1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
11 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
12 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
15 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
16 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
19 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
20 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
21 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
23 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
26 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
31 Note that another consequence of this change is that older LyX version
32 will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX 1.2.0.
35 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
37 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
38 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
39 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
42 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
46 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
47 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
50 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
52 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
53 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
54 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
56 - support for many amsmath features
57 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
58 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
59 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
60 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
63 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
65 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
67 - Improvements to the parser
69 - Improvements to math text mode
71 - (Better) support for nested macros
73 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
75 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
77 - GUI support provided for many more features
80 Other changes include:
82 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
85 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
86 improved in the process
88 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
89 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
90 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
92 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
95 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
96 "shelfful", or many german words
98 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
99 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
100 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
101 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
103 - Updated documentation
105 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
107 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
109 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
111 - Babel can be disabled when using the default language
113 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
116 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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119 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
120 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
121 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
123 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
124 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
125 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
126 from the older development version:
128 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
129 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
130 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
131 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
132 have been overhauled.
134 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
137 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
138 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
140 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
142 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
143 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
144 will give you an idea of what is happening.
146 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
148 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
149 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
150 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
151 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
152 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
153 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
154 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
156 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
157 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
158 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
161 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
162 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
163 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
164 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
165 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
166 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
168 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
169 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
170 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
171 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
172 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
174 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
176 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
178 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
179 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
180 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
181 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
182 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
183 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
185 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
187 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
190 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
191 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
193 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
194 mentioned here for your information
196 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
197 (this can be changed in preferences).
199 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
204 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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207 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
208 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
209 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
211 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
212 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
214 User-visible changes:
216 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
218 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
220 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
222 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
224 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
225 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
227 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
229 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
231 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
232 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
234 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
236 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
238 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
240 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
241 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
242 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
243 (And you probably had the error always.)
245 - Better definition for LyXList style.
247 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
248 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
250 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
252 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
253 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
254 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
255 support is of course not supported in older versions.
257 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
259 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
260 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
262 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
263 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
265 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
266 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
267 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
268 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
271 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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274 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
275 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
276 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
279 In the user-visible department, we find:
281 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
282 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
283 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
284 the GUI pops up during the process...
286 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
288 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
289 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
291 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
292 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
293 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
294 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
296 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
299 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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302 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
303 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
305 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
306 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
307 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
309 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
310 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
313 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
316 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
318 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
319 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
320 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
321 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
322 for the sake of correctness.
324 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
325 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
327 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
328 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
330 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
332 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
334 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
336 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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339 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
341 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
342 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
343 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
345 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
347 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
349 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
351 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
354 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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357 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
358 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
359 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
360 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
361 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
362 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
364 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
366 - New export to HTML feature
368 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
370 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
371 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
372 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
374 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
375 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
376 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
378 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
379 --------------------------------------------------
381 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
382 new features has been included:
388 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
390 - Several language files updated.
392 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
394 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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397 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
399 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
402 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
404 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
406 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
407 --------------------------------------------------
409 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
410 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
412 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
414 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
415 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
417 - Better multipart document support.
419 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
422 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
425 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
426 --------------------------------------------------
428 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
429 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
431 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
433 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
435 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
437 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
439 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
443 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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446 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
447 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
449 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
450 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
451 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
452 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
453 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
455 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
456 footnotes, and generally better output.
458 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
459 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
460 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
461 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
462 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
464 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
465 and error message translations) for several languages.
467 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
468 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
469 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
471 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
473 - Improved table support.
475 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
477 - easier handling of index entries.
479 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
480 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
481 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
482 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
485 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
486 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as