1 What's new in version 2.2.3?
2 ----------------------------
4 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
6 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
7 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
8 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
9 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
12 What's new in version 2.2.2?
13 ----------------------------
15 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
17 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
18 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
19 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
21 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
22 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
24 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
25 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
26 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
27 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
31 What's new in version 2.2.1?
32 ----------------------------
34 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
36 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
37 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
38 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
39 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
40 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
43 What's new in version 2.2.0?
44 ----------------------------
46 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
47 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
49 * HiDPI display support
51 * New text display algorithm
52 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
53 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
54 * Improved text color support
56 * Improved table context menu
57 * Reworked instant preview
58 * Enhanced source panel
59 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
60 * Enhanced language support
61 * New supported languages
62 * New supported LaTeX commands
65 * New preferences settings
69 What's new in version 2.1.5?
70 ----------------------------
72 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
73 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
75 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
76 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
77 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
80 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
81 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
82 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
83 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
86 What's new in version 2.1.4?
87 ----------------------------
89 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
91 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
92 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
93 to upgrade to this version.
96 What's new in version 2.1.3?
97 ----------------------------
99 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
101 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
102 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
103 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
106 What's new in version 2.1.2?
107 ----------------------------
109 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
111 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
112 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
113 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
114 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
115 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
116 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
119 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
120 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
121 of older beamer documents easier.
124 What's new in version 2.1.1?
125 ----------------------------
127 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
128 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
129 release announcement for the details.
131 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
132 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
133 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
134 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
135 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
136 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
138 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
139 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
140 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
142 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
143 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
144 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
145 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
148 What's new in version 2.1.0?
149 ----------------------------
151 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
152 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
154 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
155 * New supported languages
156 * Tex Fonts Additions
157 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
158 * Document class categories
159 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
160 * New supported LaTeX commands
161 * New export command-line option
163 * Layout enhancements
165 * Equation Editor "mode"
168 What's new in version 2.0.8?
169 ----------------------------
171 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
172 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
173 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
175 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
176 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
177 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
178 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
179 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
180 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
183 What's new in version 2.0.7?
184 ----------------------------
186 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
187 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
188 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
189 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
192 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
193 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
196 What's new in version 2.0.6?
197 ----------------------------
199 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
200 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
201 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
204 What's new in version 2.0.5?
205 ----------------------------
207 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
208 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
209 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
210 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
213 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
214 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
215 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
216 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
217 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
218 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
219 - Menu functions are unchanged.
222 What's new in version 2.0.4?
223 ----------------------------
225 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
226 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
227 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
228 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
229 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
230 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
233 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
234 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
235 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
236 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
237 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
239 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
240 will continue for 2.0.5.
243 What's new in version 2.0.3?
244 ----------------------------
246 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
247 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
249 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
250 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
251 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
252 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
253 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
255 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
256 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
259 What's new in version 2.0.2?
260 ----------------------------
262 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
263 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
264 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
266 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
267 below for the details.
269 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
272 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
273 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
274 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
275 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
276 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
279 What's new in version 2.0.1?
280 ----------------------------
282 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
283 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
284 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
285 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
286 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
287 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
291 What's new in version 2.0.0?
292 ----------------------------
294 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
295 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
297 * Advanced Search Facility
298 * Spell-checking on the Fly
299 * Compare Documents Feature
301 * Multilingual Thesaurus
303 * Multiple Indices Support
304 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
305 * Enhanced Instant Preview
306 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
307 * Enhanced Version Control Features
308 * Typesetting in background
311 What's new in version 1.6.10?
312 ------------------------------
313 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
314 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
315 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
316 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
317 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
321 What's new in version 1.6.9?
322 -----------------------------
324 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
325 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
326 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
327 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
330 What's new in version 1.6.8?
331 -----------------------------
333 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
334 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
335 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
336 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
339 What's new in version 1.6.7?
340 -----------------------------
342 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
343 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
344 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
345 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
349 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
350 ------------------------------
352 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
353 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
354 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
355 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
358 What's new in version 1.6.6?
359 -----------------------------
361 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
362 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
363 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
364 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
365 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
366 spelling in parallel).
369 What's new in version 1.6.5?
370 -----------------------------
372 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
373 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
374 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
375 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
376 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
379 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
380 -------------------------------
382 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
383 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
386 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
387 -------------------------------
389 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
390 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
391 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
394 What's new in version 1.6.4?
395 -------------------------------
397 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
398 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
401 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
402 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
403 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
404 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
405 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
406 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
407 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
408 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
411 What's new in version 1.6.3?
412 -------------------------------
414 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
415 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
417 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
418 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
419 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
420 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
422 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
423 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
424 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
425 compiled against Qt 4.5.
428 What's new in version 1.6.2?
429 -------------------------------
431 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
432 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
433 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
434 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
435 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
436 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
437 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
440 What's new in version 1.6.1?
441 -------------------------------
443 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
444 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
445 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
449 What's new in version 1.6.0?
450 -------------------------------
452 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
453 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
455 * Multiple Work Areas
457 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
459 * Layout combobox changes
460 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
461 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
463 * New implementation of math macros
468 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
469 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
470 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
475 * Graphics parameters groups
476 * LyX functions manual
477 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
480 What's new in version 1.5.7?
481 ----------------------------
483 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
484 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
485 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
486 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
487 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
488 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
491 What's new in version 1.5.6?
492 ----------------------------
494 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
495 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
496 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
497 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
500 What's new in version 1.5.5?
501 ----------------------------
503 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
504 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
505 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
506 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
507 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
510 What's new in version 1.5.4?
511 ----------------------------
513 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
514 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
515 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
516 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
519 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
520 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
521 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
522 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
523 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
526 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
527 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
528 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
529 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
530 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
531 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
532 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
533 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
536 What's new in version 1.5.3?
537 ----------------------------
539 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
540 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
541 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
542 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
543 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
544 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
545 version also provides some new features.
548 What's new in version 1.5.2?
549 ----------------------------
551 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
552 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
553 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
554 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
557 What's new in version 1.5.1?
558 ----------------------------
560 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
561 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
562 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
563 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
564 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
566 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
569 What's new in version 1.5.0?
570 ----------------------------
572 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
573 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
574 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
578 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
579 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
580 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
581 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
582 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
583 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
584 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
585 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
586 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
587 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
590 * Integrated CJK support
592 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
593 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
594 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
596 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
597 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
598 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
599 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
603 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
604 have full user interface support.
606 * Multiple views of the same buffer
608 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
609 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
610 parts of it synchronously.
612 * Outliner and embedded TOC
614 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
615 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
616 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
617 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
621 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
622 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
623 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
624 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
625 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
626 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
630 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
631 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
634 * New Font Selection Interface
636 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
637 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
638 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
642 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
643 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
644 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
648 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
649 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
650 glossaries and fancy notations.
654 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
656 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
658 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
659 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
660 to the math toolbars.
661 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
662 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
666 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
667 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
668 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
669 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
670 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
671 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
672 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
673 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
676 * Change tracking enhancements
678 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
679 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
681 * Converter file cache
683 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
684 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
685 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
686 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
687 is enabled by default.
689 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
692 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
694 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
696 * Unified Windows installer
698 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
699 both installers are welcome.
703 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
704 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
705 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
707 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
708 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
710 * LaTeX-package support
712 LyX provides the following new document classes:
713 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
714 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
715 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
716 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
717 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
719 * Minor user interface improvements
721 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
723 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
724 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
725 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
727 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
729 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
730 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
731 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
732 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
733 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
734 even after the selection has been cleared.
736 * Limited support for local class and layout files
738 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
739 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
740 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
741 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
742 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
743 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
744 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
748 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
749 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
750 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
751 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
752 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
753 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
754 series has been to bring this speed back.
758 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
759 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
762 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
763 ------------------------------
765 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
766 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
769 What's new in version 1.4.5?
770 ----------------------------
772 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
773 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
774 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
775 python 2.3.4 or later).
778 What's new in version 1.4.4?
779 ----------------------------
781 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
783 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
784 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
786 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
787 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
789 *) Improved documentation.
791 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
794 What's new in version 1.4.3?
795 ----------------------------
797 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
798 support. Notable new features include:
800 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
801 installation anymore.
803 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
804 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
805 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
806 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
808 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
812 What's new in version 1.4.2?
813 ----------------------------
815 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
817 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
818 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
820 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
822 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
823 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
824 be compressed on disk or not.
826 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
827 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
828 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
831 What's new in version 1.4.1?
832 ----------------------------
834 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
836 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
837 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
839 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
842 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
844 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
846 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
847 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
850 What's new in version 1.4.0?
851 ----------------------------
853 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
854 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
855 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
857 ** Improved user interface
859 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
860 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
861 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
862 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
863 classic UI) is still available, for now.
865 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
866 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
867 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
868 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
869 available: one for tables, and one for math.
871 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
872 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
877 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
878 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
879 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
882 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
884 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
885 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
886 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
887 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
891 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
892 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
893 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
894 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
900 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
901 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
902 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
904 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
905 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
906 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
908 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
910 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
911 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
916 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
917 the Insert>Note menu:
919 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
920 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
922 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
923 well, greyed-out text.
925 ** Better language and numbering on screen
927 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
929 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
930 the language of the document, which may be different from the
931 language of the menus;
932 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
933 document class specifications.
937 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
938 count of the document or of the current selection.
942 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
943 of errors popping up at compilation time.
945 ** Improved bibliography support
947 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
948 "before citation" field is supported;
949 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
950 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
952 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
953 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
954 index processor is invoked).
956 ** Improved microtypography support
958 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
960 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
961 between "e." and "g.");
962 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
963 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
964 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
965 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
966 much space between figure/table and caption.
970 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
972 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
975 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
976 edit the included figure
978 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
979 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
983 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
984 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
987 What's new in version 1.3.7?
988 ----------------------------
990 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
991 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
994 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
995 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
997 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
998 installer and in the handling of file names.
1000 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1003 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1004 ----------------------------
1006 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1008 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1009 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1010 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1011 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1012 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1013 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1014 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1016 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1017 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1018 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1020 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1021 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1022 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1023 considered as part of words
1027 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1028 ----------------------------
1030 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1031 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1032 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1033 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1034 case where the files are in different directories.
1035 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1037 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1038 ----------------------------
1040 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1042 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1043 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1044 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1045 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1047 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1048 * The interface and documentation localization have
1051 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1052 ----------------------------
1054 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1056 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1057 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1058 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1059 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1060 the user interface and documentation.
1062 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1063 ----------------------------
1065 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1067 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1069 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1070 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1073 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1074 ----------------------------
1076 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1077 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1078 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1079 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1080 improvements) for good measure.
1084 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1085 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1087 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1088 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1090 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1091 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1092 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1093 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1096 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1097 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1098 (documentation has been updated too)
1100 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1101 spanish translation of menus
1103 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1104 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1105 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1107 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1108 ----------------------------
1110 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1111 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1112 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1113 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1114 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1116 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1117 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1118 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1122 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1123 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1124 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1125 functionally equivalent.
1127 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1128 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1129 symbols displayed properly.
1133 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1134 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1135 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1140 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1141 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1142 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1143 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1144 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1145 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1146 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1147 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1148 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1149 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1153 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1154 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1155 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1156 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1157 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1158 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1159 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1160 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1161 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1162 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1163 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1164 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1165 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1166 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1167 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1169 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1170 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1172 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1173 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1174 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1175 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1176 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1178 ** Reading old files
1180 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1181 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1182 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1183 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1185 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1186 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1187 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1188 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1190 ** Miscellaneous changes
1192 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1193 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1194 configure your font server).
1196 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1197 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1200 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1201 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1204 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1205 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1206 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1210 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1211 ----------------------------
1213 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1214 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1215 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1216 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1220 - updated italian User Guide
1222 - updated french localization
1225 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1226 ----------------------------
1228 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1229 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1234 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1235 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1236 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1238 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1239 when dragging the mouse)
1241 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1242 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1243 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1246 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1247 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1248 who are not aware that it is needed
1250 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1251 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1253 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1254 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1256 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1258 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1260 - update sciword bindings
1262 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1263 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1265 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1269 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1270 ----------------------------
1272 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1273 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1274 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1275 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1280 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1281 when this gets released)
1283 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1284 the performance problems
1286 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1288 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1289 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1290 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1292 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1295 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1296 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1297 help entering of ERT insets)
1299 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1301 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1303 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1305 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1306 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1309 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1311 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1314 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1315 line and have this file created for you
1317 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1318 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1321 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1322 ----------------------------
1324 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1325 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1326 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1327 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1328 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1331 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1332 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1335 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1336 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1339 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1340 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1341 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1343 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1346 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1347 appear in the output.
1349 - New minipage inset
1351 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1352 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1356 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1358 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1359 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1360 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1363 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1367 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1368 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1369 process, among which:
1371 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1373 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1374 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1375 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1377 - support for many amsmath features
1378 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1379 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1380 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1381 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1384 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1386 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1388 - Improvements to the parser
1390 - Improvements to math text mode
1392 - (Better) support for nested macros
1394 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1396 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1398 - GUI support provided for many more features
1401 Other changes include:
1403 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1406 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1407 improved in the process
1409 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1410 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1411 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1413 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1416 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1417 "shelfful", or many german words
1419 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1420 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1421 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1422 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1424 - Updated documentation
1426 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1429 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1431 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1433 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1435 - Babel can be disabled
1437 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1439 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1440 ------------------------------------
1442 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1446 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1448 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1449 appears to be more suitable.
1451 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1452 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1454 - add support for dvipdfm
1456 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1457 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1459 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1462 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1464 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1467 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1469 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1472 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1473 ------------------------------------
1475 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1479 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1482 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1483 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1485 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1488 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1489 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1491 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1492 Theoretical Computer Science
1494 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1496 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1497 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1499 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1500 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1501 with the older version
1504 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1505 ------------------------------------
1507 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1511 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1513 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1514 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1515 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1517 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1518 documentation update.
1520 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1523 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1524 ------------------------------------
1526 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1530 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1531 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1533 - better support for ukrainian language
1535 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1536 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1538 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1539 line-delete-forward.
1541 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1543 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1546 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1547 --------------------------------
1549 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1550 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1551 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1553 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1554 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1555 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1556 from the older development version:
1558 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1559 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1560 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1561 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1562 have been overhauled.
1564 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1567 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1568 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1570 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1572 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1573 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1574 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1576 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1578 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1579 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1580 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1581 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1582 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1583 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1584 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1586 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1587 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1588 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1591 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1592 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1593 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1594 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1595 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1596 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1598 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1599 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1600 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1601 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1602 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1604 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1606 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1608 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1609 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1610 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1611 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1612 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1613 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1615 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1617 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1620 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1621 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1623 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1624 mentioned here for your information
1626 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1627 (this can be changed in preferences).
1629 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1634 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1635 --------------------------------
1637 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1638 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1639 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1641 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1642 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1644 User-visible changes:
1646 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1648 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1650 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1652 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1654 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1655 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1657 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1658 command-line/window:
1659 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1661 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1662 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1664 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1666 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1668 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1670 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1671 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1672 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1673 (And you probably had the error always.)
1675 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1677 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1678 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1680 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1682 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1683 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1684 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1685 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1687 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1689 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1690 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1692 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1693 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1695 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1696 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1697 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1698 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1701 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1702 --------------------------------
1704 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1705 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1706 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1709 In the user-visible department, we find:
1711 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1712 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1713 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1714 the GUI pops up during the process...
1716 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1718 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1719 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1721 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1722 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1723 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1724 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1726 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1729 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1730 --------------------------------
1732 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1733 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1735 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1736 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1737 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1739 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1740 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1743 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1746 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1748 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1749 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1750 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1751 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1752 for the sake of correctness.
1754 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1755 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1757 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1758 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1760 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1762 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1764 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1766 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1767 --------------------------------
1769 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1771 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1772 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1773 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1775 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1777 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1779 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1781 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1782 has also been fixed.
1784 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1785 --------------------------------
1787 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1788 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1789 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1790 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1791 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1792 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1794 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1796 - New export to HTML feature
1798 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1800 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1801 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1802 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1804 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1805 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1806 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1808 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1809 --------------------------------------------------
1811 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1812 new features has been included:
1818 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1820 - Several language files updated.
1822 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1824 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1825 --------------------------------------------------
1827 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1829 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1832 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1834 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1836 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1837 --------------------------------------------------
1839 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1840 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1842 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1844 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1845 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1847 - Better multipart document support.
1849 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1852 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1855 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1856 --------------------------------------------------
1858 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1859 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1861 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1863 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1865 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1867 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1869 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1873 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1874 ----------------------------------------------------
1876 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1877 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1879 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1880 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1881 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1882 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1883 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1885 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1886 footnotes, and generally better output.
1888 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1889 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1890 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1891 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1892 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1894 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1895 and error message translations) for several languages.
1897 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1898 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1899 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1901 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1903 - Improved table support.
1905 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1907 - easier handling of index entries.
1909 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1910 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1911 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1912 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1915 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1916 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as