1 Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
2 ===================================
4 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
6 Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
7 we have updated the documentation.
9 Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
10 respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
11 Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
12 selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
14 LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
15 release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
16 result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
17 initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
18 the end of this announcement for further details.
20 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
21 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
22 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
26 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
27 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
28 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
29 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
30 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
31 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
32 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
33 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
34 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
35 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
38 * Integrated CJK support
40 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
41 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
42 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
44 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
45 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
46 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
47 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
51 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
52 have full user interface support.
54 * Multiple views of the same buffer
56 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
57 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
58 parts of it synchronously.
60 * Outliner and embedded TOC
62 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
63 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
64 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
65 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
69 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
70 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
71 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
72 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
73 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
74 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
78 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
79 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
82 * New Font Selection Interface
84 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
85 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
86 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
90 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
91 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
92 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
96 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
97 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
98 glossaries and fancy notations.
102 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
104 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
106 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
107 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
108 to the math toolbars.
109 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
110 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
114 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
115 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
116 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
117 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
118 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
119 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
120 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
121 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
124 * Change tracking enhancements
126 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
127 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
129 * Converter file cache
131 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
132 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
133 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
134 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
135 is enabled by default.
137 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
140 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
142 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
144 * Unified Windows installer
146 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
147 both installers are welcome.
151 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
152 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
153 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
155 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
156 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
158 * LaTeX-package support
160 LyX provides the following new document classes:
161 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
162 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
163 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
164 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
165 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
167 * Minor user interface improvements
169 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
171 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
172 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
173 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
175 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
177 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
178 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
179 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
180 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
181 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
182 even after the selection has been cleared.
184 * Limited support for local class and layout files
186 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
187 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
188 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
189 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
190 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
191 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
192 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
196 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
197 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
198 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
199 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
200 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
201 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
202 series has been to bring this speed back.
206 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
207 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
210 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
211 ----------------------------
213 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
214 We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
215 any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
216 in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
218 Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
219 and polished the graphical interface.
221 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
222 ----------------------------
224 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
225 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
226 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
227 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
229 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
230 ----------------------------
232 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
233 and added some improvements:
235 * A new inset to support code listings.
236 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
237 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
239 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
240 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
242 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
243 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
246 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
247 ----------------------------
249 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
250 added some graphical improvements:
251 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
252 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
253 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
255 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
256 the user interface have been made, such as:
258 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
259 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
260 - Support optional argument for environments
262 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
263 ----------------------------
267 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
268 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
269 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
270 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
271 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
272 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
273 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
274 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
275 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
276 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
279 * Integrated CJK support
281 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
282 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
284 * Multiple views of the same buffer
286 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
287 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
288 parts of it synchronously.
292 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
293 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
294 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
299 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
300 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
301 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
302 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
303 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
304 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
308 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
309 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
312 * New Font Selection Interface
314 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
315 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
316 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
320 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
321 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
322 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
327 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
328 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
329 glossaries and fancy notations.
333 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
337 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
338 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
339 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
340 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
341 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
342 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
343 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
344 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
347 * Change tracking enhancements
349 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
350 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
352 * Converter file cache
354 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
355 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
356 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
357 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
358 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
359 you want to use it, add the line
360 \use_converter_cache true
362 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
363 6 months. You can change that with the line
364 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
366 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
368 * Unified Windows installer
370 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
371 both installers are welcome.
375 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
376 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
377 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
378 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
379 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
380 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
381 series has been to bring this speed back.
384 What's new in version 1.4.5?
385 ----------------------------
390 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
392 - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
398 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
400 - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
402 - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
405 - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
407 - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
410 - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
414 - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
415 last paragraph (bug 3303).
417 - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
418 math insets (bug 3358).
420 - Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
422 - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
424 - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
426 - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
428 - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
431 - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
433 - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
434 Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
436 - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
438 - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
441 - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
444 - Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
446 - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
448 - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
450 - Fix undo for special characters.
452 - Fix gui for big delimiters.
454 - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
455 delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
457 - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
459 - Fix example for docbook-article.
461 - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
463 - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
468 - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
471 - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
473 - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
475 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
477 - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
479 - Allow automake 1.10 for building.
481 - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
482 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
483 2.3.x python releases).
486 What's new in version 1.4.4?
487 ----------------------------
492 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
494 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
496 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
498 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
499 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
500 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
501 if you want to use this feature.
503 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
505 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
506 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
507 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
508 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
509 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
511 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
515 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
516 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
518 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
519 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
521 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
522 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
525 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
527 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
528 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
530 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
532 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
533 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
534 floats, notes, and boxes.
536 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
538 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
539 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
541 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
542 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
543 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
549 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
551 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
552 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
553 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
555 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
558 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
560 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
562 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
565 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
568 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
570 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
573 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
574 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
575 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
577 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
579 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
581 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
584 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
586 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
589 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
591 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
593 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
595 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
597 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
598 it cannot be omitted.
602 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
604 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
606 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
607 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
609 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
610 taller than the workarea.
612 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
613 related to large insets.
615 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
616 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
619 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
620 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
622 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
625 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
628 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
630 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
632 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
633 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
635 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
636 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
637 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
639 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
642 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
643 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
645 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
647 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
649 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
651 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
652 inset, do not open it by mistake.
654 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
655 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
657 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
659 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
661 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
663 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
665 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
668 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
670 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
672 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
674 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
676 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
678 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
680 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
682 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
683 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
685 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
687 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
689 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
691 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
693 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
696 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
697 a document. This is fixed.
699 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
700 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
701 (bug 3066) [qt only].
703 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
704 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
706 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
707 in preferences (bug 895)
709 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
712 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
714 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
716 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
720 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
722 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
725 What's new in version 1.4.3?
726 ----------------------------
730 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
731 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
733 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
734 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
737 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
739 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
741 - Some small updates to the documentation.
743 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
744 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
746 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
747 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
751 * Document Input/Output
753 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
755 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
758 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
760 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
761 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
763 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
764 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
767 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
768 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
770 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
771 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
773 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
775 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
777 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
779 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
783 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
784 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
786 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
787 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
789 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
790 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
792 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
794 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
796 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
798 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
800 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
803 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
805 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
807 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
809 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
812 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
814 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
815 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
817 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
818 if it exists (bug 2779).
820 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
821 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
823 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
824 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
826 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
828 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
830 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
832 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
834 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
835 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
837 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
838 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
840 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
842 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
844 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
846 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
848 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
849 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
851 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
852 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
854 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
856 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
857 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
859 * Build/installation:
861 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
863 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
864 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
866 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
867 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
869 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
871 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
873 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
874 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
875 package under cygwin.
877 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
878 development/cmake/README.cmake
880 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
881 project and scons or CMake.
885 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
887 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
889 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
891 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
893 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
894 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
896 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
898 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
902 What's new in version 1.4.2?
903 ----------------------------
907 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
908 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
910 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
911 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
914 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
915 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
917 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
918 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
920 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
922 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
923 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
924 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
926 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
927 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
930 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
932 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
934 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
936 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
943 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
945 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
948 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
951 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
952 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
954 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
955 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
957 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
960 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
961 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
963 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
966 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
967 change tracking mode.
969 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
970 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
972 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
973 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
975 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
976 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
978 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
981 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
984 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
986 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
987 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
989 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
991 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
992 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
994 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
996 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
998 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
1002 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
1005 - Fix undo in matrices.
1007 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
1009 * Document input/output:
1011 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
1014 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
1015 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
1017 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
1018 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
1019 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
1021 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
1023 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
1026 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
1028 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
1030 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
1032 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
1034 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
1035 pdflatex (bug 2235).
1037 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
1039 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
1043 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
1044 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
1045 has also been pythonified.
1047 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
1050 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
1051 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
1052 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
1053 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
1055 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
1056 directory on Windows.
1058 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
1059 rename the executable files.
1061 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
1062 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
1064 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
1066 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
1067 in the source package.
1069 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
1072 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
1074 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
1075 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
1078 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
1079 support via zlib is now a requirement.
1081 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
1084 What's new in version 1.4.1?
1085 ----------------------------
1089 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
1092 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
1093 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
1094 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
1096 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
1097 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
1099 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
1105 * Document input/output:
1107 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
1109 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
1111 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
1114 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
1116 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
1118 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
1120 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
1122 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
1125 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
1127 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
1129 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
1131 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
1133 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
1134 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
1135 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
1140 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
1142 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
1144 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
1146 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
1149 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
1152 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
1154 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
1156 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
1158 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
1163 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
1165 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
1167 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
1168 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
1170 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
1172 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
1174 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
1175 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
1177 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
1178 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
1180 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
1182 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
1184 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
1186 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
1187 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
1189 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
1191 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
1193 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
1195 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
1197 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
1199 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
1201 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
1203 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
1205 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
1207 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
1208 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
1210 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
1213 * Configuration/Installation:
1215 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
1216 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
1218 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
1221 What's new in version 1.4.0?
1222 ----------------------------
1224 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
1225 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
1226 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
1228 ** Improved user interface
1230 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
1231 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
1232 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
1233 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
1234 classic UI) is still available, for now.
1236 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
1237 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
1238 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
1239 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
1240 available: one for tables, and one for math.
1242 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
1243 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1248 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1249 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1250 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1253 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1255 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1256 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1257 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1258 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1262 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1263 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1264 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1265 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1271 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1272 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1273 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1275 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1276 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1277 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1279 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1281 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1282 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1287 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1288 the Insert>Note menu:
1290 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1291 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1293 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1294 well, greyed-out text.
1296 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1298 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1300 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1301 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1302 language of the menus;
1303 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1304 document class specifications.
1308 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1309 count of the document or of the current selection.
1313 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1314 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1316 ** Improved bibliography support
1318 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1319 "before citation" field is supported;
1320 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1321 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1323 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1324 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1325 index processor is invoked).
1327 ** Improved microtypography support
1329 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1331 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1332 between "e." and "g.");
1333 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1334 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1335 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1336 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1337 much space between figure/table and caption.
1341 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1343 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1346 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1347 edit the included figure
1349 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1350 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1354 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1355 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1358 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1359 ----------------------------
1361 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1362 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1365 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1366 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1368 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1369 installer and in the handling of file names.
1371 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1374 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1375 ----------------------------
1377 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1379 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1380 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1381 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1382 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1383 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1384 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1385 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1387 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1388 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1389 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1391 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1392 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1393 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1394 considered as part of words
1398 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1399 ----------------------------
1401 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1402 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1403 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1404 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1405 case where the files are in different directories.
1406 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1408 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1409 ----------------------------
1411 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1413 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1414 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1415 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1416 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1418 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1419 * The interface and documentation localization have
1422 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1423 ----------------------------
1425 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1427 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1428 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1429 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1430 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1431 the user interface and documentation.
1433 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1434 ----------------------------
1436 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1438 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1440 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1441 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1444 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1445 ----------------------------
1447 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1448 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1449 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1450 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1451 improvements) for good measure.
1455 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1456 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1458 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1459 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1461 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1462 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1463 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1464 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1467 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1468 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1469 (documentation has been updated too)
1471 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1472 spanish translation of menus
1474 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1475 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1476 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1478 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1479 ----------------------------
1481 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1482 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1483 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1484 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1485 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1487 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1488 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1489 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1493 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1494 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1495 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1496 functionally equivalent.
1498 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1499 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1500 symbols displayed properly.
1504 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1505 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1506 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1511 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1512 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1513 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1514 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1515 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1516 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1517 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1518 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1519 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1520 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1524 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1525 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1526 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1527 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1528 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1529 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1530 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1531 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1532 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1533 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1534 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1535 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1536 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1537 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1538 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1540 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1541 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1543 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1544 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1545 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1546 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1547 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1549 ** Reading old files
1551 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1552 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1553 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1554 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1556 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1557 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1558 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1559 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1561 ** Miscellaneous changes
1563 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1564 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1565 configure your font server).
1567 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1568 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1571 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1572 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1575 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1576 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1577 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1581 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1582 ----------------------------
1584 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1585 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1586 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1587 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1591 - updated italian User Guide
1593 - updated french localization
1596 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1597 ----------------------------
1599 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1600 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1605 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1606 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1607 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1609 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1610 when dragging the mouse)
1612 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1613 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1614 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1617 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1618 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1619 who are not aware that it is needed
1621 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1622 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1624 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1625 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1627 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1629 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1631 - update sciword bindings
1633 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1634 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1636 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1640 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1641 ----------------------------
1643 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1644 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1645 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1646 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1651 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1652 when this gets released)
1654 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1655 the performance problems
1657 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1659 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1660 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1661 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1663 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1666 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1667 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1668 help entering of ERT insets)
1670 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1672 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1674 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1676 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1677 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1680 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1682 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1685 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1686 line and have this file created for you
1688 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1689 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1692 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1693 ----------------------------
1695 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1696 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1697 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1698 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1699 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1702 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1703 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1706 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1707 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1710 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1711 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1712 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1714 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1717 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1718 appear in the output.
1720 - New minipage inset
1722 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1723 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1727 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1729 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1730 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1731 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1734 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1738 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1739 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1740 process, among which:
1742 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1744 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1745 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1746 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1748 - support for many amsmath features
1749 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1750 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1751 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1752 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1755 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1757 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1759 - Improvements to the parser
1761 - Improvements to math text mode
1763 - (Better) support for nested macros
1765 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1767 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1769 - GUI support provided for many more features
1772 Other changes include:
1774 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1777 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1778 improved in the process
1780 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1781 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1782 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1784 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1787 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1788 "shelfful", or many german words
1790 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1791 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1792 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1793 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1795 - Updated documentation
1797 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1800 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1802 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1804 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1806 - Babel can be disabled
1808 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1810 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1811 ------------------------------------
1813 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1817 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1819 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1820 appears to be more suitable.
1822 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1823 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1825 - add support for dvipdfm
1827 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1828 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1830 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1833 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1835 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1838 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1840 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1843 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1844 ------------------------------------
1846 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1850 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1853 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1854 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1856 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1859 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1860 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1862 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1863 Theoretical Computer Science
1865 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1867 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1868 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1870 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1871 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1872 with the older version
1875 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1876 ------------------------------------
1878 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1882 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1884 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1885 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1886 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1888 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1889 documentation update.
1891 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1894 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1895 ------------------------------------
1897 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1901 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1902 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1904 - better support for ukrainian language
1906 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1907 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1909 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1910 line-delete-forward.
1912 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1914 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1917 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1918 --------------------------------
1920 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1921 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1922 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1924 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1925 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1926 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1927 from the older development version:
1929 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1930 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1931 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1932 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1933 have been overhauled.
1935 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1938 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1939 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1941 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1943 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1944 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1945 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1947 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1949 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1950 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1951 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1952 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1953 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1954 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1955 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1957 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1958 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1959 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1962 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1963 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1964 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1965 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1966 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1967 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1969 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1970 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1971 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1972 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1973 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1975 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1977 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1979 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1980 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1981 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1982 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1983 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1984 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1986 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1988 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1991 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1992 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1994 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1995 mentioned here for your information
1997 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1998 (this can be changed in preferences).
2000 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
2005 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
2006 --------------------------------
2008 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
2009 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
2010 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
2012 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
2013 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
2015 User-visible changes:
2017 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
2019 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
2021 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
2023 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
2025 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
2026 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
2028 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
2029 command-line/window:
2030 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
2032 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
2033 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
2035 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
2037 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
2039 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
2041 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
2042 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
2043 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
2044 (And you probably had the error always.)
2046 - Better definition for LyXList style.
2048 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
2049 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
2051 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
2053 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
2054 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
2055 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
2056 support is of course not supported in older versions.
2058 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
2060 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
2061 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
2063 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
2064 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
2066 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
2067 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
2068 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
2069 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
2072 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
2073 --------------------------------
2075 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
2076 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
2077 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
2080 In the user-visible department, we find:
2082 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
2083 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
2084 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
2085 the GUI pops up during the process...
2087 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
2089 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
2090 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
2092 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
2093 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
2094 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
2095 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
2097 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
2100 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
2101 --------------------------------
2103 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
2104 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
2106 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
2107 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
2108 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
2110 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
2111 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
2114 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
2117 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
2119 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
2120 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
2121 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
2122 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
2123 for the sake of correctness.
2125 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
2126 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
2128 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
2129 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
2131 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
2133 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
2135 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
2137 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
2138 --------------------------------
2140 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
2142 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
2143 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
2144 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
2146 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
2148 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
2150 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
2152 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
2153 has also been fixed.
2155 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
2156 --------------------------------
2158 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
2159 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
2160 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
2161 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
2162 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
2163 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
2165 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
2167 - New export to HTML feature
2169 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
2171 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
2172 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
2173 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
2175 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
2176 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
2177 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
2179 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
2180 --------------------------------------------------
2182 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
2183 new features has been included:
2189 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
2191 - Several language files updated.
2193 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
2195 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
2196 --------------------------------------------------
2198 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
2200 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
2203 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
2205 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
2207 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
2208 --------------------------------------------------
2210 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
2211 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2213 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
2215 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
2216 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
2218 - Better multipart document support.
2220 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
2223 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
2226 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
2227 --------------------------------------------------
2229 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
2230 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2232 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
2234 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
2236 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
2238 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
2240 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
2244 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
2245 ----------------------------------------------------
2247 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2248 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2250 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2251 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2252 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2253 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2254 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2256 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2257 footnotes, and generally better output.
2259 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2260 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2261 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2262 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2263 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2265 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2266 and error message translations) for several languages.
2268 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2269 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2270 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2272 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2274 - Improved table support.
2276 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2278 - easier handling of index entries.
2280 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2281 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2282 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2283 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2286 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2287 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as