1 What new in version 1.2.0?
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4 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
5 begin to really pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
6 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
7 versionning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
8 be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5
11 Switch to the so-called 'new' insets:
13 - floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets
15 - most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved
16 (memory consumption, spellchecking, search and replace...)
17 - TeX mode has been superceded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is
20 - new graphics inset superceding the older figure inset [will that be
25 - notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs
27 - new hyphenation break special character to
29 The math editor has been mostly rewritten, meaning more stability and
30 the following new features:
32 [Andre, can you help here?]
34 Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework:
38 - the kde frontend has been dropped in favour of a new qt2 frontend.
39 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
42 Other changes include:
44 - support for natbib for bibliography citations
46 - updated documentation
50 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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53 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
54 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
55 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
57 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
58 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
59 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
60 from the older development version:
62 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
63 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
64 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
65 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
68 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
71 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
72 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
74 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
76 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
77 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
78 will give you an idea of what is happening.
80 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
82 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
83 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
84 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
85 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
86 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
87 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
88 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
90 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
91 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
92 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
95 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
96 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
97 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
98 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
99 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
100 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
102 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
103 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
104 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
105 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
106 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
108 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
110 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
112 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
113 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
114 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
115 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
116 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
117 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
119 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
121 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
124 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
125 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
127 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
128 mentioned here for your information
130 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
131 (this can be changed in preferences).
133 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
138 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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141 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
142 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
143 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
145 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
146 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
148 User-visible changes:
150 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
152 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
154 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
156 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
158 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
159 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
161 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
163 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
165 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
166 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
168 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
170 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
172 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
174 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
175 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
176 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
177 (And you probably had the error always.)
179 - Better definition for LyXList style.
181 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
182 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
184 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
186 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
187 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
188 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
189 support is of course not supported in older versions.
191 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
193 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
194 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
196 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
197 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
199 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
200 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
201 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
202 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
205 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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208 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
209 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
210 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
213 In the user-visible department, we find:
215 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
216 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
217 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
218 the GUI pops up during the process...
220 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
222 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
223 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
225 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
226 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
227 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
228 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
230 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
233 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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236 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
237 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
239 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
240 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
241 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
243 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
244 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
247 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
250 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
252 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
253 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
254 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
255 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
256 for the sake of correctness.
258 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
259 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
261 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
262 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
264 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
266 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
268 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
270 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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273 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
275 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
276 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
277 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
279 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
281 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
283 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
285 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
288 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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291 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
292 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
293 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
294 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
295 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
296 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
298 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
300 - New export to HTML feature
302 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
304 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
305 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
306 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
308 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
309 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
310 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
312 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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315 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
316 new features has been included:
322 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
324 - Several language files updated.
326 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
328 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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331 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
333 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
336 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
338 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
340 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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343 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
344 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
346 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
348 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
349 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
351 - Better multipart document support.
353 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
356 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
359 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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362 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
363 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
365 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
367 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
369 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
371 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
373 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
377 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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380 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
381 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
383 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
384 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
385 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
386 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
387 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
389 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
390 footnotes, and generally better output.
392 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
393 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
394 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
395 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
396 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
398 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
399 and error message translations) for several languages.
401 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
402 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
403 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
405 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
407 - Improved table support.
409 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
411 - easier handling of index entries.
413 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
414 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
415 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
416 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
419 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
420 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as