1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5
11 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
12 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
15 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
16 positional parameters of figure, table and algorith, floats can be set
19 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved
20 (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...)
22 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
25 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
31 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
33 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
34 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
35 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
38 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
42 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
43 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
46 - possibility to display arbitrary TeX symbols as long as the fonts are
47 made available to the X server
49 - support for many amsmath features
51 - Improvements to the parser
53 - Improvements to math text mode
55 - (Better) support for nested macros
57 - (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits
59 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
61 - Support for changing font on a selection
64 Other changes include:
66 - Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
67 improved in the process
69 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
70 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
71 version and alternative fontends are expected for 1.3.0
73 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
76 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
77 "shelfful", or many german words
79 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
80 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
81 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
82 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
84 - Updated documentation
86 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
88 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
90 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
92 - Babel can be disabled when using the default language
94 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
97 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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100 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
101 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
102 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
104 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
105 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
106 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
107 from the older development version:
109 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
110 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
111 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
112 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
113 have been overhauled.
115 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
118 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
119 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
121 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
123 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
124 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
125 will give you an idea of what is happening.
127 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
129 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
130 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
131 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
132 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
133 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
134 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
135 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
137 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
138 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
139 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
142 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
143 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
144 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
145 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
146 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
147 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
149 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
150 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
151 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
152 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
153 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
155 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
157 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
159 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
160 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
161 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
162 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
163 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
164 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
166 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
168 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
171 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
172 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
174 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
175 mentioned here for your information
177 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
178 (this can be changed in preferences).
180 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
185 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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188 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
189 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
190 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
192 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
193 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
195 User-visible changes:
197 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
199 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
201 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
203 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
205 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
206 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
208 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
210 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
212 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
213 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
215 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
217 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
219 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
221 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
222 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
223 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
224 (And you probably had the error always.)
226 - Better definition for LyXList style.
228 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
229 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
231 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
233 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
234 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
235 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
236 support is of course not supported in older versions.
238 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
240 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
241 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
243 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
244 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
246 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
247 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
248 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
249 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
252 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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255 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
256 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
257 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
260 In the user-visible department, we find:
262 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
263 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
264 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
265 the GUI pops up during the process...
267 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
269 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
270 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
272 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
273 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
274 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
275 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
277 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
280 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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283 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
284 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
286 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
287 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
288 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
290 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
291 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
294 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
297 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
299 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
300 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
301 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
302 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
303 for the sake of correctness.
305 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
306 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
308 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
309 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
311 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
313 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
315 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
317 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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320 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
322 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
323 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
324 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
326 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
328 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
330 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
332 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
335 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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338 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
339 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
340 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
341 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
342 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
343 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
345 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
347 - New export to HTML feature
349 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
351 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
352 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
353 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
355 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
356 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
357 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
359 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
360 --------------------------------------------------
362 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
363 new features has been included:
369 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
371 - Several language files updated.
373 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
375 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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378 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
380 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
383 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
385 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
387 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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390 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
391 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
393 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
395 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
396 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
398 - Better multipart document support.
400 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
403 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
406 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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409 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
410 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
412 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
414 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
416 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
418 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
420 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
424 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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427 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
428 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
430 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
431 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
432 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
433 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
434 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
436 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
437 footnotes, and generally better output.
439 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
440 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
441 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
442 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
443 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
445 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
446 and error message translations) for several languages.
448 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
449 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
450 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
452 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
454 - Improved table support.
456 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
458 - easier handling of index entries.
460 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
461 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
462 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
463 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
466 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
467 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as