
146 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
148 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
149 installer and in the handling of file names.
151 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
154 What's new in version 1.3.6?
155 ----------------------------
157 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
159 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
160 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
161 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
162 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
163 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
164 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
165 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
167 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
168 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
169 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
171 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
172 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
173 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
174 considered as part of words
178 What's new in version 1.3.5?
179 ----------------------------
181 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
182 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
183 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
184 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
185 case where the files are in different directories.
186 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
188 What's new in version 1.3.4?
189 ----------------------------
191 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
193 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
194 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
195 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
196 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
198 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
199 * The interface and documentation localization have
202 What's new in version 1.3.3?
203 ----------------------------
205 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
207 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
208 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
209 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
210 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
211 the user interface and documentation.
213 What's new in version 1.3.2?
214 ----------------------------
216 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
218 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
220 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
221 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
224 What's new in version 1.3.1?
225 ----------------------------
227 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
228 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
229 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
230 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
231 improvements) for good measure.
235 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
236 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
238 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
239 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
241 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
242 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
243 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
244 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
247 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
248 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
249 (documentation has been updated too)
251 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
252 spanish translation of menus
254 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
255 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
256 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
258 What's new in version 1.3.0?
259 ----------------------------
261 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
262 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
263 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
264 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
265 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
267 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
268 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
269 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
273 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
274 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
275 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
276 functionally equivalent.
278 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
279 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
280 symbols displayed properly.
284 The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
285 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
286 implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
287 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
289 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
290 version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
291 General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
292 many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
293 are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
294 In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
296 In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
297 invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
298 Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
299 highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
300 feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
304 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
305 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
306 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
311 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
312 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
313 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
314 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
315 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
316 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
317 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
318 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
319 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
320 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
324 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
325 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
326 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
327 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
328 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
329 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
330 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
331 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
332 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
333 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
334 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
335 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
336 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
337 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
338 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
340 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
341 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
343 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
344 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
345 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
346 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
347 the inset and press 'backspace'.
351 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
352 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
353 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
354 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
356 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
357 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
358 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
359 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
361 ** Miscellaneous changes
363 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
364 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
365 configure your font server).
367 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
368 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
371 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
372 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
375 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
376 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
377 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
381 What's new in version 1.2.3?
382 ----------------------------
384 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
385 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
386 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
387 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
391 - updated italian User Guide
393 - updated french localization
396 What's new in version 1.2.2?
397 ----------------------------
399 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
400 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
405 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
406 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
407 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
409 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
410 when dragging the mouse)
412 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
413 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
414 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
417 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
418 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
419 who are not aware that it is needed
421 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
422 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
424 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
425 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
427 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
429 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
431 - update sciword bindings
433 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
434 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
436 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
440 What's new in version 1.2.1?
441 ----------------------------
443 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
444 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
445 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
446 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
451 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
452 when this gets released)
454 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
455 the performance problems
457 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
459 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
460 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
461 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
463 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
466 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
467 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
468 help entering of ERT insets)
470 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
472 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
474 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
476 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
477 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
480 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
482 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
485 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
486 line and have this file created for you
488 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
489 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
492 What's new in version 1.2.0?
493 ----------------------------
495 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
496 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
497 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
498 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
499 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
502 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
503 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
506 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
507 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
510 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
511 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
512 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
514 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
517 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
518 appear in the output.
522 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
523 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
527 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
529 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
530 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
531 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
534 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
538 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
539 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
540 process, among which:
542 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
544 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
545 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
546 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
548 - support for many amsmath features
549 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
550 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
551 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
552 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
555 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
557 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
559 - Improvements to the parser
561 - Improvements to math text mode
563 - (Better) support for nested macros
565 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
567 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
569 - GUI support provided for many more features
572 Other changes include:
574 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
577 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
578 improved in the process
580 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
581 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
582 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
584 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
587 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
588 "shelfful", or many german words
590 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
591 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
592 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
593 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
595 - Updated documentation
597 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
600 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
602 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
604 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
606 - Babel can be disabled
608 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
610 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
611 ------------------------------------
613 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
617 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
619 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
620 appears to be more suitable.
622 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
623 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
625 - add support for dvipdfm
627 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
628 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
630 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
633 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
635 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
638 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
640 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
643 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
644 ------------------------------------
646 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
650 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
653 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
654 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
656 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
659 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
660 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
662 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
663 Theoretical Computer Science
665 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
667 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
668 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
670 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
671 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
672 with the older version
675 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
676 ------------------------------------
678 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
682 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
684 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
685 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
686 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
688 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
689 documentation update.
691 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
694 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
695 ------------------------------------
697 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
701 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
702 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
704 - better support for ukrainian language
706 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
707 working --with-lyx-suffix.
709 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
712 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
714 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
717 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
718 --------------------------------
720 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
721 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
722 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
724 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
725 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
726 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
727 from the older development version:
729 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
730 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
731 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
732 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
733 have been overhauled.
735 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
738 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
739 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
741 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
743 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
744 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
745 will give you an idea of what is happening.
747 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
749 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
750 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
751 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
752 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
753 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
754 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
755 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
757 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
758 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
759 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
762 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
763 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
764 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
765 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
766 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
767 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
769 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
770 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
771 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
772 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
773 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
775 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
777 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
779 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
780 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
781 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
782 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
783 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
784 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
786 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
788 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
791 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
792 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
794 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
795 mentioned here for your information
797 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
798 (this can be changed in preferences).
800 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
805 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
806 --------------------------------
808 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
809 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
810 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
812 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
813 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
815 User-visible changes:
817 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
819 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
821 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
823 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
825 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
826 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
828 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
830 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
832 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
833 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
835 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
837 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
839 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
841 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
842 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
843 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
844 (And you probably had the error always.)
846 - Better definition for LyXList style.
848 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
849 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
851 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
853 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
854 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
855 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
856 support is of course not supported in older versions.
858 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
860 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
861 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
863 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
864 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
866 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
867 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
868 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
869 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
872 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
873 --------------------------------
875 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
876 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
877 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
880 In the user-visible department, we find:
882 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
883 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
884 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
885 the GUI pops up during the process...
887 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
889 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
890 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
892 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
893 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
894 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
895 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
897 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
900 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
901 --------------------------------
903 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
904 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
906 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
907 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
908 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
910 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
911 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
914 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
917 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
919 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
920 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
921 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
922 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
923 for the sake of correctness.
925 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
926 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
928 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
929 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
931 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
933 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
935 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
937 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
938 --------------------------------
940 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
942 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
943 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
944 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
946 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
948 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
950 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
952 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
955 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
956 --------------------------------
958 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
959 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
960 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
961 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
962 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
963 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
965 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
967 - New export to HTML feature
969 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
971 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
972 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
973 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
975 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
976 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
977 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
979 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
980 --------------------------------------------------
982 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
983 new features has been included:
989 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
991 - Several language files updated.
993 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
995 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
996 --------------------------------------------------
998 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1000 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1003 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1005 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1007 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1008 --------------------------------------------------
1010 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1011 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1013 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1015 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1016 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1018 - Better multipart document support.
1020 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1023 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1026 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1027 --------------------------------------------------
1029 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1030 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1032 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1034 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1036 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1038 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1040 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1044 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1045 ----------------------------------------------------
1047 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1048 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1050 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1051 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1052 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1053 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1054 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1056 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1057 footnotes, and generally better output.
1059 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1060 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1061 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1062 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1063 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1065 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1066 and error message translations) for several languages.
1068 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1069 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1070 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1072 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1074 - Improved table support.
1076 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1078 - easier handling of index entries.
1080 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1081 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1082 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1083 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1086 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1087 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as