1 What's new in version 2.0.0?
2 -------------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
5 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
8 What's new in version 1.6.0?
9 -------------------------------
11 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
12 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
15 What's new in version 1.5.6?
16 ----------------------------
18 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
19 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
20 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
21 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
24 What's new in version 1.5.5?
25 ----------------------------
27 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
28 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
29 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
30 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
31 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
34 What's new in version 1.5.4?
35 ----------------------------
37 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
38 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
39 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
40 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
43 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
44 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
45 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
46 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
47 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
50 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
51 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
52 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
53 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
54 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
55 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
56 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
57 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
60 What's new in version 1.5.3?
61 ----------------------------
63 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
64 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
65 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
66 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
67 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
68 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
69 version also provides some new features.
72 What's new in version 1.5.2?
73 ----------------------------
75 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
76 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
77 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
78 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
81 What's new in version 1.5.1?
82 ----------------------------
84 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
85 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
86 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
87 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
88 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
90 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
93 What's new in version 1.5.0?
94 ----------------------------
96 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
97 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
98 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
102 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
103 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
104 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
105 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
106 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
107 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
108 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
109 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
110 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
111 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
114 * Integrated CJK support
116 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
117 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
118 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
120 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
121 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
122 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
123 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
127 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
128 have full user interface support.
130 * Multiple views of the same buffer
132 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
133 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
134 parts of it synchronously.
136 * Outliner and embedded TOC
138 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
139 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
140 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
141 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
145 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
146 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
147 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
148 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
149 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
150 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
154 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
155 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
158 * New Font Selection Interface
160 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
161 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
162 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
166 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
167 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
168 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
172 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
173 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
174 glossaries and fancy notations.
178 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
180 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
182 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
183 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
184 to the math toolbars.
185 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
186 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
190 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
191 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
192 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
193 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
194 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
195 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
196 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
197 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
200 * Change tracking enhancements
202 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
203 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
205 * Converter file cache
207 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
208 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
209 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
210 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
211 is enabled by default.
213 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
216 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
218 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
220 * Unified Windows installer
222 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
223 both installers are welcome.
227 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
228 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
229 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
231 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
232 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
234 * LaTeX-package support
236 LyX provides the following new document classes:
237 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
238 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
239 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
240 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
241 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
243 * Minor user interface improvements
245 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
247 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
248 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
249 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
251 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
253 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
254 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
255 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
256 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
257 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
258 even after the selection has been cleared.
260 * Limited support for local class and layout files
262 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
263 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
264 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
265 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
266 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
267 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
268 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
272 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
273 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
274 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
275 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
276 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
277 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
278 series has been to bring this speed back.
282 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
283 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
286 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
287 ------------------------------
289 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
290 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
293 What's new in version 1.4.5?
294 ----------------------------
296 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
297 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
298 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
299 python 2.3.4 or later).
302 What's new in version 1.4.4?
303 ----------------------------
305 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
307 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
308 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
310 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
311 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
313 *) Improved documentation.
315 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
318 What's new in version 1.4.3?
319 ----------------------------
321 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
322 support. Notable new features include:
324 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
325 installation anymore.
327 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
328 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
329 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
330 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
332 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
336 What's new in version 1.4.2?
337 ----------------------------
339 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
341 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
342 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
344 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
346 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
347 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
348 be compressed on disk or not.
350 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
351 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
352 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
355 What's new in version 1.4.1?
356 ----------------------------
358 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
360 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
361 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
363 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
366 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
368 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
370 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
371 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
374 What's new in version 1.4.0?
375 ----------------------------
377 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
378 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
379 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
381 ** Improved user interface
383 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
384 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
385 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
386 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
387 classic UI) is still available, for now.
389 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
390 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
391 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
392 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
393 available: one for tables, and one for math.
395 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
396 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
401 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
402 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
403 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
406 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
408 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
409 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
410 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
411 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
415 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
416 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
417 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
418 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
424 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
425 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
426 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
428 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
429 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
430 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
432 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
434 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
435 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
440 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
441 the Insert>Note menu:
443 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
444 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
446 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
447 well, greyed-out text.
449 ** Better language and numbering on screen
451 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
453 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
454 the language of the document, which may be different from the
455 language of the menus;
456 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
457 document class specifications.
461 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
462 count of the document or of the current selection.
466 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
467 of errors popping up at compilation time.
469 ** Improved bibliography support
471 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
472 "before citation" field is supported;
473 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
474 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
476 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
477 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
478 index processor is invoked).
480 ** Improved microtypography support
482 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
484 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
485 between "e." and "g.");
486 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
487 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
488 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
489 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
490 much space between figure/table and caption.
494 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
496 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
499 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
500 edit the included figure
502 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
503 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
507 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
508 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
511 What's new in version 1.3.7?
512 ----------------------------
514 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
515 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
518 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
519 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
521 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
522 installer and in the handling of file names.
524 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
527 What's new in version 1.3.6?
528 ----------------------------
530 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
532 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
533 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
534 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
535 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
536 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
537 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
538 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
540 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
541 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
542 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
544 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
545 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
546 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
547 considered as part of words
551 What's new in version 1.3.5?
552 ----------------------------
554 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
555 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
556 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
557 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
558 case where the files are in different directories.
559 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
561 What's new in version 1.3.4?
562 ----------------------------
564 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
566 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
567 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
568 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
569 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
571 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
572 * The interface and documentation localization have
575 What's new in version 1.3.3?
576 ----------------------------
578 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
580 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
581 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
582 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
583 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
584 the user interface and documentation.
586 What's new in version 1.3.2?
587 ----------------------------
589 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
591 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
593 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
594 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
597 What's new in version 1.3.1?
598 ----------------------------
600 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
601 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
602 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
603 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
604 improvements) for good measure.
608 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
609 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
611 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
612 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
614 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
615 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
616 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
617 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
620 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
621 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
622 (documentation has been updated too)
624 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
625 spanish translation of menus
627 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
628 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
629 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
631 What's new in version 1.3.0?
632 ----------------------------
634 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
635 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
636 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
637 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
638 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
640 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
641 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
642 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
646 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
647 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
648 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
649 functionally equivalent.
651 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
652 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
653 symbols displayed properly.
657 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
658 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
659 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
664 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
665 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
666 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
667 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
668 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
669 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
670 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
671 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
672 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
673 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
677 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
678 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
679 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
680 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
681 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
682 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
683 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
684 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
685 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
686 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
687 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
688 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
689 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
690 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
691 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
693 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
694 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
696 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
697 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
698 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
699 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
700 the inset and press 'backspace'.
704 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
705 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
706 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
707 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
709 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
710 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
711 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
712 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
714 ** Miscellaneous changes
716 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
717 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
718 configure your font server).
720 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
721 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
724 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
725 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
728 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
729 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
730 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
734 What's new in version 1.2.3?
735 ----------------------------
737 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
738 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
739 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
740 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
744 - updated italian User Guide
746 - updated french localization
749 What's new in version 1.2.2?
750 ----------------------------
752 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
753 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
758 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
759 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
760 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
762 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
763 when dragging the mouse)
765 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
766 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
767 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
770 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
771 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
772 who are not aware that it is needed
774 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
775 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
777 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
778 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
780 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
782 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
784 - update sciword bindings
786 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
787 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
789 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
793 What's new in version 1.2.1?
794 ----------------------------
796 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
797 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
798 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
799 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
804 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
805 when this gets released)
807 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
808 the performance problems
810 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
812 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
813 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
814 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
816 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
819 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
820 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
821 help entering of ERT insets)
823 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
825 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
827 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
829 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
830 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
833 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
835 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
838 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
839 line and have this file created for you
841 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
842 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
845 What's new in version 1.2.0?
846 ----------------------------
848 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
849 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
850 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
851 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
852 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
855 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
856 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
859 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
860 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
863 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
864 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
865 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
867 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
870 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
871 appear in the output.
875 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
876 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
880 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
882 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
883 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
884 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
887 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
891 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
892 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
893 process, among which:
895 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
897 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
898 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
899 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
901 - support for many amsmath features
902 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
903 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
904 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
905 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
908 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
910 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
912 - Improvements to the parser
914 - Improvements to math text mode
916 - (Better) support for nested macros
918 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
920 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
922 - GUI support provided for many more features
925 Other changes include:
927 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
930 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
931 improved in the process
933 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
934 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
935 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
937 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
940 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
941 "shelfful", or many german words
943 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
944 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
945 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
946 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
948 - Updated documentation
950 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
953 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
955 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
957 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
959 - Babel can be disabled
961 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
963 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
964 ------------------------------------
966 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
970 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
972 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
973 appears to be more suitable.
975 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
976 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
978 - add support for dvipdfm
980 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
981 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
983 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
986 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
988 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
991 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
993 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
996 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
997 ------------------------------------
999 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1003 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1006 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1007 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1009 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1012 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1013 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1015 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1016 Theoretical Computer Science
1018 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1020 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1021 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1023 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1024 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1025 with the older version
1028 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1029 ------------------------------------
1031 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1035 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1037 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1038 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1039 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1041 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1042 documentation update.
1044 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1047 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1048 ------------------------------------
1050 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1054 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1055 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1057 - better support for ukrainian language
1059 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1060 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1062 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1063 line-delete-forward.
1065 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1067 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1070 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1071 --------------------------------
1073 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1074 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1075 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1077 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1078 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1079 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1080 from the older development version:
1082 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1083 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1084 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1085 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1086 have been overhauled.
1088 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1091 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1092 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1094 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1096 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1097 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1098 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1100 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1102 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1103 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1104 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1105 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1106 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1107 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1108 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1110 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1111 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1112 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1115 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1116 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1117 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1118 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1119 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1120 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1122 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1123 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1124 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1125 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1126 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1128 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1130 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1132 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1133 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1134 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1135 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1136 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1137 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1139 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1141 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1144 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1145 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1147 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1148 mentioned here for your information
1150 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1151 (this can be changed in preferences).
1153 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1158 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1159 --------------------------------
1161 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1162 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1163 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1165 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1166 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1168 User-visible changes:
1170 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1172 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1174 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1176 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1178 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1179 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1181 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1182 command-line/window:
1183 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1185 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1186 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1188 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1190 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1192 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1194 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1195 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1196 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1197 (And you probably had the error always.)
1199 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1201 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1202 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1204 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1206 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1207 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1208 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1209 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1211 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1213 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1214 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1216 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1217 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1219 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1220 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1221 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1222 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1225 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1226 --------------------------------
1228 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1229 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1230 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1233 In the user-visible department, we find:
1235 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1236 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1237 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1238 the GUI pops up during the process...
1240 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1242 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1243 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1245 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1246 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1247 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1248 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1250 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1253 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1254 --------------------------------
1256 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1257 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1259 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1260 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1261 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1263 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1264 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1267 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1270 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1272 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1273 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1274 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1275 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1276 for the sake of correctness.
1278 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1279 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1281 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1282 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1284 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1286 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1288 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1290 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1291 --------------------------------
1293 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1295 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1296 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1297 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1299 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1301 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1303 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1305 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1306 has also been fixed.
1308 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1309 --------------------------------
1311 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1312 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1313 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1314 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1315 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1316 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1318 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1320 - New export to HTML feature
1322 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1324 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1325 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1326 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1328 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1329 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1330 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1332 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1333 --------------------------------------------------
1335 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1336 new features has been included:
1342 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1344 - Several language files updated.
1346 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1348 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1349 --------------------------------------------------
1351 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1353 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1356 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1358 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1360 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1361 --------------------------------------------------
1363 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1364 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1366 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1368 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1369 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1371 - Better multipart document support.
1373 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1376 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1379 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1380 --------------------------------------------------
1382 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1383 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1385 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1387 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1389 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1391 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1393 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1397 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1398 ----------------------------------------------------
1400 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1401 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1403 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1404 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1405 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1406 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1407 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1409 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1410 footnotes, and generally better output.
1412 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1413 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1414 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1415 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1416 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1418 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1419 and error message translations) for several languages.
1421 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1422 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1423 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1425 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1427 - Improved table support.
1429 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1431 - easier handling of index entries.
1433 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1434 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1435 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1436 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1439 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1440 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as