1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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4 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
5 We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
6 this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
8 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
9 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
13 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
14 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
16 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
17 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
19 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
21 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
23 - More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
25 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
27 - Better definition for LyXList style.
29 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
30 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
31 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
32 support is of course not supported in older versions.
34 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
36 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
37 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
39 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
40 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
41 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
42 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
47 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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50 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
51 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
52 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
55 In the user-visible department, we find:
57 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
58 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
59 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
60 the GUI pops up during the process...
62 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
64 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
65 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
67 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
68 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
69 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
70 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
72 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
75 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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78 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
79 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
81 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
82 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
83 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
85 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
86 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
89 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
92 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
94 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
95 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
96 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
97 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
98 for the sake of correctness.
100 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
101 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
103 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
104 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
106 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
108 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
110 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
112 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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115 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
117 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
118 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
119 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
121 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
123 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
125 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
127 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
130 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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133 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
134 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
135 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
136 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
137 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
138 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
140 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
142 - New export to HTML feature
144 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
146 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
147 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
148 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
150 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
151 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
152 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
154 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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157 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
158 new features has been included:
164 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
166 - Several language files updated.
168 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
170 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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173 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
175 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
178 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
180 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
182 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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185 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
186 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
188 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
190 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
191 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
193 - Better multipart document support.
195 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
198 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
201 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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204 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
205 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
207 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
209 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
211 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
213 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
215 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
219 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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222 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
223 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
225 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
226 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
227 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
228 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
229 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
231 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
232 footnotes, and generally better output.
234 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
235 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
236 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
237 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
238 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
240 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
241 and error message translations) for several languages.
243 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
244 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
245 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
247 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
249 - Improved table support.
251 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
253 - easier handling of index entries.
255 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
256 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
257 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
258 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
261 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
262 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as