1 What's new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
11 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
12 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
15 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
16 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
19 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
20 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
21 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
23 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
26 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
31 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
32 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
36 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
38 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
39 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
40 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
43 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
47 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
48 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
51 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
53 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
54 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
55 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
57 - support for many amsmath features
58 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
59 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
60 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
61 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
64 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
66 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
68 - Improvements to the parser
70 - Improvements to math text mode
72 - (Better) support for nested macros
74 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
76 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
78 - GUI support provided for many more features
81 Other changes include:
83 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
86 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
87 improved in the process
89 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
90 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
91 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
93 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
96 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
97 "shelfful", or many german words
99 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
100 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
101 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
102 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
104 - Updated documentation
106 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
108 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
110 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
112 - Babel can be disabled when using the default language
114 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
117 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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120 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
121 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
122 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
124 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
125 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
126 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
127 from the older development version:
129 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
130 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
131 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
132 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
133 have been overhauled.
135 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
138 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
139 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
141 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
143 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
144 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
145 will give you an idea of what is happening.
147 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
149 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
150 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
151 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
152 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
153 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
154 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
155 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
157 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
158 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
159 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
162 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
163 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
164 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
165 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
166 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
167 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
169 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
170 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
171 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
172 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
173 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
175 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
177 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
179 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
180 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
181 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
182 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
183 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
184 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
186 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
188 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
191 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
192 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
194 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
195 mentioned here for your information
197 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
198 (this can be changed in preferences).
200 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
205 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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208 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
209 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
210 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
212 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
213 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
215 User-visible changes:
217 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
219 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
221 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
223 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
225 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
226 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
228 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
230 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
232 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
233 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
235 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
237 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
239 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
241 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
242 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
243 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
244 (And you probably had the error always.)
246 - Better definition for LyXList style.
248 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
249 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
251 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
253 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
254 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
255 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
256 support is of course not supported in older versions.
258 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
260 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
261 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
263 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
264 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
266 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
267 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
268 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
269 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
272 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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275 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
276 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
277 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
280 In the user-visible department, we find:
282 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
283 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
284 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
285 the GUI pops up during the process...
287 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
289 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
290 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
292 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
293 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
294 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
295 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
297 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
300 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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303 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
304 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
306 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
307 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
308 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
310 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
311 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
314 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
317 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
319 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
320 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
321 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
322 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
323 for the sake of correctness.
325 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
326 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
328 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
329 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
331 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
333 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
335 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
337 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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340 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
342 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
343 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
344 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
346 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
348 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
350 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
352 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
355 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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358 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
359 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
360 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
361 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
362 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
363 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
365 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
367 - New export to HTML feature
369 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
371 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
372 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
373 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
375 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
376 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
377 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
379 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
380 --------------------------------------------------
382 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
383 new features has been included:
389 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
391 - Several language files updated.
393 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
395 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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398 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
400 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
403 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
405 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
407 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
408 --------------------------------------------------
410 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
411 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
413 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
415 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
416 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
418 - Better multipart document support.
420 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
423 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
426 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
427 --------------------------------------------------
429 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
430 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
432 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
434 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
436 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
438 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
440 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
444 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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447 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
448 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
450 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
451 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
452 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
453 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
454 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
456 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
457 footnotes, and generally better output.
459 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
460 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
461 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
462 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
463 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
465 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
466 and error message translations) for several languages.
468 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
469 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
470 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
472 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
474 - Improved table support.
476 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
478 - easier handling of index entries.
480 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
481 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
482 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
483 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
486 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
487 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as