1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 begin to really pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5
11 Switch to the so-called 'new' insets:
13 - floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets
15 - most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved
16 (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...)
18 - TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is
21 - new graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
22 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default).
26 - notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs
28 - new ligature break special character, useful for words like
29 shelfful, or many german words
31 The math editor has been mostly rewritten (and thus may have many new
32 bugs :). Most of the changes should not be visible for the user,
35 - improvements to the parser
37 - improvements to math text mode
39 - (better) support for nested macros
41 - (better) support for \limits/\nolimits
43 - enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
45 - support for amsmath align environment
47 - support for changing font on a selection
49 Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework:
53 - The citation dialog citation dialog has a search facility, with
54 support for regular expressions.
56 - the kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
57 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
60 Other changes include:
62 - support for natbib for bibliography citations
64 - support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files
66 - updated documentation
68 - support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
70 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
72 - preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
74 - babel can be disabled when using the default language.
76 - a thesaurus facility (English only)
79 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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82 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
83 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
84 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
86 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
87 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
88 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
89 from the older development version:
91 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
92 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
93 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
94 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
97 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
100 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
101 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
103 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
105 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
106 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
107 will give you an idea of what is happening.
109 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
111 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
112 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
113 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
114 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
115 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
116 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
117 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
119 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
120 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
121 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
124 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
125 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
126 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
127 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
128 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
129 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
131 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
132 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
133 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
134 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
135 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
137 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
139 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
141 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
142 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
143 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
144 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
145 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
146 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
148 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
150 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
153 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
154 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
156 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
157 mentioned here for your information
159 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
160 (this can be changed in preferences).
162 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
167 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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170 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
171 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
172 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
174 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
175 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
177 User-visible changes:
179 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
181 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
183 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
185 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
187 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
188 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
190 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
192 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
194 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
195 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
197 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
199 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
201 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
203 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
204 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
205 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
206 (And you probably had the error always.)
208 - Better definition for LyXList style.
210 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
211 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
213 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
215 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
216 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
217 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
218 support is of course not supported in older versions.
220 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
222 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
223 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
225 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
226 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
228 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
229 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
230 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
231 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
234 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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237 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
238 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
239 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
242 In the user-visible department, we find:
244 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
245 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
246 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
247 the GUI pops up during the process...
249 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
251 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
252 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
254 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
255 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
256 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
257 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
259 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
262 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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265 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
266 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
268 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
269 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
270 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
272 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
273 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
276 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
279 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
281 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
282 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
283 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
284 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
285 for the sake of correctness.
287 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
288 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
290 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
291 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
293 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
295 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
297 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
299 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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302 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
304 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
305 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
306 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
308 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
310 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
312 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
314 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
317 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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320 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
321 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
322 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
323 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
324 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
325 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
327 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
329 - New export to HTML feature
331 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
333 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
334 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
335 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
337 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
338 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
339 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
341 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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344 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
345 new features has been included:
351 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
353 - Several language files updated.
355 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
357 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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360 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
362 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
365 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
367 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
369 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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372 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
373 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
375 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
377 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
378 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
380 - Better multipart document support.
382 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
385 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
388 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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391 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
392 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
394 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
396 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
398 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
400 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
402 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
406 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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409 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
410 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
412 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
413 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
414 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
415 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
416 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
418 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
419 footnotes, and generally better output.
421 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
422 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
423 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
424 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
425 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
427 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
428 and error message translations) for several languages.
430 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
431 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
432 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
434 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
436 - Improved table support.
438 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
440 - easier handling of index entries.
442 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
443 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
444 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
445 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
448 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
449 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as