1 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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4 As for all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
5 of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
6 ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
9 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
10 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
11 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
12 from the older development version:
14 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
15 process they have gotten a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
16 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
17 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
20 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
21 lyxrc settings [Allan, details?]
23 - the menus can now be defined from a text file (like the toolbar) and
24 shows the keyboard bindings associated to commands.
26 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
28 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a GNome frontend for
29 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
30 can give you an idea of what is happening.
32 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
34 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It uses the new
35 text inset which will be use throughout LyX in version 1.2.0 and
36 offers many new features: [Juergen??]
38 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
39 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
40 applications. Among other good things, it will allow you to finally
41 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
42 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
43 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
45 - the code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
46 viewing or exporting purpose) has been rewritten. In particular, the
47 PDF format is now supported [Dekel, details?]
49 - DocBook improvements [José, details?]
51 And finally, there has been a lot of smaller changes, which are
52 mentionned here for your information
54 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
55 (this can be changed in lyxrc).
57 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
62 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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65 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
66 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
67 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
69 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
70 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
74 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
76 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
78 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
80 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
82 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
83 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
85 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
87 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
89 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
90 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
92 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
94 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
96 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
98 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
99 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
100 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
101 (And you probably had the error always.)
103 - Better definition for LyXList style.
105 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
106 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
108 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
110 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
111 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
112 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
113 support is of course not supported in older versions.
115 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
117 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
118 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
120 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
121 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
123 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
124 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
125 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
126 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
129 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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132 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
133 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
134 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
137 In the user-visible department, we find:
139 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
140 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
141 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
142 the GUI pops up during the process...
144 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
146 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
147 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
149 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
150 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
151 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
152 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
154 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
157 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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160 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
161 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
163 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
164 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
165 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
167 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
168 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
171 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
174 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
176 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
177 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
178 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
179 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
180 for the sake of correctness.
182 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
183 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
185 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
186 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
188 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
190 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
192 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
194 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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197 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
199 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
200 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
201 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
203 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
205 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
207 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
209 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
212 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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215 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
216 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
217 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
218 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
219 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
220 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
222 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
224 - New export to HTML feature
226 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
228 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
229 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
230 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
232 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
233 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
234 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
236 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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239 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
240 new features has been included:
246 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
248 - Several language files updated.
250 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
252 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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255 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
257 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
260 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
262 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
264 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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267 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
268 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
270 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
272 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
273 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
275 - Better multipart document support.
277 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
280 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
283 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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286 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
287 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
289 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
291 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
293 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
295 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
297 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
301 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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304 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
305 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
307 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
308 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
309 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
310 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
311 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
313 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
314 footnotes, and generally better output.
316 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
317 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
318 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
319 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
320 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
322 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
323 and error message translations) for several languages.
325 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
326 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
327 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
329 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
331 - Improved table support.
333 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
335 - easier handling of index entries.
337 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
338 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
339 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
340 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
343 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
344 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as