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 algorithm floats can be set
19 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
20 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
21 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
23 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
26 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
31 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
32 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
36 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
38 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
39 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
40 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
43 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
47 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
48 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
51 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
53 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
54 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
55 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
57 - support for many amsmath features
58 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
59 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
60 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
61 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
64 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
66 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
68 - Improvements to the parser
70 - Improvements to math text mode
72 - (Better) support for nested macros
74 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
76 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
78 - GUI support provided for many more features
81 Other changes include:
83 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
86 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
87 improved in the process
89 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
90 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
91 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
93 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
96 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
97 "shelfful", or many german words
99 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
100 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
101 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
102 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
104 - Updated documentation
106 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
109 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
111 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
113 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
115 - Babel can be disabled
117 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
120 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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123 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
124 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
125 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
127 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
128 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
129 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
130 from the older development version:
132 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
133 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
134 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
135 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
136 have been overhauled.
138 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
141 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
142 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
144 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
146 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
147 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
148 will give you an idea of what is happening.
150 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
152 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
153 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
154 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
155 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
156 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
157 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
158 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
160 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
161 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
162 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
165 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
166 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
167 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
168 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
169 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
170 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
172 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
173 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
174 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
175 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
176 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
178 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
180 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
182 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
183 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
184 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
185 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
186 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
187 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
189 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
191 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
194 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
195 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
197 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
198 mentioned here for your information
200 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
201 (this can be changed in preferences).
203 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
208 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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211 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
212 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
213 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
215 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
216 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
218 User-visible changes:
220 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
222 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
224 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
226 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
228 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
229 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
231 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
233 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
235 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
236 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
238 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
240 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
242 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
244 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
245 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
246 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
247 (And you probably had the error always.)
249 - Better definition for LyXList style.
251 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
252 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
254 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
256 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
257 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
258 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
259 support is of course not supported in older versions.
261 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
263 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
264 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
266 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
267 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
269 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
270 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
271 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
272 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
275 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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278 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
279 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
280 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
283 In the user-visible department, we find:
285 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
286 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
287 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
288 the GUI pops up during the process...
290 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
292 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
293 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
295 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
296 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
297 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
298 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
300 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
303 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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306 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
307 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
309 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
310 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
311 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
313 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
314 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
317 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
320 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
322 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
323 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
324 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
325 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
326 for the sake of correctness.
328 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
329 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
331 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
332 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
334 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
336 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
338 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
340 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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343 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
345 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
346 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
347 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
349 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
351 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
353 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
355 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
358 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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361 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
362 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
363 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
364 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
365 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
366 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
368 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
370 - New export to HTML feature
372 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
374 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
375 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
376 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
378 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
379 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
380 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
382 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
383 --------------------------------------------------
385 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
386 new features has been included:
392 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
394 - Several language files updated.
396 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
398 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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401 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
403 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
406 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
408 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
410 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
411 --------------------------------------------------
413 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
414 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
416 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
418 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
419 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
421 - Better multipart document support.
423 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
426 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
429 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
430 --------------------------------------------------
432 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
433 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
435 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
437 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
439 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
441 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
443 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
447 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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450 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
451 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
453 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
454 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
455 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
456 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
457 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
459 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
460 footnotes, and generally better output.
462 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
463 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
464 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
465 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
466 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
468 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
469 and error message translations) for several languages.
471 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
472 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
473 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
475 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
477 - Improved table support.
479 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
481 - easier handling of index entries.
483 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
484 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
485 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
486 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
489 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
490 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as