1 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2 ----------------------------
4 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
5 release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
6 the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
7 important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
8 a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
9 announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
13 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
14 either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
15 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
16 functionally equivalent.
18 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
19 latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
24 The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
25 frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
26 implemented, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
27 most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
29 Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
30 version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
31 General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
32 many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
33 are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. As
34 a matter of fact, LyX 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of
35 xforms older than 0.89.5.
37 In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
38 invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
39 Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
40 highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
41 feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
45 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
46 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
47 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
52 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
53 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
54 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
55 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
56 Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
57 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
58 figures. This feature can be immensely useful for making sure the
59 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
60 preview is only displayed (when enabled) when you're not editing the
61 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
65 There have been few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
66 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
67 a formula by showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
68 formula itself and by revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
69 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
70 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New is also the internal
71 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets" as anything
72 else from a square root to an array. This does not only simplify the
73 code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
74 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
75 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
76 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
77 implementing support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox and general
78 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
79 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
81 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
82 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
84 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
85 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
86 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
87 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
88 the inset and press 'backspace'.
92 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which allows to read any old file
93 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. 0.10 series is in the works
94 for 0.10 (1.4 time line) and still older files are in the forge.
95 Basically if lyx wrote it lyx will read it. :-)
97 There is also a strong demand for being able to read files produced by
98 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has an infrastructure in place
99 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
100 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
102 ** Miscellaneous changes
104 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
105 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
106 configure your font server).
108 - The Insert>Short Title allows to add an optional text for section
109 headings and captions that is designed to be used in table of
112 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the capability
113 of wrapping a text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
116 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
117 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
118 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
121 What's new in version 1.2.2?
122 ----------------------------
124 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
125 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
130 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
131 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
132 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
134 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
135 when dragging the mouse)
137 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
138 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
139 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
142 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
143 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
144 who are not aware that it is needed
146 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
147 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
149 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
150 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
152 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
154 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
156 - update sciword bindings
158 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
159 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
161 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
165 What's new in version 1.2.1?
166 ----------------------------
168 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
169 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
170 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
171 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
176 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
177 when this gets released)
179 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
180 the performance problems
182 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
184 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
185 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
186 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
188 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
191 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
192 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
193 help entering of ERT insets)
195 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
197 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
199 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
201 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
202 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
205 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
207 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
210 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
211 line and have this file created for you
213 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
214 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
217 What's new in version 1.2.0?
218 ----------------------------
220 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
221 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
222 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
223 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
224 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
227 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
228 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
231 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
232 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
235 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
236 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
237 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
239 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
242 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
243 appear in the output.
247 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
248 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
252 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
254 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
255 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
256 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
259 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
263 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
264 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
265 process, among which:
267 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
269 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
270 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
271 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
273 - support for many amsmath features
274 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
275 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
276 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
277 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
280 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
282 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
284 - Improvements to the parser
286 - Improvements to math text mode
288 - (Better) support for nested macros
290 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
292 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
294 - GUI support provided for many more features
297 Other changes include:
299 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
302 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
303 improved in the process
305 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
306 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
307 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
309 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
312 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
313 "shelfful", or many german words
315 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
316 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
317 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
318 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
320 - Updated documentation
322 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
325 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
327 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
329 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
331 - Babel can be disabled
333 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
335 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
336 ------------------------------------
338 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
342 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
344 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
345 appears to be more suitable.
347 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
348 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
350 - add support for dvipdfm
352 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
353 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
355 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
358 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
360 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
363 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
365 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
368 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
369 ------------------------------------
371 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
375 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
378 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
379 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
381 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
384 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
385 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
387 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
388 Theoretical Computer Science
390 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
392 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
393 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
395 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
396 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
397 with the older version
400 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
401 ------------------------------------
403 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
407 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
409 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
410 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
411 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
413 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
414 documentation update.
416 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
419 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
420 ------------------------------------
422 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
426 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
427 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
429 - better support for ukrainian language
431 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
432 working --with-lyx-suffix.
434 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
437 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
439 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
442 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
443 --------------------------------
445 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
446 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
447 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
449 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
450 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
451 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
452 from the older development version:
454 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
455 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
456 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
457 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
458 have been overhauled.
460 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
463 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
464 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
466 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
468 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
469 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
470 will give you an idea of what is happening.
472 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
474 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
475 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
476 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
477 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
478 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
479 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
480 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
482 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
483 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
484 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
487 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
488 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
489 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
490 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
491 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
492 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
494 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
495 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
496 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
497 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
498 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
500 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
502 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
504 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
505 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
506 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
507 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
508 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
509 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
511 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
513 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
516 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
517 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
519 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
520 mentioned here for your information
522 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
523 (this can be changed in preferences).
525 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
530 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
531 --------------------------------
533 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
534 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
535 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
537 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
538 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
540 User-visible changes:
542 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
544 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
546 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
548 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
550 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
551 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
553 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
555 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
557 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
558 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
560 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
562 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
564 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
566 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
567 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
568 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
569 (And you probably had the error always.)
571 - Better definition for LyXList style.
573 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
574 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
576 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
578 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
579 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
580 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
581 support is of course not supported in older versions.
583 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
585 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
586 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
588 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
589 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
591 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
592 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
593 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
594 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
597 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
598 --------------------------------
600 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
601 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
602 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
605 In the user-visible department, we find:
607 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
608 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
609 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
610 the GUI pops up during the process...
612 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
614 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
615 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
617 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
618 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
619 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
620 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
622 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
625 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
626 --------------------------------
628 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
629 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
631 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
632 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
633 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
635 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
636 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
639 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
642 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
644 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
645 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
646 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
647 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
648 for the sake of correctness.
650 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
651 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
653 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
654 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
656 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
658 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
660 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
662 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
663 --------------------------------
665 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
667 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
668 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
669 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
671 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
673 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
675 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
677 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
680 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
681 --------------------------------
683 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
684 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
685 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
686 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
687 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
688 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
690 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
692 - New export to HTML feature
694 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
696 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
697 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
698 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
700 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
701 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
702 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
704 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
705 --------------------------------------------------
707 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
708 new features has been included:
714 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
716 - Several language files updated.
718 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
720 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
721 --------------------------------------------------
723 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
725 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
728 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
730 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
732 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
733 --------------------------------------------------
735 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
736 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
738 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
740 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
741 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
743 - Better multipart document support.
745 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
748 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
751 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
752 --------------------------------------------------
754 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
755 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
757 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
759 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
761 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
763 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
765 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
769 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
770 ----------------------------------------------------
772 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
773 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
775 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
776 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
777 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
778 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
779 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
781 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
782 footnotes, and generally better output.
784 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
785 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
786 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
787 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
788 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
790 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
791 and error message translations) for several languages.
793 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
794 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
795 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
797 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
799 - Improved table support.
801 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
803 - easier handling of index entries.
805 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
806 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
807 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
808 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
811 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
812 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as