What's new in version 1.2.0? ---------------------------- LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series begin to really pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5 and 1.1.6). Switch to the so-called 'new' insets: - floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets - most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...) - TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is foldable - new graphics inset superseding the older figure inset [will that be OK in 1.2.0?] - new minipage inset - notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs - new ligature break special character, useful for words like shelfful, or many german words The math editor has been mostly rewritten, meaning more stability and the following new features: [Andre, can you help here?] Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework: - [...] - the kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend. Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this version. Other changes include: - support for natbib for bibliography citations - support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files - updated documentation What's new in LyX version 1.1.6? -------------------------------- As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code from the older development version: - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups have been overhauled. - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your lyxrc settings. - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar. - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this will give you an idea of what is happening. Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it is visible without the need to enlarge the window! While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some features may not work right now, but at least it is much better than before. - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are mentioned here for your information - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default (this can be changed in preferences). - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, -height, etc. What's new in LyX version 1.1.5? -------------------------------- Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day. This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6. User-visible changes: - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only. - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents. - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references. - multilingual documents (preliminary support) - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt only and is likely to improve in future versions. - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the command-line/window: paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the ! in the margin for margin notes has been removed). - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense. - labels are now editable (not in equations, though). - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!). - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue. (And you probably had the error always.) - Better definition for LyXList style. - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy) - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support) - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL support is of course not supported in older versions. - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.) - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true). What's new in LyX version 1.1.4? -------------------------------- More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and SGI STL 3.2. In the user-visible department, we find: - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and the GUI pops up during the process... - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself; - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has in fact a different meaning for autoconf. And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;) What's new in LyX version 1.1.3? -------------------------------- More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual small number of user-visible changes have appeared: - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those. - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various problems. - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc" works now. - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files. - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done for the sake of correctness. - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed. - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros, which improves the result with T1 fonts. - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key. - The textclass g-brief has been updated. And of course many bugs have been fixed. What's new in LyX version 1.1.2? -------------------------------- LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added: - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs. Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc. Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed: - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug. Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that has also been fixed. What's new in LyX version 1.1.1? -------------------------------- LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While it does not have many new features, there have been many internal changes, many of which have been backported from our old development branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in. User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1: - New export to HTML feature - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions. - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font. - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature. What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3? -------------------------------------------------- LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some new features has been included: - DocBook support. - RevTeX4. - Better printing with custom pagesizes. - Several language files updated. - And several bugfixes to math and table. What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2? -------------------------------------------------- LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2. - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important bug in 1.0.2). - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface. - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial. What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1? -------------------------------------------------- LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features: - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows. - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german translation of UserGuide.lyx. - Better multipart document support. - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of entries. - New broadway textclass (for plays). What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0? -------------------------------------------------- LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features: - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program - New LaTeX document classe: APA What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0? ---------------------------------------------------- LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to version 0.12.0, it adds the following features: - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX. - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses, footnotes, and generally better output. - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts. - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu and error message translations) for several languages. - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv'). - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded. - Improved table support. - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents. - easier handling of index entries. - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration. Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as template.