1 What's new in version 2.4.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 The new features in LyX 2.4 are detailed in
5 https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
7 * DocBook 5 / ePub / XHTML 5 support
8 * Default Unicode for new documents
9 * Table improvements (styles and other)
10 * Redesign of Find/Replace dialog
11 * Flexible text fields
13 * Global float settings
14 * Insets external editing
19 What's new in version 2.3.7?
20 ----------------------------
22 LyX 2.3.7 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
23 more reliable and more stable. Since it has been quite a long time (for
24 unsurprising reasons) since the last update, this one contains more fixes
25 than usual. We have fixed a number of crashes.
27 What's new in version 2.3.6?
28 ----------------------------
30 LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
31 result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
32 more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
33 but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
35 One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
36 new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
37 possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
38 table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
41 What's new in version 2.3.5?
42 ----------------------------
44 LyX 2.3.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
46 LyX 2.3.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
47 reliable and more stable. Most of the changes are incremental, but quite a
48 few important bugs have now been fixed.
50 One important change is that Inkscape 1.0 is now supported: It will be detected
51 and configured automatically. Users of previous versions have recently reported
52 configuration failures when Inkscape 1.0 is installed, leading to an incomplete
53 (and all but unusable) installation of LyX. This should also be fixed.
56 What's new in version 2.3.4?
57 ----------------------------
59 LyX 2.3.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
61 LyX 2.3.4 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
62 reliable and more stable. One important change is that we have finally fixed
63 a large number of bugs related to bibitems (see bug #7548). We have also (we
64 hope) fixed a long-standing bug involving the saving of files on Windows to
65 Dropbox folders and another involving missing included files.
68 What's new in version 2.3.3?
69 ----------------------------
71 LyX 2.3.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
73 LyX 2.3.3 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
74 reliable and more stable. One important change is that emergency files are
75 now renamed when users wish to save them. As a result, older emergency files
76 are not over-written. One major update allows for the editing of the contents
77 of the user-provided premable, and the contents of ERT insets, in external
78 editors, a request that goes back to 2003 and bug #991.
81 What's new in version 2.3.2?
82 ----------------------------
84 LyX 2.3.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
86 LyX 2.3.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more
87 reliable and more stable. One main fix involves a crash with external viewers
88 on Windows. We have also fixed a number of problems with the output of right-
89 to-left languages, thanks to the involvement of users. There was also an
90 infinite loop bug connected with the separation of environments that has been
91 fixed. But, for the most part, the fixes here are incremental.
94 What's new in version 2.3.1?
95 ----------------------------
97 LyX 2.3.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series.
99 We have fixed a number of bugs and added some new features. Perhaps the most
100 important of these is that Jean-Marc Lasgouttes re-wrote the document painting
101 mechanism. This makes LyX snappier, especially on repeated events.
103 All python scripts distributed with LyX should now be compatible with both
104 python 2.x and python 3.x.
106 One oft-requested enhancement was to restore a keyboard shortcut for opening
107 the 'settings' menu of graphics, reference, etc, insets. This is now Control-
108 Alt-i, on Windows and Linux, and Control-Option-i on OSX (assuming you are
109 using the default keybindings).
113 What's new in version 2.3.0?
114 ----------------------------
116 The new features in LyX 2.3 are detailed in
117 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
120 * Multiple bibliographies
122 * Quotation marks enhancements
123 * Updates to reference handling
124 * Improved LaTeX handling in dialogs
126 * New supported languages
127 * New supported LaTeX commands
128 * Improvements to on-screen display of math equations
129 * Automatic detection of file changes
130 * Citation & reference dialogs
131 * Improvements to cursor movement and selection
132 * Improvements to row breaking and alignment
133 * Outliner and navigation menu
134 * Forward/Reverse search and error reporting
136 * Code preview & highlighting
140 What's new in version 2.2.3?
141 ----------------------------
143 LyX 2.2.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
145 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
146 Most of these are relatively minor, but the combined result of fixing
147 them all has led to significant improvements. We encourage all users of
148 2.2.2 to upgrade to this version.
151 What's new in version 2.2.2?
152 ----------------------------
154 LyX 2.2.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.2.x series.
156 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements.
157 Most of these are relatively minor, but we nonetheless encourage all
158 users of 2.2.1 to upgrade to this version.
160 Perhaps the most important bug we fixed affected use of covington.sty with
161 2.2.1. This will only have affected users of the Linguistics module.
163 One new feature is the use of the "scaling" option when exporting images
164 for XHTML. This does not work the same way as with LaTeX export. What it
165 does is add something like "width: 50%" to the style attribute. This will
166 ordinarily be interpreted by the browser as a percentage relative to the
170 What's new in version 2.2.1?
171 ----------------------------
173 LyX 2.2.1 is the first maintenance relase in the 2.2.x series.
175 A large number of bugs have been fixed since the 2.2.0 release.
176 We are pleased to say that most of these were relatively minor:
177 LyX 2.2.0 was perhaps the stable major version release we have
178 produced in a some time. Nontheless, we encourage all users of
179 2.2.0 to upgrade to this version.
182 What's new in version 2.2.0?
183 ----------------------------
185 The new features in LyX 2.2 are detailed in
186 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22
188 * HiDPI display support
190 * New text display algorithm
191 * Horizontal scrolling for large insets
192 * Improved control of paragraph breaks
193 * Improved text color support
194 * Improved box dialog
195 * Improved table context menu
196 * Reworked instant preview
197 * Enhanced source panel
198 * Improved outliner and navigation menu
199 * Enhanced language support
200 * New supported languages
201 * New supported LaTeX commands
202 * Layout enhancements
203 * Module enhancements
204 * New preferences settings
208 What's new in version 2.1.5?
209 ----------------------------
211 We have fixed a number of bugs and made a number of improvements. Many
212 of these were minor, but there were a few crashes we fixed, too.
214 Please note that this is the final release in the 2.1.x series. It is
215 intended for users who for some reason do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x
216 at this time. We strongly encourage all such users to upgrade to this
219 One of the main features of 2.1.5 is its ability to read and write files
220 in the 2.2.x format. Since the conversion process back and forth usually
221 will not leave one with an identical file, however, we do not recommend
222 attempting to collaborate with users of 2.2.x.
225 What's new in version 2.1.4?
226 ----------------------------
228 LyX 2.1.4 is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
230 A large number of bugs have been fixed. Many of these were minor, but
231 there were a few crashes we fixed, too, so we encourage all LyX users
232 to upgrade to this version.
235 What's new in version 2.1.3?
236 ----------------------------
238 LyX 2.1.3 is the third maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
240 A large number of bugs have been fixed, most of them fairly minor. But
241 there were several additional improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion
242 program that should make import of older beamer documents more reliable.
245 What's new in version 2.1.2?
246 ----------------------------
248 LyX 2.1.2 is the second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series.
250 The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem
251 that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0,
252 sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally
253 happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a
254 fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when
255 trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has
258 There are also several other, smaller bug-fixes, including several more
259 improvements to the lyx2lyx conversion scripts. This should make the import
260 of older beamer documents easier.
263 What's new in version 2.1.1?
264 ----------------------------
266 LyX 2.1.1 is the first maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. It is bug-
267 fixing release, and a whole lot of bugs have been fixed. Please see the
268 release announcement for the details.
270 Several users have reported seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, sometimes
271 resulting in dataloss. These crashes appear to happen when the user attempts
272 to save a file, and the dataloss occurs because the original LyX file is over-
273 written by a corrupt file that then cannot be opened. The seemingly random
274 crashes, we believe, are due to auto-save, which is enabled or disabled in
275 Tools> Preferences> Document Handling > "Backup documents every...minutes".
277 Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the cause of this bug, though all
278 known reports seem to involve documents that contain tables, and the corrupt
279 file always ends with: \begin_inset Tabular.
281 To prevent dataloss, we have changed the way LyX saves files if the user
282 has not enabled backups. LyX now renames the existing file before
283 attempting to save the new one (in effect, making a temporary backup).
284 Then, if the save fails, the original file can be restored.
287 What's new in version 2.1.0?
288 ----------------------------
290 The new features in LyX 2.1 are detailed in
291 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
293 * Native IPA inset and IPA toolbar
294 * New supported languages
295 * Tex Fonts Additions
296 * Basic support for Math OpenType fonts
297 * Document class categories
298 * Enhanced support for LaTeX options
299 * New supported LaTeX commands
300 * New export command-line option
302 * Layout enhancements
304 * Equation Editor "mode"
307 What's new in version 2.0.8?
308 ----------------------------
310 LyX 2.0.8 is the final release in the 2.0 series. It is intended for
311 those who for some reason wish or need to continue using LyX 2.0.x. Most
312 users should upgrade to 2.1.0, which is being released simultaneously.
314 This release incorporates a number of important bug fixes, almost all of
315 which are also in 2.1.0. Those that are not will be released with 2.1.1.
316 The most important feature of 2.0.8 is that it is capable of reading and
317 writing files from LyX 2.1.x. Files from the newer format should open in
318 LyX 2.0.8 without the user needing to do anything special. Files can be
319 exported to the 2.1.x format in the usual way: via File> Export.
322 What's new in version 2.0.7?
323 ----------------------------
325 2.0.7 is another bug-fixing release. Most of these are minor, but there
326 is one that is very ipmortant: #8854, which could lead to file corruption
327 in certain cases and, more often, would lead to errors in generated
328 files (e.g., PDFs). We encourage all LyX users to upgrade to this
331 A number of other, less critical bugs have also been fixed. Please see
332 the ANNOUNCE file for details.
335 What's new in version 2.0.6?
336 ----------------------------
338 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
339 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
340 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
343 What's new in version 2.0.5?
344 ----------------------------
346 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
347 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
348 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
349 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
352 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
353 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
354 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
355 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
356 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
357 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
358 - Menu functions are unchanged.
361 What's new in version 2.0.4?
362 ----------------------------
364 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
365 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
366 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
367 git://git.lyx.org/lyx
368 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
369 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
372 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
373 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
374 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
375 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
376 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
378 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
379 will continue for 2.0.5.
382 What's new in version 2.0.3?
383 ----------------------------
385 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
386 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
388 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
389 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
390 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
391 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
392 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
394 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
395 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
398 What's new in version 2.0.2?
399 ----------------------------
401 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
402 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
403 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
405 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
406 below for the details.
408 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
411 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
412 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
413 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
414 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
415 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
418 What's new in version 2.0.1?
419 ----------------------------
421 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
422 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
423 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
424 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
425 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
426 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
430 What's new in version 2.0.0?
431 ----------------------------
433 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
434 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
436 * Advanced Search Facility
437 * Spell-checking on the Fly
438 * Compare Documents Feature
440 * Multilingual Thesaurus
442 * Multiple Indices Support
443 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
444 * Enhanced Instant Preview
445 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
446 * Enhanced Version Control Features
447 * Typesetting in background
450 What's new in version 1.6.10?
451 ------------------------------
452 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
453 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
454 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
455 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
456 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
460 What's new in version 1.6.9?
461 -----------------------------
463 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
464 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
465 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
466 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
469 What's new in version 1.6.8?
470 -----------------------------
472 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
473 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
474 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
475 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
478 What's new in version 1.6.7?
479 -----------------------------
481 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
482 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
483 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
484 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
488 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
489 ------------------------------
491 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
492 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
493 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
494 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
497 What's new in version 1.6.6?
498 -----------------------------
500 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
501 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
502 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
503 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
504 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
505 spelling in parallel).
508 What's new in version 1.6.5?
509 -----------------------------
511 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
512 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
513 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
514 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
515 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
518 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
519 -------------------------------
521 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
522 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
525 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
526 -------------------------------
528 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
529 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
530 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
533 What's new in version 1.6.4?
534 -------------------------------
536 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
537 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
540 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
541 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
542 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
543 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
544 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
545 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
546 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
547 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
550 What's new in version 1.6.3?
551 -------------------------------
553 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
554 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
556 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
557 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
558 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
559 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
561 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
562 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
563 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
564 compiled against Qt 4.5.
567 What's new in version 1.6.2?
568 -------------------------------
570 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
571 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
572 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
573 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
574 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
575 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
576 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
579 What's new in version 1.6.1?
580 -------------------------------
582 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
583 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
584 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
588 What's new in version 1.6.0?
589 -------------------------------
591 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
592 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
594 * Multiple Work Areas
596 * User-formattable Collapsible Insets
598 * Layout combobox changes
599 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
600 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
602 * New implementation of math macros
607 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
608 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
609 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
614 * Graphics parameters groups
615 * LyX functions manual
616 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
619 What's new in version 1.5.7?
620 ----------------------------
622 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
623 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
624 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
625 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
626 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
627 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
630 What's new in version 1.5.6?
631 ----------------------------
633 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
634 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
635 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
636 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
639 What's new in version 1.5.5?
640 ----------------------------
642 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
643 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
644 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
645 been released: the stability issues that occurred in previous versions
646 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
649 What's new in version 1.5.4?
650 ----------------------------
652 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
653 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
654 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
655 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
658 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
659 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
660 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
661 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
662 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
665 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
666 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
667 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
668 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
669 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
670 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
671 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
672 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
675 What's new in version 1.5.3?
676 ----------------------------
678 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
679 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
680 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
681 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
682 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
683 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
684 version also provides some new features.
687 What's new in version 1.5.2?
688 ----------------------------
690 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
691 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
692 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
693 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
696 What's new in version 1.5.1?
697 ----------------------------
699 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
700 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
701 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
702 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
703 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
705 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
708 What's new in version 1.5.0?
709 ----------------------------
711 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
712 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
713 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
717 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
718 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
719 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
720 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
721 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
722 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
723 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
724 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
725 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
726 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
729 * Integrated CJK support
731 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
732 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
733 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
735 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
736 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
737 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
738 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
742 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
743 have full user interface support.
745 * Multiple views of the same buffer
747 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
748 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
749 parts of it synchronously.
751 * Outliner and embedded TOC
753 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
754 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
755 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
756 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
760 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
761 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
762 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
763 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
764 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
765 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
769 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
770 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
773 * New Font Selection Interface
775 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
776 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
777 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
781 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
782 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
783 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
787 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
788 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
789 glossaries and fancy notations.
793 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
795 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
797 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
798 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
799 to the math toolbars.
800 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
801 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
805 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
806 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
807 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
808 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
809 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
810 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
811 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
812 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
815 * Change tracking enhancements
817 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
818 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
820 * Converter file cache
822 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
823 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
824 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
825 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
826 is enabled by default.
828 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
831 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
833 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
835 * Unified Windows installer
837 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
838 both installers are welcome.
842 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
843 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
844 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
846 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
847 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
849 * LaTeX-package support
851 LyX provides the following new document classes:
852 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
853 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
854 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
855 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
856 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
858 * Minor user interface improvements
860 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
862 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
863 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
864 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
866 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
868 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
869 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
870 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
871 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
872 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
873 even after the selection has been cleared.
875 * Limited support for local class and layout files
877 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
878 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
879 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
880 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
881 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
882 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
883 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
887 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
888 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
889 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
890 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
891 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
892 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
893 series has been to bring this speed back.
897 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
898 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
901 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
902 ------------------------------
904 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
905 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
908 What's new in version 1.4.5?
909 ----------------------------
911 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
912 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
913 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
914 python 2.3.4 or later).
917 What's new in version 1.4.4?
918 ----------------------------
920 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
922 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
923 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
925 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
926 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
928 *) Improved documentation.
930 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
933 What's new in version 1.4.3?
934 ----------------------------
936 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
937 support. Notable new features include:
939 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
940 installation anymore.
942 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
943 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
944 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
945 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
947 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
951 What's new in version 1.4.2?
952 ----------------------------
954 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
956 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
957 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
959 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
961 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
962 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
963 be compressed on disk or not.
965 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
966 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
967 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
970 What's new in version 1.4.1?
971 ----------------------------
973 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
975 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
976 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
978 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
981 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
983 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
985 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
986 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
989 What's new in version 1.4.0?
990 ----------------------------
992 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
993 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
994 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
996 ** Improved user interface
998 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
999 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
1000 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
1001 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
1002 classic UI) is still available, for now.
1004 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
1005 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
1006 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
1007 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
1008 available: one for tables, and one for math.
1010 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
1011 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
1016 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
1017 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
1018 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
1021 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
1023 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
1024 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
1025 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
1026 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
1030 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
1031 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
1032 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
1033 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
1039 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
1040 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
1041 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
1043 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
1044 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
1045 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
1047 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
1049 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
1050 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
1055 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
1056 the Insert>Note menu:
1058 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
1059 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
1061 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
1062 well, greyed-out text.
1064 ** Better language and numbering on screen
1066 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
1068 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
1069 the language of the document, which may be different from the
1070 language of the menus;
1071 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
1072 document class specifications.
1076 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
1077 count of the document or of the current selection.
1081 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
1082 of errors popping up at compilation time.
1084 ** Improved bibliography support
1086 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
1087 "before citation" field is supported;
1088 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
1089 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
1091 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
1092 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
1093 index processor is invoked).
1095 ** Improved microtypography support
1097 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
1099 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
1100 between "e." and "g.");
1101 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
1102 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
1103 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
1104 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
1105 much space between figure/table and caption.
1109 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
1111 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
1114 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
1115 edit the included figure
1117 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
1118 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
1122 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1123 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1126 What's new in version 1.3.7?
1127 ----------------------------
1129 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
1130 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
1133 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
1134 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
1136 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
1137 installer and in the handling of file names.
1139 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
1142 What's new in version 1.3.6?
1143 ----------------------------
1145 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
1147 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
1148 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
1149 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
1150 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
1151 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
1152 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
1153 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
1155 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
1156 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
1157 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
1159 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
1160 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
1161 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
1162 considered as part of words
1166 What's new in version 1.3.5?
1167 ----------------------------
1169 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
1170 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
1171 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
1172 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
1173 case where the files are in different directories.
1174 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
1176 What's new in version 1.3.4?
1177 ----------------------------
1179 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
1181 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
1182 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
1183 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
1184 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
1186 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
1187 * The interface and documentation localization have
1190 What's new in version 1.3.3?
1191 ----------------------------
1193 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
1195 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
1196 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1197 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
1198 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1199 the user interface and documentation.
1201 What's new in version 1.3.2?
1202 ----------------------------
1204 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
1206 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
1208 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
1209 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
1212 What's new in version 1.3.1?
1213 ----------------------------
1215 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
1216 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
1217 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
1218 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
1219 improvements) for good measure.
1223 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
1224 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
1226 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
1227 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
1229 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
1230 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
1231 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
1232 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
1235 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
1236 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
1237 (documentation has been updated too)
1239 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
1240 spanish translation of menus
1242 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
1243 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
1244 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1246 What's new in version 1.3.0?
1247 ----------------------------
1249 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
1250 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
1251 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
1252 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
1253 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
1255 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
1256 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
1257 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
1261 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
1262 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
1263 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
1264 functionally equivalent.
1266 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
1267 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
1268 symbols displayed properly.
1272 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
1273 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
1274 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
1279 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
1280 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
1281 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
1282 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
1283 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
1284 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
1285 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
1286 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
1287 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
1288 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
1292 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
1293 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
1294 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
1295 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
1296 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
1297 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
1298 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
1299 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
1300 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
1301 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
1302 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
1303 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
1304 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
1305 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
1306 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
1308 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
1309 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
1311 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
1312 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
1313 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
1314 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
1315 the inset and press 'backspace'.
1317 ** Reading old files
1319 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
1320 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
1321 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
1322 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
1324 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
1325 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
1326 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1327 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
1329 ** Miscellaneous changes
1331 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1332 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1333 configure your font server).
1335 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1336 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1339 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1340 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1343 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1344 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1345 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1349 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1350 ----------------------------
1352 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1353 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1354 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1355 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1359 - updated italian User Guide
1361 - updated french localization
1364 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1365 ----------------------------
1367 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1368 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1373 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1374 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1375 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1377 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1378 when dragging the mouse)
1380 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1381 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1382 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1385 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1386 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1387 who are not aware that it is needed
1389 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1390 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1392 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1393 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1395 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1397 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1399 - update sciword bindings
1401 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1402 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1404 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1408 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1409 ----------------------------
1411 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1412 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1413 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1414 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1419 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1420 when this gets released)
1422 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1423 the performance problems
1425 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1427 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1428 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1429 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1431 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1434 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1435 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1436 help entering of ERT insets)
1438 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1440 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1442 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1444 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1445 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1448 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1450 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1453 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1454 line and have this file created for you
1456 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1457 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1460 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1461 ----------------------------
1463 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1464 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1465 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1466 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1467 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1470 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1471 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1474 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1475 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1478 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1479 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1480 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1482 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1485 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1486 appear in the output.
1488 - New minipage inset
1490 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1491 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1495 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1497 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1498 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1499 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1502 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1506 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1507 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1508 process, among which:
1510 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1512 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1513 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1514 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1516 - support for many amsmath features
1517 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1518 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1519 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1520 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1523 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1525 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1527 - Improvements to the parser
1529 - Improvements to math text mode
1531 - (Better) support for nested macros
1533 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1535 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1537 - GUI support provided for many more features
1540 Other changes include:
1542 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1545 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1546 improved in the process
1548 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1549 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1550 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1552 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1555 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1556 "shelfful", or many german words
1558 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1559 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1560 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1561 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1563 - Updated documentation
1565 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1568 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1570 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1572 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1574 - Babel can be disabled
1576 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1578 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1579 ------------------------------------
1581 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1585 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1587 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1588 appears to be more suitable.
1590 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1591 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1593 - add support for dvipdfm
1595 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1596 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1598 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1601 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1603 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1606 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1608 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1611 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1612 ------------------------------------
1614 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1618 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1621 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1622 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1624 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1627 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1628 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1630 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1631 Theoretical Computer Science
1633 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1635 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1636 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1638 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1639 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1640 with the older version
1643 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1644 ------------------------------------
1646 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1650 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1652 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1653 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1654 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1656 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1657 documentation update.
1659 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1662 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1663 ------------------------------------
1665 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1669 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1670 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1672 - better support for ukrainian language
1674 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1675 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1677 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1678 line-delete-forward.
1680 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1682 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1685 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1686 --------------------------------
1688 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1689 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1690 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1692 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1693 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1694 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1695 from the older development version:
1697 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1698 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1699 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1700 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1701 have been overhauled.
1703 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1706 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1707 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1709 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1711 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1712 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1713 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1715 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1717 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1718 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1719 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1720 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1721 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1722 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1723 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1725 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1726 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1727 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1730 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1731 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1732 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1733 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1734 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1735 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1737 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1738 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1739 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1740 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1741 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1743 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1745 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1747 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1748 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1749 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1750 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1751 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1752 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1754 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1756 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1759 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1760 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1762 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1763 mentioned here for your information
1765 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1766 (this can be changed in preferences).
1768 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1773 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1774 --------------------------------
1776 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1777 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1778 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1780 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1781 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1783 User-visible changes:
1785 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1787 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1789 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1791 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1793 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1794 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1796 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1797 command-line/window:
1798 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1800 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1801 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1803 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1805 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1807 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1809 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1810 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1811 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1812 (And you probably had the error always.)
1814 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1816 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1817 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1819 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1821 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1822 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1823 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1824 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1826 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1828 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1829 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1831 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1832 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1834 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1835 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1836 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1837 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1840 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1841 --------------------------------
1843 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1844 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1845 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1848 In the user-visible department, we find:
1850 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1851 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1852 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1853 the GUI pops up during the process...
1855 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1857 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1858 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1860 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1861 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1862 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1863 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1865 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1868 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1869 --------------------------------
1871 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1872 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1874 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1875 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1876 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1878 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1879 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1882 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1885 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1887 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1888 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1889 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1890 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1891 for the sake of correctness.
1893 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1894 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1896 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1897 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1899 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1901 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1903 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1905 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1906 --------------------------------
1908 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1910 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1911 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1912 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1914 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1916 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1918 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1920 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1921 has also been fixed.
1923 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1924 --------------------------------
1926 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1927 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1928 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1929 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1930 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1931 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1933 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1935 - New export to HTML feature
1937 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1939 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1940 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1941 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1943 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1944 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1945 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1947 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1948 --------------------------------------------------
1950 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1951 new features has been included:
1957 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1959 - Several language files updated.
1961 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1963 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1964 --------------------------------------------------
1966 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1968 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1971 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1973 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1975 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1976 --------------------------------------------------
1978 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1979 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1981 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1983 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1984 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1986 - Better multipart document support.
1988 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1991 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1994 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1995 --------------------------------------------------
1997 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1998 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
2000 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
2002 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
2004 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
2006 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
2008 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
2012 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
2013 ----------------------------------------------------
2015 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
2016 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
2018 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
2019 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
2020 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
2021 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
2022 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
2024 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
2025 footnotes, and generally better output.
2027 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
2028 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
2029 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
2030 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
2031 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
2033 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
2034 and error message translations) for several languages.
2036 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
2037 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
2038 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
2040 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
2042 - Improved table support.
2044 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
2046 - easier handling of index entries.
2048 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
2049 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
2050 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
2051 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
2054 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
2055 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as