1 What's new in version 2.3.7?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 2.3.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
5 more reliable and more stable. Since it has been quite a long time (for
6 unsurprising reasons) since the last update, this one contains more fixes
7 than usual. We have fixed a number of crashes.
9 What's new in version 2.3.6?
10 ----------------------------
12 LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
13 result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
14 more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
15 but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
17 One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
18 new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
19 possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
20 table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
23 What's new in version 2.3.5?
24 ----------------------------
26 LyX 2.3.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
28 LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
29 reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a
30 few important bugs have now been fixed.
32 One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected
33 and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported
34 configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete
35 (and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed.
38 What's new in version 2.3.4?
39 ----------------------------
41 LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
43 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
44 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
45 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
46 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
47 Dropbox folders and another involving missing included files.
50 What's new in version 2.3.3?
51 ----------------------------
53 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
55 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
56 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
57 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
58 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
59 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
60 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
63 What's new in version 2.3.2?
64 ----------------------------
66 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
68 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
69 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
70 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
71 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
72 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
73 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental.
76 What's new in version 2.3.1?
77 ----------------------------
79 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
81 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
82 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
83 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
85 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
86 python 2.x and python 3.x.
88 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
89 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
90 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
91 using the default keybindings).
94 What's new in version 2.3.0?
95 ----------------------------
97 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
98 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
101 * Multiple bibliographies
103 * Quotation marks enhancements
104 * Updates to reference handling
105 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
107 * New supported languages
108 * New supported LaTeX commands
109 * New template for Inkscape drawings
110 * Handling of environments (e.g. beamer frames)
111 * Footnotes in tables
112 * Localization of nomenclature
113 * New translations of the LyX user interface
114 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
115 * Automatic detection of file changes
116 * Citation & reference dialogs
117 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
118 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
119 * Outliner and navigation menu
120 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
122 * Code preview & highlighting
125 What's new in version 2.2.3?
126 ----------------------------
128 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
130 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
131 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
132 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
133 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
136 What's new in version 2.2.2?
137 ----------------------------
139 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
141 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
142 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
143 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
145 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
146 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
148 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
149 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
150 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
151 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
155 What's new in version 2.2.1?
156 ----------------------------
158 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
160 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
161 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
162 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
163 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
164 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
167 What's new in version 2.2.0?
168 ----------------------------
170 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
171 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
173 * HiDPI display support
175 * New text display algorithm
176 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
177 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
178 * Improved text color support
179 * Improved box dialog
180 * Improved table context menu
181 * Reworked instant preview
182 * Enhanced source panel
183 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
184 * Enhanced language support
185 * New supported languages
186 * New supported LaTeX commands
187 * Layout enhancements
188 * Module enhancements
189 * New preferences settings
193 What's new in version 2.1.5?
194 ----------------------------
196 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
197 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
199 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
200 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
201 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
204 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
205 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
206 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
207 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
210 What's new in version 2.1.4?
211 ----------------------------
213 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
215 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
216 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
217 to upgrade to this version.
220 What's new in version 2.1.3?
221 ----------------------------
223 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
225 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
226 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
227 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
230 What's new in version 2.1.2?
231 ----------------------------
233 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
235 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
236 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
237 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
238 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
239 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
240 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
243 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
244 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
245 of older beamer documents easier.
248 What's new in version 2.1.1?
249 ----------------------------
251 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
252 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
253 release announcement for the details.
255 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
256 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
257 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
258 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
259 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
260 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
262 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
263 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
264 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
266 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
267 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
268 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
269 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
272 What's new in version 2.1.0?
273 ----------------------------
275 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
276 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
278 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
279 * New supported languages
280 * Tex Fonts Additions
281 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
282 * Document class categories
283 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
284 * New supported LaTeX commands
285 * New export command-line option
287 * Layout enhancements
289 * Equation Editor "mode"
292 What's new in version 2.0.8?
293 ----------------------------
295 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
296 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
297 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
299 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
300 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
301 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
302 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
303 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
304 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
307 What's new in version 2.0.7?
308 ----------------------------
310 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
311 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
312 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
313 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
316 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
317 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
320 What's new in version 2.0.6?
321 ----------------------------
323 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
324 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
325 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
328 What's new in version 2.0.5?
329 ----------------------------
331 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
332 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
333 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
334 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
337 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
338 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
339 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
340 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
341 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
342 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
343 - Menu functions are unchanged.
346 What's new in version 2.0.4?
347 ----------------------------
349 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
350 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
351 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
352 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
353 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
354 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
357 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
358 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
359 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
360 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
361 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
363 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
364 will continue for 2.0.5.
367 What's new in version 2.0.3?
368 ----------------------------
370 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
371 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
373 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
374 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
375 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
376 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
377 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
379 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
380 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
383 What's new in version 2.0.2?
384 ----------------------------
386 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
387 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
388 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
390 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
391 below for the details.
393 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
396 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
397 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
398 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
399 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
400 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
403 What's new in version 2.0.1?
404 ----------------------------
406 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
407 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
408 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
409 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
410 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
411 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
415 What's new in version 2.0.0?
416 ----------------------------
418 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
419 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
421 * Advanced Search Facility
422 * Spell-checking on the Fly
423 * Compare Documents Feature
425 * Multilingual Thesaurus
427 * Multiple Indices Support
428 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
429 * Enhanced Instant Preview
430 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
431 * Enhanced Version Control Features
432 * Typesetting in background
435 What's new in version 1.6.10?
436 ------------------------------
437 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
438 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
439 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
440 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
441 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
445 What's new in version 1.6.9?
446 -----------------------------
448 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
449 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
450 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
451 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
454 What's new in version 1.6.8?
455 -----------------------------
457 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
458 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
459 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
460 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
463 What's new in version 1.6.7?
464 -----------------------------
466 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
467 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
468 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
469 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
473 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
474 ------------------------------
476 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
477 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
478 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
479 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
482 What's new in version 1.6.6?
483 -----------------------------
485 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
486 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
487 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
488 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
489 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
490 spelling in parallel).
493 What's new in version 1.6.5?
494 -----------------------------
496 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
497 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
498 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
499 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
500 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
503 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
504 -------------------------------
506 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
507 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
510 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
511 -------------------------------
513 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
514 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
515 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
518 What's new in version 1.6.4?
519 -------------------------------
521 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
522 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
525 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
526 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
527 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
528 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
529 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
530 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
531 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
532 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
535 What's new in version 1.6.3?
536 -------------------------------
538 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
539 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
541 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
542 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
543 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
544 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
546 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
547 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
548 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
549 compiled against Qt 4.5.
552 What's new in version 1.6.2?
553 -------------------------------
555 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
556 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
557 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
558 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
559 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
560 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
561 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
564 What's new in version 1.6.1?
565 -------------------------------
567 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
568 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
569 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
573 What's new in version 1.6.0?
574 -------------------------------
576 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
577 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
579 * Multiple Work Areas
581 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
583 * Layout combobox changes
584 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
585 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
587 * New implementation of math macros
592 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
593 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
594 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
599 * Graphics parameters groups
600 * LyX functions manual
601 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
604 What's new in version 1.5.7?
605 ----------------------------
607 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
608 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
609 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
610 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
611 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
612 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
615 What's new in version 1.5.6?
616 ----------------------------
618 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
619 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
620 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
621 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
624 What's new in version 1.5.5?
625 ----------------------------
627 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
628 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
629 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
630 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
631 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
634 What's new in version 1.5.4?
635 ----------------------------
637 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
638 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
639 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
640 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
643 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
644 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
645 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
646 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
647 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
650 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
651 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
652 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
653 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
654 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
655 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
656 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
657 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
660 What's new in version 1.5.3?
661 ----------------------------
663 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
664 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
665 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
666 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
667 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
668 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
669 version also provides some new features.
672 What's new in version 1.5.2?
673 ----------------------------
675 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
676 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
677 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
678 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
681 What's new in version 1.5.1?
682 ----------------------------
684 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
685 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
686 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
687 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
688 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
690 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
693 What's new in version 1.5.0?
694 ----------------------------
696 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
697 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
698 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
702 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
703 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
704 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
705 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
706 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
707 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
708 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
709 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
710 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
711 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
714 * Integrated CJK support
716 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
717 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
718 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
720 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
721 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
722 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
723 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
727 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
728 have full user interface support.
730 * Multiple views of the same buffer
732 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
733 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
734 parts of it synchronously.
736 * Outliner and embedded TOC
738 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
739 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
740 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
741 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
745 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
746 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
747 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
748 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
749 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
750 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
754 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
755 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
758 * New Font Selection Interface
760 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
761 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
762 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
766 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
767 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
768 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
772 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
773 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
774 glossaries and fancy notations.
778 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
780 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
782 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
783 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
784 to the math toolbars.
785 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
786 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
790 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
791 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
792 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
793 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
794 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
795 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
796 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
797 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
800 * Change tracking enhancements
802 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
803 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
805 * Converter file cache
807 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
808 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
809 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
810 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
811 is enabled by default.
813 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
816 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
818 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
820 * Unified Windows installer
822 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
823 both installers are welcome.
827 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
828 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
829 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
831 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
832 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
834 * LaTeX-package support
836 LyX provides the following new document classes:
837 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
838 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
839 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
840 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
841 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
843 * Minor user interface improvements
845 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
847 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
848 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
849 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
851 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
853 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
854 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
855 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
856 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
857 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
858 even after the selection has been cleared.
860 * Limited support for local class and layout files
862 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
863 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
864 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
865 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
866 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
867 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
868 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
872 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
873 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
874 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
875 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
876 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
877 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
878 series has been to bring this speed back.
882 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
883 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
886 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
887 ------------------------------
889 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
890 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
893 What's new in version 1.4.5?
894 ----------------------------
896 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
897 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
898 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
899 python 2.3.4 or later).
902 What's new in version 1.4.4?
903 ----------------------------
905 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
907 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
908 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
910 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
911 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
913 *) Improved documentation.
915 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
918 What's new in version 1.4.3?
919 ----------------------------
921 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
922 support. Notable new features include:
924 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
925 installation anymore.
927 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
928 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
929 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
930 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
932 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
936 What's new in version 1.4.2?
937 ----------------------------
939 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
941 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
942 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
944 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
946 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
947 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
948 be compressed on disk or not.
950 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
951 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
952 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
955 What's new in version 1.4.1?
956 ----------------------------
958 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
960 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
961 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
963 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
966 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
968 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
970 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
971 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
974 What's new in version 1.4.0?
975 ----------------------------
977 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
978 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
979 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
981 ** Improved user interface
983 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
984 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
985 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
986 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
987 classic UI) is still available, for now.
989 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
990 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
991 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
992 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
993 available: one for tables, and one for math.
995 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
996 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1001 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1002 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1003 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1006 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1008 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1009 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1010 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1011 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1015 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1016 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1017 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1018 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1024 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1025 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1026 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1028 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1029 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1030 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1032 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1034 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1035 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1040 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1041 the Insert>Note menu:
1043 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1044 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1046 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1047 well, greyed-out text.
1049 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1051 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1053 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1054 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1055 language of the menus;
1056 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1057 document class specifications.
1061 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1062 count of the document or of the current selection.
1066 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1067 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1069 ** Improved bibliography support
1071 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1072 "before citation" field is supported;
1073 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1074 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1076 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1077 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1078 index processor is invoked).
1080 ** Improved microtypography support
1082 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1084 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1085 between "e." and "g.");
1086 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1087 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1088 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1089 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1090 much space between figure/table and caption.
1094 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1096 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1099 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1100 edit the included figure
1102 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1103 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1107 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1108 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1111 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1112 ----------------------------
1114 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1115 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1118 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1119 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1121 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1122 installer and in the handling of file names.
1124 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1127 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1128 ----------------------------
1130 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1132 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1133 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1134 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1135 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1136 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1137 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1138 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1140 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1141 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1142 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1144 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1145 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1146 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1147 considered as part of words
1151 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1152 ----------------------------
1154 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1155 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1156 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1157 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1158 case where the files are in different directories.
1159 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1161 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1162 ----------------------------
1164 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1166 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1167 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1168 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1169 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1171 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1172 * The interface and documentation localization have
1175 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1176 ----------------------------
1178 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1180 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1181 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1182 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1183 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1184 the user interface and documentation.
1186 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1187 ----------------------------
1189 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1191 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1193 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1194 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1197 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1198 ----------------------------
1200 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1201 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1202 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1203 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1204 improvements) for good measure.
1208 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1209 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1211 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1212 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1214 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1215 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1216 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1217 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1220 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1221 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1222 (documentation has been updated too)
1224 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1225 spanish translation of menus
1227 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1228 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1229 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1231 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1232 ----------------------------
1234 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1235 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1236 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1237 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1238 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1240 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1241 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1242 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1246 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1247 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1248 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1249 functionally equivalent.
1251 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1252 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1253 symbols displayed properly.
1257 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1258 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1259 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1264 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1265 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1266 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1267 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1268 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1269 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1270 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1271 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1272 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1273 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1277 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1278 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1279 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1280 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1281 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1282 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1283 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1284 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1285 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1286 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1287 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1288 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1289 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1290 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1291 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1293 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1294 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1296 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1297 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1298 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1299 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1300 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1302 ** Reading old files
1304 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1305 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1306 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1307 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1309 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1310 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1311 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1312 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1314 ** Miscellaneous changes
1316 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1317 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1318 configure your font server).
1320 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1321 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1324 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1325 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1328 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1329 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1330 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1334 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1335 ----------------------------
1337 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1338 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1339 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1340 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1344 - updated italian User Guide
1346 - updated french localization
1349 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1350 ----------------------------
1352 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1353 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1358 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1359 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1360 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1362 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1363 when dragging the mouse)
1365 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1366 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1367 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1370 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1371 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1372 who are not aware that it is needed
1374 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1375 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1377 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1378 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1380 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1382 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1384 - update sciword bindings
1386 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1387 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1389 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1393 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1394 ----------------------------
1396 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1397 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1398 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1399 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1404 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1405 when this gets released)
1407 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1408 the performance problems
1410 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1412 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1413 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1414 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1416 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1419 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1420 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1421 help entering of ERT insets)
1423 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1425 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1427 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1429 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1430 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1433 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1435 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1438 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1439 line and have this file created for you
1441 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1442 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1445 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1446 ----------------------------
1448 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1449 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1450 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1451 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1452 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1455 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1456 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1459 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1460 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1463 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1464 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1465 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1467 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1470 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1471 appear in the output.
1473 - New minipage inset
1475 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1476 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1480 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1482 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1483 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1484 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1487 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1491 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1492 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1493 process, among which:
1495 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1497 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1498 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1499 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1501 - support for many amsmath features
1502 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1503 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1504 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1505 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1508 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1510 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1512 - Improvements to the parser
1514 - Improvements to math text mode
1516 - (Better) support for nested macros
1518 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1520 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1522 - GUI support provided for many more features
1525 Other changes include:
1527 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1530 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1531 improved in the process
1533 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1534 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1535 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1537 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1540 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1541 "shelfful", or many german words
1543 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1544 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1545 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1546 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1548 - Updated documentation
1550 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1553 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1555 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1557 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1559 - Babel can be disabled
1561 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1563 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1564 ------------------------------------
1566 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1570 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1572 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1573 appears to be more suitable.
1575 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1576 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1578 - add support for dvipdfm
1580 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1581 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1583 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1586 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1588 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1591 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1593 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1596 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1597 ------------------------------------
1599 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1603 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1606 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1607 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1609 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1612 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1613 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1615 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1616 Theoretical Computer Science
1618 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1620 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1621 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1623 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1624 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1625 with the older version
1628 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1629 ------------------------------------
1631 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1635 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1637 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1638 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1639 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1641 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1642 documentation update.
1644 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1647 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1648 ------------------------------------
1650 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1654 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1655 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1657 - better support for ukrainian language
1659 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1660 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1662 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1663 line-delete-forward.
1665 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1667 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1670 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1671 --------------------------------
1673 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1674 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1675 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1677 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1678 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1679 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1680 from the older development version:
1682 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1683 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1684 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1685 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1686 have been overhauled.
1688 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1691 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1692 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1694 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1696 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1697 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1698 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1700 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1702 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1703 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1704 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1705 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1706 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1707 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1708 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1710 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1711 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1712 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1715 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1716 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1717 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1718 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1719 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1720 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1722 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1723 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1724 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1725 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1726 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1728 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1730 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1732 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1733 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1734 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1735 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1736 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1737 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1739 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1741 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1744 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1745 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1747 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1748 mentioned here for your information
1750 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1751 (this can be changed in preferences).
1753 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1758 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1759 --------------------------------
1761 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1762 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1763 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1765 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1766 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1768 User-visible changes:
1770 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1772 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1774 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1776 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1778 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1779 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1781 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1782 command-line/window:
1783 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1785 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1786 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1788 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1790 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1792 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1794 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1795 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1796 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1797 (And you probably had the error always.)
1799 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1801 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1802 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1804 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1806 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1807 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1808 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1809 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1811 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1813 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1814 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1816 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1817 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1819 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1820 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1821 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1822 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1825 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1826 --------------------------------
1828 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1829 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1830 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1833 In the user-visible department, we find:
1835 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1836 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1837 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1838 the GUI pops up during the process...
1840 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1842 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1843 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1845 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1846 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1847 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1848 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1850 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1853 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1854 --------------------------------
1856 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1857 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1859 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1860 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1861 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1863 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1864 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1867 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1870 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1872 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1873 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1874 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1875 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1876 for the sake of correctness.
1878 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1879 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1881 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1882 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1884 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1886 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1888 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1890 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1891 --------------------------------
1893 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1895 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1896 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1897 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1899 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1901 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1903 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1905 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1906 has also been fixed.
1908 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1909 --------------------------------
1911 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1912 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1913 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1914 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1915 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1916 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1918 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1920 - New export to HTML feature
1922 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1924 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1925 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1926 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1928 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1929 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1930 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1932 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1933 --------------------------------------------------
1935 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1936 new features has been included:
1942 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1944 - Several language files updated.
1946 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1948 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1949 --------------------------------------------------
1951 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1953 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1956 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1958 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1960 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1961 --------------------------------------------------
1963 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1964 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1966 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1968 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1969 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1971 - Better multipart document support.
1973 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1976 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1979 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1980 --------------------------------------------------
1982 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1983 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1985 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1987 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1989 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1991 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1993 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1997 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1998 ----------------------------------------------------
2000 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2001 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2003 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2004 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2005 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2006 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2007 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2009 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2010 footnotes, and generally better output.
2012 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2013 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2014 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2015 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2016 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2018 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2019 and error message translations) for several languages.
2021 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2022 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2023 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2025 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2027 - Improved table support.
2029 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2031 - easier handling of index entries.
2033 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2034 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2035 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2036 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2039 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2040 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as