1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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4 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
5 of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
6 ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
9 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
10 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
11 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
12 from the older development version:
14 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
15 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
16 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
17 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
20 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
21 lyxrc settings [Allan, details?]
23 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
24 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
26 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
28 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
29 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
30 will give you an idea of what is happening.
32 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
34 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
35 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
36 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
37 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
38 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
39 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
40 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
42 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
43 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
44 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
47 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
48 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
49 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
50 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
51 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
52 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
54 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
55 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
56 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
57 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
58 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
60 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
62 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
64 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
65 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
66 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
67 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
68 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
69 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
71 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
73 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
76 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
77 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
79 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
80 mentioned here for your information
82 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
83 (this can be changed in lyxrc).
85 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
90 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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93 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
94 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
95 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
97 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
98 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
100 User-visible changes:
102 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
104 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
106 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
108 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
110 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
111 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
113 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
115 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
117 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
118 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
120 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
122 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
124 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
126 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
127 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
128 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
129 (And you probably had the error always.)
131 - Better definition for LyXList style.
133 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
134 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
136 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
138 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
139 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
140 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
141 support is of course not supported in older versions.
143 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
145 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
146 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
148 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
149 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
151 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
152 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
153 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
154 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
157 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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160 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
161 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
162 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
165 In the user-visible department, we find:
167 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
168 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
169 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
170 the GUI pops up during the process...
172 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
174 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
175 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
177 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
178 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
179 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
180 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
182 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
185 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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188 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
189 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
191 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
192 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
193 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
195 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
196 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
199 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
202 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
204 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
205 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
206 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
207 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
208 for the sake of correctness.
210 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
211 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
213 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
214 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
216 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
218 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
220 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
222 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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225 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
227 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
228 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
229 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
231 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
233 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
235 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
237 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
240 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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243 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
244 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
245 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
246 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
247 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
248 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
250 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
252 - New export to HTML feature
254 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
256 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
257 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
258 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
260 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
261 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
262 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
264 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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267 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
268 new features has been included:
274 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
276 - Several language files updated.
278 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
280 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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283 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
285 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
288 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
290 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
292 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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295 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
296 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
298 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
300 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
301 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
303 - Better multipart document support.
305 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
308 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
311 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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314 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
315 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
317 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
319 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
321 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
323 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
325 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
329 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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332 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
333 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
335 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
336 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
337 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
338 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
339 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
341 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
342 footnotes, and generally better output.
344 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
345 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
346 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
347 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
348 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
350 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
351 and error message translations) for several languages.
353 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
354 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
355 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
357 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
359 - Improved table support.
361 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
363 - easier handling of index entries.
365 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
366 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
367 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
368 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
371 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
372 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as