1 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
5 release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
6 the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
7 important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
8 a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
9 announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
13 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
14 either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. The dialogs are
15 not copies of those of xforms, but that some different design choices
18 There are a few caveats though:
24 The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
25 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
26 implemented, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
27 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
29 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
30 version 1.0. This version has been released under the GPL, and the
31 availability of the source means that many bugs that have been
32 plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You are advised to upgrade to
33 xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. As a matter of fact, LyX
34 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
42 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
43 stopped recently and we have therefore disabled it. We strongly invite
44 anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the developpers
49 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant
50 previews" of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual
51 rendering of the LaTeX in the document. With the help of David
52 Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
53 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
54 figures. This feature can be immensely useful for making sure the
55 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
56 preview is only displayed (when enabled) when you're not editing the
57 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
63 ** Miscellaneous changes
65 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering if they are
66 available (it is not necessary anymore to configure your font server).
70 What's new in version 1.2.2?
71 ----------------------------
73 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
74 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
79 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
80 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
81 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
83 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
84 when dragging the mouse)
86 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
87 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
88 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
91 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
92 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
93 who are not aware that it is needed
95 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
96 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
98 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
99 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
101 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
103 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
105 - update sciword bindings
107 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
108 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
110 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
114 What's new in version 1.2.1?
115 ----------------------------
117 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
118 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
119 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
120 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
125 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
126 when this gets released)
128 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
129 the performance problems
131 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
133 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
134 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
135 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
137 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
140 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
141 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
142 help entering of ERT insets)
144 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
146 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
148 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
150 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
151 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
154 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
156 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
159 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
160 line and have this file created for you
162 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
163 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
166 What's new in version 1.2.0?
167 ----------------------------
169 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
170 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
171 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
172 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
173 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
176 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
177 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
180 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
181 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
184 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
185 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
186 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
188 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
191 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
192 appear in the output.
196 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
197 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
201 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
203 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
204 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
205 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
208 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
212 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
213 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
214 process, among which:
216 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
218 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
219 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
220 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
222 - support for many amsmath features
223 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
224 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
225 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
226 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
229 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
231 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
233 - Improvements to the parser
235 - Improvements to math text mode
237 - (Better) support for nested macros
239 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
241 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
243 - GUI support provided for many more features
246 Other changes include:
248 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
251 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
252 improved in the process
254 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
255 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
256 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
258 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
261 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
262 "shelfful", or many german words
264 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
265 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
266 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
267 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
269 - Updated documentation
271 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
274 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
276 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
278 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
280 - Babel can be disabled
282 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
284 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
285 ------------------------------------
287 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
291 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
293 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
294 appears to be more suitable.
296 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
297 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
299 - add support for dvipdfm
301 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
302 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
304 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
307 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
309 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
312 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
314 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
317 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
318 ------------------------------------
320 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
324 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
327 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
328 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
330 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
333 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
334 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
336 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
337 Theoretical Computer Science
339 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
341 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
342 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
344 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
345 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
346 with the older version
349 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
350 ------------------------------------
352 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
356 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
358 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
359 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
360 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
362 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
363 documentation update.
365 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
368 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
369 ------------------------------------
371 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
375 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
376 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
378 - better support for ukrainian language
380 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
381 working --with-lyx-suffix.
383 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
386 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
388 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
391 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
392 --------------------------------
394 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
395 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
396 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
398 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
399 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
400 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
401 from the older development version:
403 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
404 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
405 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
406 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
407 have been overhauled.
409 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
412 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
413 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
415 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
417 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
418 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
419 will give you an idea of what is happening.
421 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
423 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
424 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
425 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
426 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
427 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
428 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
429 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
431 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
432 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
433 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
436 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
437 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
438 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
439 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
440 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
441 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
443 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
444 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
445 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
446 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
447 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
449 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
451 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
453 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
454 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
455 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
456 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
457 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
458 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
460 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
462 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
465 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
466 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
468 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
469 mentioned here for your information
471 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
472 (this can be changed in preferences).
474 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
479 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
480 --------------------------------
482 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
483 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
484 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
486 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
487 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
489 User-visible changes:
491 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
493 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
495 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
497 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
499 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
500 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
502 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
504 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
506 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
507 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
509 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
511 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
513 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
515 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
516 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
517 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
518 (And you probably had the error always.)
520 - Better definition for LyXList style.
522 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
523 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
525 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
527 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
528 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
529 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
530 support is of course not supported in older versions.
532 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
534 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
535 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
537 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
538 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
540 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
541 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
542 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
543 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
546 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
547 --------------------------------
549 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
550 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
551 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
554 In the user-visible department, we find:
556 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
557 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
558 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
559 the GUI pops up during the process...
561 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
563 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
564 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
566 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
567 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
568 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
569 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
571 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
574 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
575 --------------------------------
577 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
578 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
580 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
581 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
582 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
584 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
585 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
588 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
591 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
593 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
594 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
595 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
596 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
597 for the sake of correctness.
599 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
600 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
602 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
603 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
605 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
607 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
609 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
611 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
612 --------------------------------
614 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
616 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
617 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
618 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
620 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
622 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
624 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
626 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
629 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
630 --------------------------------
632 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
633 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
634 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
635 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
636 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
637 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
639 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
641 - New export to HTML feature
643 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
645 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
646 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
647 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
649 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
650 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
651 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
653 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
654 --------------------------------------------------
656 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
657 new features has been included:
663 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
665 - Several language files updated.
667 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
669 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
670 --------------------------------------------------
672 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
674 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
677 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
679 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
681 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
682 --------------------------------------------------
684 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
685 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
687 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
689 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
690 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
692 - Better multipart document support.
694 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
697 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
700 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
701 --------------------------------------------------
703 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
704 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
706 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
708 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
710 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
712 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
714 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
718 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
719 ----------------------------------------------------
721 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
722 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
724 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
725 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
726 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
727 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
728 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
730 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
731 footnotes, and generally better output.
733 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
734 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
735 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
736 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
737 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
739 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
740 and error message translations) for several languages.
742 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
743 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
744 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
746 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
748 - Improved table support.
750 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
752 - easier handling of index entries.
754 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
755 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
756 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
757 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
760 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
761 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as