1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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4 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
5 We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
6 this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
8 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
9 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
13 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
15 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
17 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
19 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
21 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
22 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
24 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
26 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
28 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
29 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
31 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
33 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
35 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
37 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
38 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
39 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
40 (And you probably had the error always.)
42 - Better definition for LyXList style.
44 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
45 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
47 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
49 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
50 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
51 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
52 support is of course not supported in older versions.
54 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
56 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
57 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
59 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
60 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
62 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
63 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
64 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
65 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
68 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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71 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
72 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
73 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
76 In the user-visible department, we find:
78 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
79 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
80 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
81 the GUI pops up during the process...
83 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
85 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
86 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
88 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
89 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
90 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
91 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
93 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
96 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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99 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
100 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
102 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
103 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
104 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
106 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
107 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
110 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
113 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
115 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
116 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
117 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
118 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
119 for the sake of correctness.
121 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
122 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
124 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
125 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
127 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
129 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
131 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
133 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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136 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
138 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
139 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
140 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
142 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
144 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
146 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
148 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
151 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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154 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
155 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
156 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
157 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
158 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
159 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
161 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
163 - New export to HTML feature
165 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
167 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
168 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
169 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
171 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
172 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
173 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
175 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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178 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
179 new features has been included:
185 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
187 - Several language files updated.
189 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
191 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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194 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
196 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
199 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
201 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
203 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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206 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
207 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
209 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
211 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
212 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
214 - Better multipart document support.
216 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
219 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
222 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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225 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
226 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
228 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
230 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
232 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
234 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
236 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
240 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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243 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
244 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
246 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
247 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
248 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
249 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
250 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
252 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
253 footnotes, and generally better output.
255 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
256 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
257 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
258 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
259 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
261 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
262 and error message translations) for several languages.
264 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
265 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
266 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
268 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
270 - Improved table support.
272 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
274 - easier handling of index entries.
276 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
277 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
278 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
279 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
282 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
283 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as