1 What's new in version 1.6.0alpha1?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
8 What's new in version 1.5.1?
9 ----------------------------
14 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
16 - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390).
22 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
24 - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set.
25 This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1
26 earlier than anticipated.
28 - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language
31 - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some
34 - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086).
36 - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094).
40 - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096).
42 - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969).
44 - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse
47 - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only).
49 - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection
50 is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672).
52 - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected
53 text in the URL inset (bug 683).
55 - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when
56 updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).
58 - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on
59 platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076).
61 - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571).
63 - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023).
68 - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which
69 can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct.
71 - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument
72 converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also
73 checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor.
75 - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed.
78 What's new in version 1.5.0?
79 ----------------------------
81 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
82 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
83 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
87 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
88 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
89 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
90 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
91 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
92 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
93 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
94 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
95 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
96 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
99 * Integrated CJK support
101 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
102 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
103 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
105 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
106 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
107 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
108 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
112 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
113 have full user interface support.
115 * Multiple views of the same buffer
117 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
118 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
119 parts of it synchronously.
121 * Outliner and embedded TOC
123 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
124 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
125 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
126 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
130 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
131 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
132 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
133 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
134 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
135 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
139 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
140 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
143 * New Font Selection Interface
145 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
146 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
147 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
151 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
152 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
153 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
157 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
158 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
159 glossaries and fancy notations.
163 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
165 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
167 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
168 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
169 to the math toolbars.
170 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
171 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
175 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
176 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
177 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
178 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
179 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
180 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
181 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
182 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
185 * Change tracking enhancements
187 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
188 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
190 * Converter file cache
192 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
193 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
194 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
195 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
196 is enabled by default.
198 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
201 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
203 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
205 * Unified Windows installer
207 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
208 both installers are welcome.
212 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
213 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
214 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
216 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
217 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
219 * LaTeX-package support
221 LyX provides the following new document classes:
222 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
223 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
224 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
225 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
226 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
228 * Minor user interface improvements
230 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
232 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
233 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
234 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
236 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
238 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
239 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
240 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
241 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
242 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
243 even after the selection has been cleared.
245 * Limited support for local class and layout files
247 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
248 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
249 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
250 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
251 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
252 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
253 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
257 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
258 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
259 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
260 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
261 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
262 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
263 series has been to bring this speed back.
267 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
268 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
271 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
272 ----------------------------
274 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
275 We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
276 any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
277 in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
279 Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
280 and polished the graphical interface.
282 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
283 ----------------------------
285 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
286 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
287 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
288 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
290 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
291 ----------------------------
293 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
294 and added some improvements:
296 * A new inset to support code listings.
297 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
298 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
300 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
301 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
303 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
304 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
307 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
308 ----------------------------
310 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
311 added some graphical improvements:
312 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
313 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
314 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
316 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
317 the user interface have been made, such as:
319 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
320 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
321 - Support optional argument for environments
323 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
324 ----------------------------
328 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
329 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
330 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
331 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
332 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
333 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
334 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
335 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
336 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
337 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
340 * Integrated CJK support
342 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
343 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
345 * Multiple views of the same buffer
347 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
348 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
349 parts of it synchronously.
353 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
354 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
355 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
360 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
361 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
362 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
363 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
364 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
365 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
369 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
370 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
373 * New Font Selection Interface
375 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
376 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
377 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
381 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
382 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
383 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
388 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
389 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
390 glossaries and fancy notations.
394 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
398 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
399 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
400 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
401 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
402 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
403 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
404 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
405 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
408 * Change tracking enhancements
410 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
411 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
413 * Converter file cache
415 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
416 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
417 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
418 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
419 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
420 you want to use it, add the line
421 \use_converter_cache true
423 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
424 6 months. You can change that with the line
425 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
427 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
429 * Unified Windows installer
431 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
432 both installers are welcome.
436 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
437 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
438 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
439 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
440 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
441 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
442 series has been to bring this speed back.
445 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
446 ------------------------------
448 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
449 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
452 What's new in version 1.4.5?
453 ----------------------------
458 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
460 - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
466 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
468 - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
470 - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
473 - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
475 - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
478 - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
482 - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
483 last paragraph (bug 3303).
485 - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
486 math insets (bug 3358).
488 - Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
490 - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
492 - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
494 - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
496 - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
499 - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
501 - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
502 Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
504 - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
506 - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
509 - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
512 - Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
514 - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
516 - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
518 - Fix undo for special characters.
520 - Fix gui for big delimiters.
522 - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
523 delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
525 - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
527 - Fix example for docbook-article.
529 - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
531 - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
536 - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
539 - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
541 - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
543 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
545 - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
547 - Allow automake 1.10 for building.
549 - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
550 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
551 2.3.x python releases).
554 What's new in version 1.4.4?
555 ----------------------------
560 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
562 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
564 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
566 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
567 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
568 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
569 if you want to use this feature.
571 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
573 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
574 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
575 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
576 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
577 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
579 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
583 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
584 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
586 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
587 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
589 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
590 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
593 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
595 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
596 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
598 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
600 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
601 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
602 floats, notes, and boxes.
604 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
606 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
607 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
609 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
610 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
611 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
617 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
619 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
620 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
621 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
623 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
626 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
628 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
630 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
633 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
636 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
638 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
641 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
642 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
643 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
645 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
647 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
649 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
652 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
654 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
657 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
659 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
661 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
663 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
665 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
666 it cannot be omitted.
670 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
672 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
674 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
675 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
677 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
678 taller than the workarea.
680 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
681 related to large insets.
683 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
684 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
687 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
688 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
690 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
693 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
696 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
698 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
700 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
701 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
703 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
704 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
705 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
707 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
710 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
711 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
713 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
715 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
717 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
719 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
720 inset, do not open it by mistake.
722 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
723 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
725 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
727 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
729 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
731 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
733 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
736 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
738 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
740 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
742 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
744 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
746 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
748 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
750 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
751 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
753 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
755 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
757 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
759 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
761 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
764 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
765 a document. This is fixed.
767 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
768 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
769 (bug 3066) [qt only].
771 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
772 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
774 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
775 in preferences (bug 895)
777 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
780 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
782 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
784 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
788 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
790 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
793 What's new in version 1.4.3?
794 ----------------------------
798 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
799 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
801 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
802 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
805 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
807 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
809 - Some small updates to the documentation.
811 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
812 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
814 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
815 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
819 * Document Input/Output
821 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
823 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
826 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
828 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
829 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
831 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
832 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
835 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
836 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
838 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
839 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
841 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
843 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
845 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
847 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
851 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
852 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
854 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
855 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
857 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
858 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
860 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
862 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
864 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
866 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
868 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
871 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
873 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
875 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
877 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
880 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
882 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
883 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
885 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
886 if it exists (bug 2779).
888 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
889 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
891 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
892 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
894 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
896 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
898 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
900 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
902 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
903 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
905 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
906 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
908 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
910 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
912 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
914 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
916 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
917 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
919 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
920 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
922 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
924 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
925 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
927 * Build/installation:
929 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
931 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
932 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
934 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
935 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
937 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
939 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
941 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
942 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
943 package under cygwin.
945 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
946 development/cmake/README.cmake
948 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
949 project and scons or CMake.
953 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
955 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
957 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
959 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
961 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
962 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
964 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
966 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
970 What's new in version 1.4.2?
971 ----------------------------
975 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
976 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
978 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
979 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
982 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
983 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
985 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
986 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
988 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
990 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
991 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
992 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
994 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
995 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
998 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
1000 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
1002 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
1004 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
1005 the math panel yet.)
1011 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
1013 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
1016 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
1017 an inset (bug 2526).
1019 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
1020 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
1022 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
1023 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
1025 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
1028 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
1029 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
1031 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
1034 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
1035 change tracking mode.
1037 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
1038 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
1040 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
1041 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
1043 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
1044 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
1046 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
1049 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
1052 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
1054 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
1055 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
1057 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
1059 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
1060 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
1062 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
1064 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
1066 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
1070 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
1073 - Fix undo in matrices.
1075 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
1077 * Document input/output:
1079 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
1082 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
1083 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
1085 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
1086 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
1087 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
1089 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
1091 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
1094 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
1096 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
1098 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
1100 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
1102 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
1103 pdflatex (bug 2235).
1105 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
1107 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
1111 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
1112 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
1113 has also been pythonified.
1115 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
1118 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
1119 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
1120 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
1121 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
1123 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
1124 directory on Windows.
1126 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
1127 rename the executable files.
1129 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
1130 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
1132 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
1134 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
1135 in the source package.
1137 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
1140 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
1142 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
1143 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
1146 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
1147 support via zlib is now a requirement.
1149 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
1152 What's new in version 1.4.1?
1153 ----------------------------
1157 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
1160 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
1161 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
1162 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
1164 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
1165 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
1167 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
1173 * Document input/output:
1175 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
1177 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
1179 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
1182 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
1184 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
1186 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
1188 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
1190 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
1193 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
1195 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
1197 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
1199 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
1201 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
1202 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
1203 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
1208 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
1210 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
1212 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
1214 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
1217 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
1220 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
1222 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
1224 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
1226 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
1231 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
1233 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
1235 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
1236 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
1238 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
1240 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
1242 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
1243 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
1245 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
1246 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
1248 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
1250 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
1252 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
1254 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
1255 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
1257 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
1259 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
1261 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
1263 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
1265 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
1267 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
1269 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
1271 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
1273 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
1275 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
1276 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
1278 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
1281 * Configuration/Installation:
1283 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
1284 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
1286 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
1289 What's new in version 1.4.0?
1290 ----------------------------
1292 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
1293 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
1294 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
1296 ** Improved user interface
1298 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
1299 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
1300 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
1301 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
1302 classic UI) is still available, for now.
1304 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
1305 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
1306 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
1307 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
1308 available: one for tables, and one for math.
1310 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
1311 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1316 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1317 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1318 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1321 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1323 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1324 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1325 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1326 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1330 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1331 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1332 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1333 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1339 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1340 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1341 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1343 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1344 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1345 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1347 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1349 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1350 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1355 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1356 the Insert>Note menu:
1358 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1359 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1361 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1362 well, greyed-out text.
1364 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1366 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1368 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1369 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1370 language of the menus;
1371 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1372 document class specifications.
1376 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1377 count of the document or of the current selection.
1381 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1382 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1384 ** Improved bibliography support
1386 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1387 "before citation" field is supported;
1388 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1389 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1391 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1392 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1393 index processor is invoked).
1395 ** Improved microtypography support
1397 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1399 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1400 between "e." and "g.");
1401 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1402 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1403 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1404 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1405 much space between figure/table and caption.
1409 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1411 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1414 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1415 edit the included figure
1417 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1418 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1422 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1423 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1426 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1427 ----------------------------
1429 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1430 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1433 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1434 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1436 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1437 installer and in the handling of file names.
1439 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1442 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1443 ----------------------------
1445 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1447 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1448 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1449 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1450 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1451 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1452 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1453 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1455 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1456 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1457 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1459 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1460 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1461 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1462 considered as part of words
1466 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1467 ----------------------------
1469 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1470 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1471 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1472 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1473 case where the files are in different directories.
1474 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1476 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1477 ----------------------------
1479 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1481 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1482 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1483 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1484 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1486 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1487 * The interface and documentation localization have
1490 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1491 ----------------------------
1493 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1495 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1496 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1497 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1498 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1499 the user interface and documentation.
1501 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1502 ----------------------------
1504 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1506 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1508 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1509 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1512 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1513 ----------------------------
1515 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1516 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1517 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1518 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1519 improvements) for good measure.
1523 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1524 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1526 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1527 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1529 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1530 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1531 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1532 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1535 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1536 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1537 (documentation has been updated too)
1539 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1540 spanish translation of menus
1542 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1543 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1544 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1546 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1547 ----------------------------
1549 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1550 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1551 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1552 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1553 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1555 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1556 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1557 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1561 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1562 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1563 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1564 functionally equivalent.
1566 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1567 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1568 symbols displayed properly.
1572 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1573 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1574 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1579 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1580 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1581 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1582 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1583 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1584 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1585 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1586 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1587 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1588 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1592 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1593 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1594 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1595 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1596 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1597 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1598 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1599 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1600 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1601 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1602 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1603 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1604 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1605 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1606 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1608 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1609 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1611 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1612 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1613 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1614 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1615 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1617 ** Reading old files
1619 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1620 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1621 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1622 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1624 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1625 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1626 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1627 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1629 ** Miscellaneous changes
1631 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1632 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1633 configure your font server).
1635 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1636 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1639 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1640 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1643 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1644 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1645 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1649 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1650 ----------------------------
1652 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1653 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1654 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1655 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1659 - updated italian User Guide
1661 - updated french localization
1664 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1665 ----------------------------
1667 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1668 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1673 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1674 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1675 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1677 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1678 when dragging the mouse)
1680 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1681 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1682 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1685 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1686 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1687 who are not aware that it is needed
1689 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1690 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1692 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1693 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1695 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1697 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1699 - update sciword bindings
1701 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1702 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1704 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1708 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1709 ----------------------------
1711 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1712 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1713 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1714 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1719 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1720 when this gets released)
1722 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1723 the performance problems
1725 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1727 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1728 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1729 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1731 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1734 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1735 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1736 help entering of ERT insets)
1738 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1740 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1742 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1744 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1745 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1748 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1750 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1753 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1754 line and have this file created for you
1756 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1757 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1760 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1761 ----------------------------
1763 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1764 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1765 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1766 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1767 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1770 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1771 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1774 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1775 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1778 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1779 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1780 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1782 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1785 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1786 appear in the output.
1788 - New minipage inset
1790 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1791 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1795 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1797 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1798 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1799 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1802 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1806 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1807 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1808 process, among which:
1810 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1812 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1813 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1814 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1816 - support for many amsmath features
1817 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1818 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1819 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1820 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1823 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1825 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1827 - Improvements to the parser
1829 - Improvements to math text mode
1831 - (Better) support for nested macros
1833 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1835 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1837 - GUI support provided for many more features
1840 Other changes include:
1842 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1845 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1846 improved in the process
1848 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1849 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1850 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1852 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1855 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1856 "shelfful", or many german words
1858 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1859 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1860 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1861 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1863 - Updated documentation
1865 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1868 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1870 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1872 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1874 - Babel can be disabled
1876 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1878 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1879 ------------------------------------
1881 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1885 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1887 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1888 appears to be more suitable.
1890 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1891 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1893 - add support for dvipdfm
1895 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1896 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1898 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1901 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1903 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1906 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1908 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1911 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1912 ------------------------------------
1914 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1918 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1921 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1922 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1924 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1927 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1928 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1930 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1931 Theoretical Computer Science
1933 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1935 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1936 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1938 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1939 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1940 with the older version
1943 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1944 ------------------------------------
1946 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1950 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1952 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1953 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1954 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1956 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1957 documentation update.
1959 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1962 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1963 ------------------------------------
1965 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1969 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1970 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1972 - better support for ukrainian language
1974 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1975 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1977 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1978 line-delete-forward.
1980 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1982 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1985 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1986 --------------------------------
1988 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1989 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1990 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1992 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1993 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1994 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1995 from the older development version:
1997 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1998 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1999 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
2000 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
2001 have been overhauled.
2003 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
2006 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
2007 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
2009 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
2011 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
2012 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
2013 will give you an idea of what is happening.
2015 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
2017 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
2018 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
2019 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
2020 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
2021 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
2022 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
2023 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
2025 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
2026 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
2027 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
2030 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
2031 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
2032 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
2033 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
2034 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
2035 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
2037 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
2038 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
2039 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
2040 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
2041 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
2043 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
2045 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
2047 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
2048 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
2049 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
2050 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
2051 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
2052 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
2054 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
2056 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
2059 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
2060 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
2062 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
2063 mentioned here for your information
2065 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
2066 (this can be changed in preferences).
2068 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
2073 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
2074 --------------------------------
2076 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
2077 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
2078 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
2080 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
2081 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
2083 User-visible changes:
2085 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
2087 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
2089 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
2091 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
2093 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
2094 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
2096 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
2097 command-line/window:
2098 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
2100 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
2101 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
2103 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
2105 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
2107 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
2109 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
2110 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
2111 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
2112 (And you probably had the error always.)
2114 - Better definition for LyXList style.
2116 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
2117 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
2119 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
2121 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
2122 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
2123 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
2124 support is of course not supported in older versions.
2126 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
2128 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
2129 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
2131 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
2132 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
2134 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
2135 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
2136 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
2137 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
2140 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
2141 --------------------------------
2143 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
2144 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
2145 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
2148 In the user-visible department, we find:
2150 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
2151 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
2152 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
2153 the GUI pops up during the process...
2155 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
2157 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
2158 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
2160 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
2161 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
2162 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
2163 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
2165 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
2168 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
2169 --------------------------------
2171 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
2172 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
2174 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
2175 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
2176 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
2178 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
2179 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
2182 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
2185 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
2187 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
2188 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
2189 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
2190 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
2191 for the sake of correctness.
2193 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
2194 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
2196 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
2197 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
2199 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
2201 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
2203 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
2205 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
2206 --------------------------------
2208 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
2210 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
2211 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
2212 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
2214 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
2216 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
2218 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
2220 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
2221 has also been fixed.
2223 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
2224 --------------------------------
2226 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
2227 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
2228 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
2229 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
2230 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
2231 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
2233 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
2235 - New export to HTML feature
2237 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
2239 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
2240 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
2241 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
2243 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
2244 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
2245 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
2247 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
2248 --------------------------------------------------
2250 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
2251 new features has been included:
2257 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
2259 - Several language files updated.
2261 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
2263 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
2264 --------------------------------------------------
2266 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
2268 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
2271 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
2273 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
2275 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
2276 --------------------------------------------------
2278 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
2279 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2281 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
2283 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
2284 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
2286 - Better multipart document support.
2288 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
2291 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
2294 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
2295 --------------------------------------------------
2297 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
2298 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2300 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
2302 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
2304 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
2306 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
2308 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
2312 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
2313 ----------------------------------------------------
2315 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2316 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2318 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2319 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2320 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2321 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2322 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2324 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2325 footnotes, and generally better output.
2327 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2328 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2329 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2330 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2331 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2333 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2334 and error message translations) for several languages.
2336 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2337 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2338 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2340 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2342 - Improved table support.
2344 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2346 - easier handling of index entries.
2348 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2349 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2350 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2351 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2354 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2355 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as