+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
+really begin to 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).
+
+This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
+which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
+are now possible:
+
+- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
+ positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
+ float-by-float
+
+- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
+ (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
+ Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
+
+- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
+ can be shown inline
+
+- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
+ appear in the output.
+
+- New minipage inset
+
+Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
+versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
+1.2.0.
+
+
+Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
+
+- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
+ image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
+ rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
+ ghostscript method.
+
+- Support for natbib for bibliography citations
+
+
+
+The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
+cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
+process, among which:
+
+- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
+
+- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
+ also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
+ relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
+
+- support for many amsmath features
+ Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
+ over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
+ Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
+ split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
+ Vmatrix
+
+- Preliminary support for xymatrix
+
+- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
+
+- Improvements to the parser
+
+- Improvements to math text mode
+
+- (Better) support for nested macros
+
+- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
+
+- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
+
+- GUI support provided for many more features
+
+
+Other changes include:
+
+- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
+ distribution.
+
+- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
+ improved in the process
+
+- 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 and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
+
+- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
+ expressions.
+
+- New ligature break special character, useful for words like
+ "shelfful", or many german words
+
+- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
+ with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
+ improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
+ LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
+
+- Updated documentation
+
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat and svprobth.
+
+- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
+
+- It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
+
+- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
+
+- Babel can be disabled
+
+- A thesaurus facility (English only)
+
+
+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.
+
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