4 What's new in version 2.0.6?
5 ----------------------------
7 This is a bug-fixing release, for the most part. Though, as it has been
8 almost six months since the last release, a lot of important bugs have
9 been fixed. Please see the ANNOUNCE file for details.
12 What's new in version 2.0.5?
13 ----------------------------
15 The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
16 e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
17 really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
18 PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
21 There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
22 - "language <LANG>" now toggles between languages
23 (status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
24 - "language <LANG> set" sets to language <LANG>
25 (meaning of "language <LANG>" as of LyX 2.0.2)
26 - "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
27 - Menu functions are unchanged.
30 What's new in version 2.0.4?
31 ----------------------------
33 We have migrated our development from subversion to the git revision
34 control sytem. If you follow or maintain packaging of up-to-date versions
35 of LyX 2.0.x, you must switch to the new repository address:
37 Branch 2.0.x is the stable branch. See
38 http://www.lyx.org/HowToUseGIT
41 Most of the improvements in 2.0.4 are bug fixes, some of them important. In
42 particular, we have fixed several crashes. The main outstanding problem is
43 the inability to cancel the background export process. Some improvement has
44 been made here, by updating the timeout mechanism, but more needs to be done,
45 and hopefully will be done for 2.0.5.
47 There have been several updates to LyX's XHTML export routines. Work on this
48 will continue for 2.0.5.
51 What's new in version 2.0.3?
52 ----------------------------
54 There have been several more updates to LyX's Sweave support. Work on this
55 is expected to continue through the 2.0.x series.
57 LyX 2.0.3 still requires a python 2 interpreter, but steps have been taken
58 to avoid problems on systems where python 3 is the default python interpreter.
59 A python 2 interpreter is now automatically detected and used. Additionally,
60 byte-compiled python files changed their installation target. Distribution
61 maintainers are encouraged to verify their patch sets.
63 There have again been several updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Not
64 as many as with 2.0.2, but quite a few.
67 What's new in version 2.0.2?
68 ----------------------------
70 There have been several improvements to LyX's ability to export documents
71 in the background, so the program does not freeze during compilation. We
72 hope to continue these improvements throughout the 2.0.x series.
74 There have been major updates to the tex2lyx conversion script. Please see
75 below for the details.
77 The ctex document classes, used for Chinese documents, are now supported
80 Support for the Springer document classes has been updated for compatibility
81 with the lasest versions. This has the side-effect that files, created with
82 LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable
83 with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2. The same applies for files created
84 with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
87 What's new in version 2.0.1?
88 ----------------------------
90 We have fixed an unusually large number of bugs for this release and made
91 a number of improvements. All of these are detailed in the ANNOUNCE file.
92 We would like to highlight the improved handling of external files referenced
93 from ERT. This may cause issues for those who made use of the undocumented
94 \input@path hack. See the ANNOUNCE file again for how to do things the new
95 way. New methods for calling external scripts should also solve several issues
99 What's new in version 2.0.0?
100 ----------------------------
102 The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
103 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
105 * Advanced Search Facility
106 * Spell-checking on the Fly
107 * Compare Documents Feature
109 * Multilingual Thesaurus
111 * Multiple Indices Support
112 * Progress View and Debugging Pane
113 * Enhanced Instant Preview
114 * Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
115 * Enhanced Version Control Features
116 * Typesetting in background
119 What's new in version 1.6.10?
120 ------------------------------
121 The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
122 import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
123 of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
124 to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
125 writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
129 What's new in version 1.6.9?
130 -----------------------------
132 We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
133 and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
134 the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
135 new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
138 What's new in version 1.6.8?
139 -----------------------------
141 LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
142 even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
143 reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
144 interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
147 What's new in version 1.6.7?
148 -----------------------------
150 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
151 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
152 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
153 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
157 What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
158 ------------------------------
160 The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
161 by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
162 a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
163 reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
166 What's new in version 1.6.6?
167 -----------------------------
169 The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
170 of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
171 program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
172 introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
173 backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
174 spelling in parallel).
177 What's new in version 1.6.5?
178 -----------------------------
180 The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
181 reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
182 some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
183 server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
184 applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
187 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
188 -------------------------------
190 The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
191 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
194 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
195 -------------------------------
197 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
198 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
199 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
202 What's new in version 1.6.4?
203 -------------------------------
205 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
206 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
209 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
210 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
211 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
212 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
213 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
214 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
215 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
216 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
219 What's new in version 1.6.3?
220 -------------------------------
222 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
223 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
225 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
226 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
227 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
228 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
230 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
231 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
232 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
233 compiled against Qt 4.5.
236 What's new in version 1.6.2?
237 -------------------------------
239 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
240 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
241 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
242 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
243 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
244 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
245 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
248 What's new in version 1.6.1?
249 -------------------------------
251 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
252 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
253 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
257 What's new in version 1.6.0?
258 -------------------------------
260 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
261 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
263 * Multiple Work Areas
265 * User-formattable Collapsable Insets
267 * Layout combobox changes
268 * Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
269 * Support for hyperlinks and URLs
271 * New implementation of math macros
276 * Shortcut Configuration dialog
277 * Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
278 * "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
283 * Graphics parameters groups
284 * LyX functions manual
285 * Multi-LFUN Keybindings
288 What's new in version 1.5.7?
289 ----------------------------
291 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
292 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
293 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
294 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
295 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
296 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
299 What's new in version 1.5.6?
300 ----------------------------
302 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
303 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
304 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
305 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
308 What's new in version 1.5.5?
309 ----------------------------
311 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
312 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
313 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
314 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
315 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
318 What's new in version 1.5.4?
319 ----------------------------
321 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
322 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
323 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
324 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
327 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
328 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
329 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
330 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
331 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
334 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
335 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
336 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
337 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
338 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
339 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
340 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
341 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
344 What's new in version 1.5.3?
345 ----------------------------
347 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
348 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
349 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
350 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
351 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
352 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
353 version also provides some new features.
356 What's new in version 1.5.2?
357 ----------------------------
359 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
360 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
361 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
362 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
365 What's new in version 1.5.1?
366 ----------------------------
368 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
369 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
370 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
371 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
372 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
374 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
377 What's new in version 1.5.0?
378 ----------------------------
380 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
381 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
382 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
386 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
387 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
388 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
389 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
390 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
391 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
392 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
393 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
394 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
395 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
398 * Integrated CJK support
400 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
401 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
402 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
404 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
405 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
406 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
407 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
411 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
412 have full user interface support.
414 * Multiple views of the same buffer
416 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
417 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
418 parts of it synchronously.
420 * Outliner and embedded TOC
422 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
423 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
424 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
425 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
429 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
430 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
431 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
432 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
433 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
434 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
438 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
439 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
442 * New Font Selection Interface
444 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
445 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
446 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
450 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
451 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
452 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
456 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
457 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
458 glossaries and fancy notations.
462 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
464 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
466 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
467 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
468 to the math toolbars.
469 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
470 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
474 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
475 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
476 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
477 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
478 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
479 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
480 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
481 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
484 * Change tracking enhancements
486 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
487 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
489 * Converter file cache
491 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
492 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
493 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
494 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
495 is enabled by default.
497 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
500 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
502 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
504 * Unified Windows installer
506 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
507 both installers are welcome.
511 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
512 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
513 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
515 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
516 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
518 * LaTeX-package support
520 LyX provides the following new document classes:
521 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
522 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
523 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
524 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
525 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
527 * Minor user interface improvements
529 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
531 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
532 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
533 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
535 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
537 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
538 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
539 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
540 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
541 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
542 even after the selection has been cleared.
544 * Limited support for local class and layout files
546 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
547 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
548 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
549 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
550 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
551 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
552 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
556 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
557 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
558 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
559 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
560 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
561 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
562 series has been to bring this speed back.
566 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
567 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
570 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
571 ------------------------------
573 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
574 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
577 What's new in version 1.4.5?
578 ----------------------------
580 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
581 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
582 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
583 python 2.3.4 or later).
586 What's new in version 1.4.4?
587 ----------------------------
589 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
591 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
592 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
594 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
595 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
597 *) Improved documentation.
599 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
602 What's new in version 1.4.3?
603 ----------------------------
605 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
606 support. Notable new features include:
608 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
609 installation anymore.
611 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
612 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
613 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
614 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
616 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
620 What's new in version 1.4.2?
621 ----------------------------
623 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
625 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
626 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
628 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
630 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
631 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
632 be compressed on disk or not.
634 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
635 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
636 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
639 What's new in version 1.4.1?
640 ----------------------------
642 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
644 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
645 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
647 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
650 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
652 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
654 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
655 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
658 What's new in version 1.4.0?
659 ----------------------------
661 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
662 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
663 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
665 ** Improved user interface
667 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
668 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
669 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
670 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
671 classic UI) is still available, for now.
673 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
674 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
675 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
676 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
677 available: one for tables, and one for math.
679 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
680 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
685 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
686 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
687 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
690 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
692 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
693 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
694 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
695 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
699 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
700 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
701 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
702 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
708 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
709 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
710 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
712 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
713 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
714 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
716 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
718 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
719 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
724 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
725 the Insert>Note menu:
727 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
728 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
730 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
731 well, greyed-out text.
733 ** Better language and numbering on screen
735 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
737 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
738 the language of the document, which may be different from the
739 language of the menus;
740 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
741 document class specifications.
745 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
746 count of the document or of the current selection.
750 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
751 of errors popping up at compilation time.
753 ** Improved bibliography support
755 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
756 "before citation" field is supported;
757 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
758 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
760 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
761 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
762 index processor is invoked).
764 ** Improved microtypography support
766 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
768 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
769 between "e." and "g.");
770 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
771 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
772 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
773 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
774 much space between figure/table and caption.
778 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
780 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
783 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
784 edit the included figure
786 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
787 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
791 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
792 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
795 What's new in version 1.3.7?
796 ----------------------------
798 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
799 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
802 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
803 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
805 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
806 installer and in the handling of file names.
808 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
811 What's new in version 1.3.6?
812 ----------------------------
814 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
816 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
817 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
818 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
819 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
820 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
821 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
822 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
824 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
825 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
826 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
828 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
829 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
830 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
831 considered as part of words
835 What's new in version 1.3.5?
836 ----------------------------
838 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
839 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
840 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
841 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
842 case where the files are in different directories.
843 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
845 What's new in version 1.3.4?
846 ----------------------------
848 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
850 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
851 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
852 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
853 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
855 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
856 * The interface and documentation localization have
859 What's new in version 1.3.3?
860 ----------------------------
862 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
864 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
865 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
866 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
867 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
868 the user interface and documentation.
870 What's new in version 1.3.2?
871 ----------------------------
873 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
875 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
877 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
878 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
881 What's new in version 1.3.1?
882 ----------------------------
884 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
885 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
886 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
887 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
888 improvements) for good measure.
892 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
893 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
895 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
896 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
898 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
899 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
900 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
901 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
904 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
905 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
906 (documentation has been updated too)
908 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
909 spanish translation of menus
911 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
912 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
913 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
915 What's new in version 1.3.0?
916 ----------------------------
918 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
919 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
920 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
921 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
922 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
924 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
925 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
926 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
930 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
931 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
932 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
933 functionally equivalent.
935 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
936 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
937 symbols displayed properly.
941 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
942 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
943 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
948 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
949 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
950 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
951 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
952 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
953 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
954 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
955 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
956 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
957 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
961 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
962 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
963 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
964 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
965 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
966 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
967 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
968 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
969 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
970 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
971 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
972 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
973 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
974 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
975 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
977 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
978 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
980 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
981 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
982 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
983 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
984 the inset and press 'backspace'.
988 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
989 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
990 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
991 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
993 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
994 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
995 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
996 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
998 ** Miscellaneous changes
1000 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
1001 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
1002 configure your font server).
1004 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
1005 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
1008 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
1009 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
1012 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
1013 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
1014 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
1018 What's new in version 1.2.3?
1019 ----------------------------
1021 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
1022 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
1023 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
1024 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
1028 - updated italian User Guide
1030 - updated french localization
1033 What's new in version 1.2.2?
1034 ----------------------------
1036 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1037 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1042 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
1043 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
1044 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
1046 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
1047 when dragging the mouse)
1049 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
1050 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
1051 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
1054 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
1055 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
1056 who are not aware that it is needed
1058 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
1059 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
1061 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
1062 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
1064 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
1066 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
1068 - update sciword bindings
1070 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
1071 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
1073 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
1077 What's new in version 1.2.1?
1078 ----------------------------
1080 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1081 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
1082 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1083 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
1088 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
1089 when this gets released)
1091 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
1092 the performance problems
1094 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
1096 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
1097 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
1098 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
1100 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
1103 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
1104 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
1105 help entering of ERT insets)
1107 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
1109 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
1111 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
1113 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
1114 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
1117 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
1119 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
1122 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
1123 line and have this file created for you
1125 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
1126 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
1129 What's new in version 1.2.0?
1130 ----------------------------
1132 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
1133 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
1134 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
1135 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
1136 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
1139 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
1140 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
1143 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
1144 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
1147 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
1148 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
1149 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
1151 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
1154 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
1155 appear in the output.
1157 - New minipage inset
1159 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
1160 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
1164 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
1166 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
1167 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
1168 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
1171 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
1175 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
1176 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
1177 process, among which:
1179 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
1181 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
1182 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
1183 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
1185 - support for many amsmath features
1186 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
1187 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
1188 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
1189 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
1192 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
1194 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
1196 - Improvements to the parser
1198 - Improvements to math text mode
1200 - (Better) support for nested macros
1202 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
1204 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
1206 - GUI support provided for many more features
1209 Other changes include:
1211 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1214 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1215 improved in the process
1217 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1218 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1219 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1221 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1224 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1225 "shelfful", or many german words
1227 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1228 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1229 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1230 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1232 - Updated documentation
1234 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1237 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1239 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1241 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1243 - Babel can be disabled
1245 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1247 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1248 ------------------------------------
1250 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1254 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1256 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1257 appears to be more suitable.
1259 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1260 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1262 - add support for dvipdfm
1264 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1265 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1267 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1270 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1272 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1275 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1277 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1280 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1281 ------------------------------------
1283 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1287 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1290 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1291 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1293 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1296 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1297 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1299 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1300 Theoretical Computer Science
1302 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1304 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1305 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1307 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1308 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1309 with the older version
1312 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1313 ------------------------------------
1315 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1319 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1321 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1322 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1323 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1325 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1326 documentation update.
1328 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1331 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1332 ------------------------------------
1334 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1338 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1339 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1341 - better support for ukrainian language
1343 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1344 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1346 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1347 line-delete-forward.
1349 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1351 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1354 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1355 --------------------------------
1357 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1358 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1359 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1361 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1362 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1363 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1364 from the older development version:
1366 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1367 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1368 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1369 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1370 have been overhauled.
1372 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1375 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1376 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1378 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1380 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1381 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1382 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1384 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1386 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1387 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1388 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1389 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1390 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1391 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1392 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1394 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1395 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1396 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1399 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1400 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1401 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1402 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1403 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1404 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1406 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1407 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1408 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1409 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1410 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1412 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1414 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1416 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1417 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1418 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1419 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1420 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1421 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1423 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1425 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1428 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1429 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1431 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1432 mentioned here for your information
1434 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1435 (this can be changed in preferences).
1437 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1442 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1443 --------------------------------
1445 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1446 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1447 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1449 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1450 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1452 User-visible changes:
1454 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1456 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1458 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1460 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1462 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1463 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1465 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1466 command-line/window:
1467 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1469 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1470 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1472 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1474 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1476 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1478 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1479 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1480 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1481 (And you probably had the error always.)
1483 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1485 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1486 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1488 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1490 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1491 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1492 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1493 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1495 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1497 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1498 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1500 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1501 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1503 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1504 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1505 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1506 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1509 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1510 --------------------------------
1512 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1513 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1514 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1517 In the user-visible department, we find:
1519 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1520 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1521 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1522 the GUI pops up during the process...
1524 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1526 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1527 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1529 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1530 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1531 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1532 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1534 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1537 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1538 --------------------------------
1540 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1541 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1543 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1544 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1545 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1547 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1548 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1551 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1554 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1556 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1557 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1558 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1559 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1560 for the sake of correctness.
1562 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1563 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1565 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1566 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1568 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1570 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1572 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1574 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1575 --------------------------------
1577 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1579 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1580 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1581 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1583 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1585 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1587 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1589 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1590 has also been fixed.
1592 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1593 --------------------------------
1595 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1596 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1597 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1598 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1599 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1600 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1602 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1604 - New export to HTML feature
1606 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1608 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1609 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1610 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1612 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1613 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1614 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1616 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1617 --------------------------------------------------
1619 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1620 new features has been included:
1626 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1628 - Several language files updated.
1630 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1632 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1633 --------------------------------------------------
1635 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1637 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1640 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1642 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1644 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1645 --------------------------------------------------
1647 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1648 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1650 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1652 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1653 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1655 - Better multipart document support.
1657 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1660 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1663 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1664 --------------------------------------------------
1666 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1667 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1669 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1671 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1673 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1675 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1677 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1681 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1682 ----------------------------------------------------
1684 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1685 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1687 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1688 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1689 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1690 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1691 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1693 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1694 footnotes, and generally better output.
1696 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1697 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1698 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1699 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1700 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1702 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1703 and error message translations) for several languages.
1705 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1706 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1707 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1709 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1711 - Improved table support.
1713 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1715 - easier handling of index entries.
1717 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1718 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1719 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1720 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1723 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1724 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as