1 This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 2.1.0, some
2 known problems in LyX 2.1.0 and some things you have to take into account
3 when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 2.1.x series.
9 - There have been changes to some often used menu items.
11 The following menu items moved from View to Document:
12 * View (Default format)
13 * View (Other formats)
14 * Update (Default format)
15 * Update (Other formats)
17 The following menu item moved from Document to View:
18 * Outline -> Outline Pane
20 - Whenever the user closes a (tabbed) view on a document, either by
21 clicking on the tab close button, or by using the File->Close menu,
22 LyX now closes exclusively that specific view. If there are other
23 views showing the same document, they are not closed. When the user
24 closes the last view, LyX can be configured for either closing the
25 document, or keeping it in memory as a hidden document (that can be
26 shown again through the View->Hidden-> submenu).
28 A new configurable preference option has been added, allowing for
29 either (close_buffer_with_last_view).
31 - There have been some changes to the LyX command line. The following
32 new options have been added:
34 --export-to <format> <dest> (-E <format> <dest>)
36 Allows one to perform a batch export of the LyX file that is
37 opened to the specified destination file <dest> and format
38 <format>. For example, to create a PDF of a LyX document,
40 lyx --export-to pdf /path/to/dest.pdf /path/to/source.lyx
41 See the manual page for details.
43 This functionality is also available via a new menu voice
44 Export->Export As..., that pops up a dialog allowing one to
45 choose the export format, as well as the destination pathname.
46 Also, it is available via the mini-buffer (or the -x switch)
47 through a proper new LFUN (see below).
49 - The Advanced Find and Replace feature now supports cancel of a
50 long search operation by hitting the ESC key.
52 - The format pdf aka "PDF (ps2pdf)" was split in two formats: pdf aka
53 "PDF (ps2pdf)" and pdf6 aka "PDF (graphics)". pdf6 is used for PDF
54 files included as graphics. Custom external templates and converters
55 might need to be adjusted. The format split was needed since otherwise
56 an odt->pdf converter which is intended for included graphics only
57 did interfere with document export via ps2pdf.
59 - The support for ArmTeX (a special typesetting engine for Armenian)
60 was removed. Writing text in Armenian is now possible in a native
64 The following pref variables were added in 2.1:
66 - \\close_buffer_with_last_view [yes|no|ask]
67 When the user closes the last view on a document, close the
68 document as well ("yes"), or hide the document ("no"), or ask
71 - \\completion_minlength
72 Defines the minimal length of a word to be added to the list of
73 words for text completion.
75 - \\default_length_unit
76 Defines the default length unit: 2 for centimers, 6 for inches.
78 - \\default_otf_view_format
79 Defines the default output format for documents with non-tex
80 fonts (OpenType fonts).
82 - \\fullscreen_statusbar
83 Controls whether the statusbar is shown in fullscreen mode.
86 Defines the prefix for the TEXINPUTS environment variable. A
87 single '.' in the paths will get replaced with the current
88 document dir and also non-absolute paths will be prefixed with
91 The default semantics of TEXINPUTS apply, such that, for example,
92 if a path is terminated with a double slash, all subdirectories
93 will also be searched by both the TeX engine and ancillary programs
94 such as dvi previewers or dvips.
96 (see also commit 1717ef20)
99 See Caveats section below.
101 - \\use_system_theme_icons
102 If set to true, LyX tries to use the theme icons as defined by
106 The following pref variables were changed in 2.1:
108 - \\mac_like_word_movement -> \\mac_like_cursor_movement
109 When this option is set, the cursor is now moved to the end of
110 the current paragraph on paragraph-down. The pref variable was
111 renamed to better reflect this new behaviour.
114 The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.1:
116 - \\default_language and \\default_papersize
117 To set the default language and paper size for new documents, use
118 the "Save As Document Defaults" button in Document > Settings.
121 The following new LyX functions have been introduced:
124 Inserts an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) inset.
126 - ipamacro-insert <char>
127 Inserts special IPA macros into the document. <char> can be
128 one of 'tone-falling', 'tone-rising', 'tone-high-rising',
129 'tone-low-rising', 'tone-high-rising-falling', 'deco bottomtiebar',
132 - spelling-continuously
133 Toggles continuous spell-checking.
137 Renames or copies a file under version control.
139 - buffer-forall <command>
140 Applies <command> to all non-hidden buffers.
143 Splits the current environment with a Separator.
145 - branch-master-activate <branch>
146 - branch-master-deactivate <branch>
147 Activates or deactivates a branch in a master document from within
148 a child (as opposed to the existing branch-[de]activate, which
149 toggle the branch in the document itself).
151 - buffer-export-as <format> <filename>
152 Equivalent to the new -export-to command-line switch (see above).
154 - clipboard-paste-simple
155 Paste the clipboard contents as simple unformatted text.
156 This is also available through a new menu voice within the
157 [Edit]->[Paste Special...] sub-menu.
160 Close the current document view only, if there are no more views
161 on the document, either close or hide it (see the new preference
162 option \\close_buffer_with_last_view)
165 The following LyX functions have been changed:
167 - close-tab-group was renamed to tab-group-close.
169 - split-view was renamed to view-split.
171 - break-paragraph was renamed to paragraph-break.
173 - copy-label-as-reference was renamed to label-copy-as-reference.
176 The following LyX key bindings have been changed:
178 - The binding "C-w" was moved from "buffer-close" to "view-close"
181 - sciword.bind was changed significantly (see #8364). The most important
182 change is that "math-delim" commands now work under Windows.
184 The following LyX documents have been moved:
186 - 'AEA', 'JASA', 'springer', 'ACM-siggraph', and 'thesis' have been moved
187 from templates to examples (see #8643).
190 The following metadata files have been added to the tarball:
192 - Linux desktop file specification and scalable icon has been
193 included in the tarball.
195 - AppData file (appdata.xml). It will not be installed by default and
196 distribution maintainers need to handle this file themselves.
199 Changes with respect to external programs and libraries:
200 --------------------------------------------------------
202 - LyX now links against libmagic (http://www.darwinsys.com/file/) if it is
203 available at compile time. This improves the file format detection of
204 included graphics and other files. The old builtin format detection code
205 is used if libmagic is not available.
207 - LyX no longer uses gettext for handling the translation files. This
208 especially is an advantage on Windows, where translating strings is faster.
210 - LyX is not yet supposed to work with Qt5. It is advised to compile and
211 run LyX against Qt 4.8.x.
214 Known issues in version 2.1.0
215 -----------------------------
217 - LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on systems
218 where Python 3 is the default binary. See bug #7030 to know how to fix
219 this properly, since simple sheebang conversion in *.py files will not
223 Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.1.x
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226 - In order to improve reported scrolling slowness, we changed the way
227 screen painting is done. This, however, can slow down the performance
228 on remote X connections and we provide the \\use_qimage preference
229 variable, which brings back the old way of painting (when set to false).