Slight code-consistency improvements.

[lyx.git] / lib / RELEASE-NOTES

diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0b4efec9d260ff9a6ca7a82463e715c0dbc1bc0e..40abf2af03bebf3ec769f2f555a0e1412495182f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -14,21 +14,32 @@
   while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
   stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
 
   while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
   stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
 

+* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts.
+

 
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
 
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 

-* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
-  existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults and templates.
-  That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
-  you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
-  as Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be changed manually
-  if desired.
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
+  not affect existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch
+  personal defaults and templates. That is to say, if you still see
+  traditional encoding preset for new documents, you can change that
+  by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save as
+  Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be
+  changed manually if desired.

 
 * LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
   "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
 
 * Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
   encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
 
 * LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
   "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
 
 * Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
   encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".

+  
+* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e. 
+  only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous 
+  implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples), 
+  some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a 
+  DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on 
+  sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
+  Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.

 
 !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
 
 
 !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
 


@@ -97,6 +108,10 @@
 
 * date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
 
 
 * date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
 

+!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle.
+
+* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change
+  direction with language.

 
 
 !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:
 
 
 !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:


@@ -131,8 +146,9 @@
 * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
   Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
 
 * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
   Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
 

-* The pplatex/dvipost program is no longer used.
+* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.

 
 

+* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.

 
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0
 
 
 !!Known issues in version 2.4.0


@@ -145,13 +161,17 @@
 * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
   for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
 
 * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
   for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
 

-!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
-
-* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
-  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
-

 * Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed
   to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain
   codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161). 
   Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
 * Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed
   to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain
   codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161). 
   Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are

-  delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX.
+  delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
+  in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.
+
+  Also note, that while it is still possible to compile LyX against Qt 4
+  these math symbols will not be displayed correctly anymore on Qt 4.
+
+!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
+
+* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
+  https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes