1 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
5 release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
6 the `under the hood' changes to the code have again been very
7 important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
8 a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
9 announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
13 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
14 either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
15 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
16 functionally equivalent.
18 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
19 latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
24 The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
25 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
26 implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
27 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
29 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
30 version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
31 General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
32 many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
33 are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
34 In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
36 In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
37 invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
38 Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
39 highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
40 feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
44 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
45 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
46 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
51 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
52 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
53 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
54 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
55 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
56 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
57 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
58 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
59 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
60 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
64 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
65 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
66 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
67 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
68 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
69 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
70 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
71 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
72 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
73 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
74 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
75 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
76 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
77 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
78 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
80 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
81 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
83 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
84 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
85 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
86 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
87 the inset and press 'backspace'.
91 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
92 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
93 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
94 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
96 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
97 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
98 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
99 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
101 ** Miscellaneous changes
103 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
104 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
105 configure your font server).
107 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
108 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
111 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
112 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
115 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
116 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
117 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
121 What's new in version 1.2.3?
122 ----------------------------
124 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
125 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
126 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
127 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
131 - updated italian User Guide
133 - updated french localization
136 What's new in version 1.2.2?
137 ----------------------------
139 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
140 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
145 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
146 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
147 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
149 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
150 when dragging the mouse)
152 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
153 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
154 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
157 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
158 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
159 who are not aware that it is needed
161 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
162 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
164 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
165 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
167 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
169 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
171 - update sciword bindings
173 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
174 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
176 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
180 What's new in version 1.2.1?
181 ----------------------------
183 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
184 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
185 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
186 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
191 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
192 when this gets released)
194 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
195 the performance problems
197 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
199 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
200 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
201 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
203 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
206 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
207 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
208 help entering of ERT insets)
210 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
212 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
214 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
216 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
217 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
220 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
222 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
225 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
226 line and have this file created for you
228 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
229 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
232 What's new in version 1.2.0?
233 ----------------------------
235 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
236 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
237 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
238 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
239 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
242 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
243 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
246 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
247 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
250 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
251 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
252 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
254 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
257 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
258 appear in the output.
262 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
263 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
267 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
269 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
270 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
271 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
274 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
278 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
279 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
280 process, among which:
282 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
284 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
285 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
286 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
288 - support for many amsmath features
289 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
290 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
291 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
292 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
295 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
297 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
299 - Improvements to the parser
301 - Improvements to math text mode
303 - (Better) support for nested macros
305 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
307 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
309 - GUI support provided for many more features
312 Other changes include:
314 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
317 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
318 improved in the process
320 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
321 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
322 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
324 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
327 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
328 "shelfful", or many german words
330 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
331 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
332 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
333 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
335 - Updated documentation
337 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
340 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
342 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
344 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
346 - Babel can be disabled
348 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
350 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
351 ------------------------------------
353 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
357 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
359 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
360 appears to be more suitable.
362 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
363 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
365 - add support for dvipdfm
367 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
368 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
370 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
373 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
375 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
378 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
380 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
383 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
384 ------------------------------------
386 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
390 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
393 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
394 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
396 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
399 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
400 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
402 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
403 Theoretical Computer Science
405 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
407 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
408 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
410 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
411 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
412 with the older version
415 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
416 ------------------------------------
418 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
422 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
424 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
425 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
426 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
428 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
429 documentation update.
431 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
434 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
435 ------------------------------------
437 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
441 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
442 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
444 - better support for ukrainian language
446 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
447 working --with-lyx-suffix.
449 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
452 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
454 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
457 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
458 --------------------------------
460 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
461 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
462 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
464 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
465 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
466 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
467 from the older development version:
469 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
470 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
471 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
472 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
473 have been overhauled.
475 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
478 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
479 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
481 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
483 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
484 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
485 will give you an idea of what is happening.
487 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
489 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
490 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
491 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
492 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
493 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
494 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
495 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
497 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
498 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
499 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
502 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
503 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
504 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
505 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
506 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
507 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
509 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
510 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
511 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
512 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
513 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
515 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
517 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
519 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
520 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
521 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
522 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
523 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
524 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
526 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
528 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
531 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
532 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
534 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
535 mentioned here for your information
537 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
538 (this can be changed in preferences).
540 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
545 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
546 --------------------------------
548 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
549 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
550 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
552 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
553 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
555 User-visible changes:
557 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
559 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
561 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
563 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
565 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
566 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
568 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
570 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
572 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
573 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
575 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
577 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
579 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
581 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
582 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
583 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
584 (And you probably had the error always.)
586 - Better definition for LyXList style.
588 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
589 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
591 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
593 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
594 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
595 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
596 support is of course not supported in older versions.
598 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
600 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
601 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
603 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
604 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
606 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
607 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
608 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
609 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
612 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
613 --------------------------------
615 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
616 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
617 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
620 In the user-visible department, we find:
622 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
623 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
624 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
625 the GUI pops up during the process...
627 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
629 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
630 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
632 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
633 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
634 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
635 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
637 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
640 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
641 --------------------------------
643 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
644 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
646 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
647 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
648 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
650 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
651 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
654 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
657 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
659 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
660 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
661 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
662 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
663 for the sake of correctness.
665 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
666 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
668 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
669 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
671 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
673 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
675 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
677 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
678 --------------------------------
680 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
682 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
683 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
684 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
686 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
688 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
690 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
692 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
695 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
696 --------------------------------
698 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
699 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
700 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
701 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
702 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
703 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
705 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
707 - New export to HTML feature
709 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
711 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
712 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
713 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
715 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
716 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
717 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
719 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
720 --------------------------------------------------
722 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
723 new features has been included:
729 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
731 - Several language files updated.
733 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
735 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
736 --------------------------------------------------
738 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
740 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
743 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
745 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
747 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
748 --------------------------------------------------
750 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
751 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
753 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
755 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
756 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
758 - Better multipart document support.
760 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
763 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
766 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
767 --------------------------------------------------
769 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
770 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
772 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
774 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
776 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
778 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
780 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
784 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
785 ----------------------------------------------------
787 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
788 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
790 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
791 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
792 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
793 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
794 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
796 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
797 footnotes, and generally better output.
799 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
800 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
801 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
802 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
803 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
805 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
806 and error message translations) for several languages.
808 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
809 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
810 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
812 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
814 - Improved table support.
816 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
818 - easier handling of index entries.
820 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
821 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
822 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
823 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
826 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
827 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as