1 What's new in version 2.3.2?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
6 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
7 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
8 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
9 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
10 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
11 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental. Please see below
15 What's new in version 2.3.1?
16 ----------------------------
18 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
20 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
21 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
22 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
24 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
25 python 2.x and python 3.x.
27 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
28 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
29 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
30 using the default keybindings).
33 What's new in version 2.3.0?
34 ----------------------------
36 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
37 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
40 * Multiple bibliographies
42 * Quotation marks enhancements
43 * Updates to reference handling
44 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
46 * New supported languages
47 * New supported LaTeX commands
48 * New template for Inkscape drawings
49 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
51 * Localization of nomenclature
52 * New translations of the LyX user interface
53 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
54 * Automatic detection of file changes
55 * Citation & reference dialogs
56 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
57 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
58 * Outliner and navigation menu
59 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
61 * Code preview & highlighting
64 What's new in version 2.2.3?
65 ----------------------------
67 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
69 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
70 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
71 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
72 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
75 What's new in version 2.2.2?
76 ----------------------------
78 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
80 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
81 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
82 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
84 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
85 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
87 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
88 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
89 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
90 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
94 What's new in version 2.2.1?
95 ----------------------------
97 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
99 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
100 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
101 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
102 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
103 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
106 What's new in version 2.2.0?
107 ----------------------------
109 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
110 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
112 * HiDPI display support
114 * New text display algorithm
115 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
116 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
117 * Improved text color support
118 * Improved box dialog
119 * Improved table context menu
120 * Reworked instant preview
121 * Enhanced source panel
122 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
123 * Enhanced language support
124 * New supported languages
125 * New supported LaTeX commands
126 * Layout enhancements
127 * Module enhancements
128 * New preferences settings
132 What's new in version 2.1.5?
133 ----------------------------
135 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
136 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
138 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
139 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
140 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
143 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
144 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
145 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
146 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
149 What's new in version 2.1.4?
150 ----------------------------
152 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
154 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
155 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
156 to upgrade to this version.
159 What's new in version 2.1.3?
160 ----------------------------
162 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
164 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
165 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
166 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
169 What's new in version 2.1.2?
170 ----------------------------
172 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
174 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
175 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
176 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
177 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
178 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
179 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
182 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
183 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
184 of older beamer documents easier.
187 What's new in version 2.1.1?
188 ----------------------------
190 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
191 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
192 release announcement for the details.
194 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
195 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
196 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
197 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
198 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
199 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
201 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
202 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
203 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
205 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
206 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
207 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
208 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
211 What's new in version 2.1.0?
212 ----------------------------
214 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
215 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
217 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
218 * New supported languages
219 * Tex Fonts Additions
220 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
221 * Document class categories
222 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
223 * New supported LaTeX commands
224 * New export command-line option
226 * Layout enhancements
228 * Equation Editor "mode"
231 What's new in version 2.0.8?
232 ----------------------------
234 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
235 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
236 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
238 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
239 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
240 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
241 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
242 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
243 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
246 What's new in version 2.0.7?
247 ----------------------------
249 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
250 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
251 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
252 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
255 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
256 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
259 What's new in version 2.0.6?
260 ----------------------------
262 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
263 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
264 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
267 What's new in version 2.0.5?
268 ----------------------------
270 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
271 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
272 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
273 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
276 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
277 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
278 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
279 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
280 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
281 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
282 - Menu functions are unchanged.
285 What's new in version 2.0.4?
286 ----------------------------
288 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
289 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
290 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
291 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
292 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
293 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
296 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
297 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
298 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
299 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
300 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
302 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
303 will continue for 2.0.5.
306 What's new in version 2.0.3?
307 ----------------------------
309 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
310 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
312 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
313 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
314 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
315 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
316 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
318 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
319 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
322 What's new in version 2.0.2?
323 ----------------------------
325 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
326 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
327 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
329 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
330 below for the details.
332 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
335 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
336 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
337 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
338 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
339 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
342 What's new in version 2.0.1?
343 ----------------------------
345 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
346 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
347 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
348 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
349 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
350 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
354 What's new in version 2.0.0?
355 ----------------------------
357 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
358 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
360 * Advanced Search Facility
361 * Spell-checking on the Fly
362 * Compare Documents Feature
364 * Multilingual Thesaurus
366 * Multiple Indices Support
367 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
368 * Enhanced Instant Preview
369 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
370 * Enhanced Version Control Features
371 * Typesetting in background
374 What's new in version 1.6.10?
375 ------------------------------
376 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
377 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
378 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
379 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
380 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
384 What's new in version 1.6.9?
385 -----------------------------
387 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
388 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
389 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
390 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
393 What's new in version 1.6.8?
394 -----------------------------
396 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
397 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
398 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
399 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
402 What's new in version 1.6.7?
403 -----------------------------
405 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
406 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
407 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
408 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
412 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
413 ------------------------------
415 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
416 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
417 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
418 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
421 What's new in version 1.6.6?
422 -----------------------------
424 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
425 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
426 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
427 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
428 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
429 spelling in parallel).
432 What's new in version 1.6.5?
433 -----------------------------
435 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
436 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
437 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
438 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
439 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
442 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
443 -------------------------------
445 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
446 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
449 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
450 -------------------------------
452 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
453 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
454 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
457 What's new in version 1.6.4?
458 -------------------------------
460 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
461 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
464 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
465 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
466 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
467 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
468 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
469 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
470 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
471 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
474 What's new in version 1.6.3?
475 -------------------------------
477 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
478 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
480 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
481 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
482 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
483 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
485 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
486 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
487 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
488 compiled against Qt 4.5.
491 What's new in version 1.6.2?
492 -------------------------------
494 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
495 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
496 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
497 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
498 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
499 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
500 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
503 What's new in version 1.6.1?
504 -------------------------------
506 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
507 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
508 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
512 What's new in version 1.6.0?
513 -------------------------------
515 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
516 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
518 * Multiple Work Areas
520 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
522 * Layout combobox changes
523 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
524 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
526 * New implementation of math macros
531 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
532 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
533 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
538 * Graphics parameters groups
539 * LyX functions manual
540 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
543 What's new in version 1.5.7?
544 ----------------------------
546 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
547 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
548 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
549 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
550 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
551 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
554 What's new in version 1.5.6?
555 ----------------------------
557 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
558 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
559 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
560 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
563 What's new in version 1.5.5?
564 ----------------------------
566 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
567 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
568 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
569 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
570 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
573 What's new in version 1.5.4?
574 ----------------------------
576 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
577 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
578 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
579 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
582 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
583 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
584 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
585 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
586 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
589 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
590 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
591 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
592 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
593 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
594 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
595 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
596 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
599 What's new in version 1.5.3?
600 ----------------------------
602 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
603 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
604 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
605 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
606 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
607 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
608 version also provides some new features.
611 What's new in version 1.5.2?
612 ----------------------------
614 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
615 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
616 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
617 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
620 What's new in version 1.5.1?
621 ----------------------------
623 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
624 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
625 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
626 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
627 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
629 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
632 What's new in version 1.5.0?
633 ----------------------------
635 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
636 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
637 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
641 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
642 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
643 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
644 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
645 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
646 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
647 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
648 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
649 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
650 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
653 * Integrated CJK support
655 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
656 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
657 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
659 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
660 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
661 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
662 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
666 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
667 have full user interface support.
669 * Multiple views of the same buffer
671 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
672 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
673 parts of it synchronously.
675 * Outliner and embedded TOC
677 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
678 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
679 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
680 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
684 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
685 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
686 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
687 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
688 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
689 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
693 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
694 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
697 * New Font Selection Interface
699 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
700 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
701 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
705 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
706 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
707 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
711 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
712 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
713 glossaries and fancy notations.
717 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
719 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
721 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
722 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
723 to the math toolbars.
724 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
725 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
729 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
730 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
731 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
732 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
733 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
734 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
735 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
736 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
739 * Change tracking enhancements
741 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
742 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
744 * Converter file cache
746 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
747 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
748 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
749 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
750 is enabled by default.
752 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
755 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
757 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
759 * Unified Windows installer
761 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
762 both installers are welcome.
766 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
767 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
768 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
770 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
771 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
773 * LaTeX-package support
775 LyX provides the following new document classes:
776 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
777 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
778 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
779 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
780 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
782 * Minor user interface improvements
784 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
786 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
787 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
788 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
790 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
792 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
793 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
794 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
795 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
796 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
797 even after the selection has been cleared.
799 * Limited support for local class and layout files
801 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
802 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
803 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
804 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
805 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
806 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
807 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
811 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
812 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
813 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
814 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
815 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
816 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
817 series has been to bring this speed back.
821 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
822 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
825 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
826 ------------------------------
828 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
829 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
832 What's new in version 1.4.5?
833 ----------------------------
835 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
836 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
837 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
838 python 2.3.4 or later).
841 What's new in version 1.4.4?
842 ----------------------------
844 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
846 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
847 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
849 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
850 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
852 *) Improved documentation.
854 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
857 What's new in version 1.4.3?
858 ----------------------------
860 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
861 support. Notable new features include:
863 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
864 installation anymore.
866 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
867 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
868 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
869 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
871 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
875 What's new in version 1.4.2?
876 ----------------------------
878 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
880 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
881 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
883 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
885 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
886 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
887 be compressed on disk or not.
889 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
890 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
891 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
894 What's new in version 1.4.1?
895 ----------------------------
897 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
899 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
900 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
902 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
905 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
907 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
909 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
910 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
913 What's new in version 1.4.0?
914 ----------------------------
916 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
917 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
918 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
920 ** Improved user interface
922 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
923 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
924 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
925 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
926 classic UI) is still available, for now.
928 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
929 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
930 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
931 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
932 available: one for tables, and one for math.
934 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
935 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
940 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
941 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
942 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
945 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
947 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
948 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
949 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
950 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
954 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
955 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
956 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
957 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
963 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
964 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
965 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
967 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
968 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
969 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
971 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
973 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
974 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
979 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
980 the Insert>Note menu:
982 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
983 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
985 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
986 well, greyed-out text.
988 ** Better language and numbering on screen
990 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
992 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
993 the language of the document, which may be different from the
994 language of the menus;
995 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
996 document class specifications.
1000 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1001 count of the document or of the current selection.
1005 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1006 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1008 ** Improved bibliography support
1010 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1011 "before citation" field is supported;
1012 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1013 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1015 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1016 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1017 index processor is invoked).
1019 ** Improved microtypography support
1021 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1023 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1024 between "e." and "g.");
1025 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1026 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1027 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1028 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1029 much space between figure/table and caption.
1033 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1035 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1038 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1039 edit the included figure
1041 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1042 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1046 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1047 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1050 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1051 ----------------------------
1053 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1054 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1057 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1058 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1060 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1061 installer and in the handling of file names.
1063 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1066 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1067 ----------------------------
1069 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1071 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1072 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1073 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1074 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1075 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1076 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1077 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1079 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1080 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1081 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1083 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1084 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1085 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1086 considered as part of words
1090 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1091 ----------------------------
1093 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1094 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1095 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1096 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1097 case where the files are in different directories.
1098 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1100 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1101 ----------------------------
1103 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1105 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1106 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1107 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1108 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1110 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1111 * The interface and documentation localization have
1114 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1115 ----------------------------
1117 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1119 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1120 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1121 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1122 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1123 the user interface and documentation.
1125 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1126 ----------------------------
1128 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1130 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1132 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1133 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1136 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1137 ----------------------------
1139 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1140 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1141 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1142 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1143 improvements) for good measure.
1147 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1148 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1150 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1151 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1153 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1154 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1155 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1156 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1159 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1160 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1161 (documentation has been updated too)
1163 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1164 spanish translation of menus
1166 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1167 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1168 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1170 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1171 ----------------------------
1173 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1174 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1175 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1176 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1177 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1179 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1180 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1181 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1185 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1186 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1187 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1188 functionally equivalent.
1190 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1191 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1192 symbols displayed properly.
1196 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1197 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1198 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1203 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1204 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1205 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1206 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1207 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1208 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1209 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1210 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1211 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1212 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1216 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1217 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1218 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1219 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1220 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1221 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1222 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1223 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1224 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1225 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1226 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1227 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1228 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1229 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1230 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1232 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1233 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1235 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1236 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1237 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1238 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1239 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1241 ** Reading old files
1243 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1244 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1245 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1246 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1248 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1249 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1250 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1251 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1253 ** Miscellaneous changes
1255 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1256 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1257 configure your font server).
1259 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1260 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1263 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1264 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1267 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1268 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1269 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1273 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1274 ----------------------------
1276 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1277 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1278 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1279 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1283 - updated italian User Guide
1285 - updated french localization
1288 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1289 ----------------------------
1291 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1292 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1297 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1298 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1299 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1301 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1302 when dragging the mouse)
1304 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1305 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1306 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1309 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1310 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1311 who are not aware that it is needed
1313 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1314 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1316 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1317 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1319 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1321 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1323 - update sciword bindings
1325 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1326 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1328 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1332 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1333 ----------------------------
1335 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1336 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1337 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1338 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1343 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1344 when this gets released)
1346 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1347 the performance problems
1349 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1351 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1352 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1353 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1355 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1358 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1359 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1360 help entering of ERT insets)
1362 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1364 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1366 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1368 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1369 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1372 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1374 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1377 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1378 line and have this file created for you
1380 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1381 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1384 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1385 ----------------------------
1387 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1388 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1389 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1390 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1391 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1394 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1395 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1398 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1399 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1402 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1403 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1404 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1406 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1409 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1410 appear in the output.
1412 - New minipage inset
1414 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1415 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1419 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1421 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1422 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1423 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1426 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1430 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1431 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1432 process, among which:
1434 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1436 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1437 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1438 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1440 - support for many amsmath features
1441 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1442 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1443 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1444 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1447 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1449 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1451 - Improvements to the parser
1453 - Improvements to math text mode
1455 - (Better) support for nested macros
1457 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1459 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1461 - GUI support provided for many more features
1464 Other changes include:
1466 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1469 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1470 improved in the process
1472 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1473 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1474 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1476 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1479 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1480 "shelfful", or many german words
1482 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1483 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1484 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1485 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1487 - Updated documentation
1489 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1492 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1494 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1496 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1498 - Babel can be disabled
1500 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1502 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1503 ------------------------------------
1505 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1509 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1511 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1512 appears to be more suitable.
1514 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1515 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1517 - add support for dvipdfm
1519 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1520 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1522 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1525 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1527 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1530 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1532 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1535 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1536 ------------------------------------
1538 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1542 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1545 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1546 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1548 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1551 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1552 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1554 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1555 Theoretical Computer Science
1557 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1559 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1560 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1562 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1563 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1564 with the older version
1567 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1568 ------------------------------------
1570 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1574 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1576 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1577 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1578 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1580 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1581 documentation update.
1583 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1586 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1587 ------------------------------------
1589 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1593 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1594 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1596 - better support for ukrainian language
1598 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1599 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1601 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1602 line-delete-forward.
1604 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1606 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1609 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1610 --------------------------------
1612 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1613 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1614 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1616 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1617 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1618 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1619 from the older development version:
1621 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1622 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1623 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1624 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1625 have been overhauled.
1627 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1630 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1631 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1633 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1635 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1636 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1637 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1639 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1641 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1642 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1643 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1644 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1645 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1646 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1647 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1649 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1650 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1651 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1654 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1655 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1656 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1657 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1658 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1659 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1661 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1662 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1663 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1664 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1665 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1667 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1669 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1671 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1672 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1673 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1674 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1675 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1676 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1678 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1680 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1683 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1684 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1686 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1687 mentioned here for your information
1689 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1690 (this can be changed in preferences).
1692 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1697 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1698 --------------------------------
1700 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1701 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1702 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1704 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1705 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1707 User-visible changes:
1709 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1711 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1713 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1715 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1717 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1718 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1720 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1721 command-line/window:
1722 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1724 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1725 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1727 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1729 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1731 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1733 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1734 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1735 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1736 (And you probably had the error always.)
1738 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1740 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1741 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1743 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1745 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1746 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1747 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1748 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1750 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1752 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1753 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1755 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1756 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1758 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1759 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1760 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1761 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1764 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1765 --------------------------------
1767 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1768 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1769 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1772 In the user-visible department, we find:
1774 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1775 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1776 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1777 the GUI pops up during the process...
1779 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1781 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1782 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1784 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1785 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1786 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1787 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1789 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1792 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1793 --------------------------------
1795 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1796 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1798 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1799 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1800 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1802 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1803 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1806 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1809 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1811 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1812 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1813 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1814 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1815 for the sake of correctness.
1817 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1818 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1820 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1821 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1823 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1825 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1827 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1829 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1830 --------------------------------
1832 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1834 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1835 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1836 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1838 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1840 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1842 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1844 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1845 has also been fixed.
1847 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1848 --------------------------------
1850 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1851 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1852 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1853 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1854 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1855 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1857 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1859 - New export to HTML feature
1861 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1863 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1864 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1865 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1867 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1868 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1869 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1871 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1872 --------------------------------------------------
1874 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1875 new features has been included:
1881 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1883 - Several language files updated.
1885 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1887 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1888 --------------------------------------------------
1890 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1892 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1895 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1897 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1899 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1900 --------------------------------------------------
1902 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1903 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1905 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1907 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1908 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1910 - Better multipart document support.
1912 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1915 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1918 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1919 --------------------------------------------------
1921 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1922 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1924 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1926 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1928 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1930 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1932 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1936 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1937 ----------------------------------------------------
1939 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1940 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1942 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1943 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1944 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1945 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1946 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1948 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1949 footnotes, and generally better output.
1951 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1952 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1953 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1954 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1955 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1957 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1958 and error message translations) for several languages.
1960 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1961 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1962 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1964 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1966 - Improved table support.
1968 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1970 - easier handling of index entries.
1972 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1973 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1974 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1975 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1978 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1979 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as