-Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
+Public release of LyX version 2.3.6
===================================
-We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
+We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.6. This is the sixth
+maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to
+upgrade to this version.
-It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
-this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
-summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
-you want to know more.
+You can download LyX 2.3.6 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
-visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
-some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
+LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
+on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
+released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+LyX 2.3.6 is the sixth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. It is the
+result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more reliable and
+more stable. Most of the changes are fairly minor, fixes of smallish bugs,
+but a couple crashes have been fixed, as well.
-In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
-http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
+One oft-requested feature (going back 13 years) is the ability to create
+new child documents from within the 'include file' dialog. This is now
+possible. Another equally old bug that has been fixed is that pasting
+table content outside a table no longer pastes tab characters.
- LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
- based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
- is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.
+If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.6, please open a bug report at
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it
+really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel
+<at> lists.lyx.org) and ask.
- LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
- right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
- details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
- boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
- TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
+If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation
+that comes with LyX (under the Help or Apple menu) and the LyX wiki, which
+is at http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the
+LyX users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org), where you will find an
+active community of people who are ready to help.
- On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
- richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
- nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
- looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
- different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
- your dissertation the evening before going to press.
+We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.3.6.
- LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
- internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
- Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
+The LyX team.
+http://www.lyx.org
-You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
-which yields smaller files):
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
+What's new
+==========
-and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
-the .bz2 versions):
+** Updates:
+***********
- http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
+- Added layout for American Psychological Association (APA), v. 7 (apa7).
-Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
-installers) should soon be available at
- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
+* USER INTERFACE
-If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, you may either
-e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
-a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
+- Improve UI of math matrix dialog UI (bug 11888).
-If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
-first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
-e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users @ lists.lyx.org).
+- Fix display of 'by chapter' labels in AMS classes (bug 11741).
-Enjoy!
+- Add support for the doublestroke package in mathed (bug 11887).
-The LyX team.
+- Fix behavior of text style dialog when "Immediate Apply" is checked (bug 11926).
+
+- Focus keyword field in Thesaurus dialog.
+
+- Allow creation of a child file from the include dialog (bug 4475).
+
+- Make sure to load the correct math fonts in certain cases.
+
+- Update autocorrect in mathed so that pressing '*' after a delimiter will
+ cycle through all sizes.
+
+- Display character styles along with fonts in status bar (bug 11951).
+
+
+* MISCELLANEOUS
+- Adjust debug output for fonts by not breaking lines that should go together.
-What's new in version 1.4.0?
-----------------------------
+* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-** Improved user interface
+- Update Czech, German, Italian, Slovak, Russian and French user interface localizations.
-LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
-clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
-menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
-the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
-classic UI) is still available, for now.
+- Update French translation of Customization manual
-It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
-editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
-the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
-extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
-available: one for tables, and one for math.
-Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
-toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
-table.
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-** Change tracking
+- Wininstaller, temporary remove the option to run LyX from the finish page
+ due to upcoming fix of the issue where after installing LyX as admin, this option
+ would execute LyX as admin too.
-This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
-makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
-changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
-changes.
-** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
-The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
-and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
-parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
-much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
+** Bug fixes:
+*************
-** Character styles
+* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
-logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
-omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
-addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
-styles.
+- Fix output of titles in branches and other insets (follow-up to bug 11787).
+- Fix clipping of vector images and when exporting from command line
+ (follow-up to bug 11180).
-** Branches
-The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
-seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
-document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
+* USER INTERFACE
-That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
-"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
-more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
+- Fix crash when pasting math grid with more rows in source than target
+ (bug 11897).
-** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+- Fix problem with drawing of auto-opened insets (bug 11870).
-In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
-use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
-GUI
+- Fix crash when rejecting changes and the cursor is in an inset that will be
+ deleted (bug 10316).
-** Notes
+- Ask to save hidden dirty documents (bug 11405).
-LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
-the Insert>Note menu:
+- Fix background color of collapsible insets with sublabel.
-- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
-- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
- further.
-- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
- well, greyed-out text.
+- Do not paste tabulators when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 4449).
-** Better language and numbering on screen
+- Fix language when pasting multiple cell outside table (bug 11898).
-Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+- Fix input of decimal numbers in RtL context (bug 11900).
-- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
- the language of the document, which may be different from the
- language of the menus;
-- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
- document class specifications.
+- Fix the LyX icon in the Wayland dash (bug 11847).
-** Word count
+- Fix display bug when typing in a paragraph where row heights change (bug 11601).
-Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
-count of the document or of the current selection.
+- Fix wrong marking-text-behavior with doubleclick on notebook touchpads (Windows)
-** Error Lists
+- Fix spacing of limits of sum-like operators in display style.
-Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
-of errors popping up at compilation time.
+- Fix positioning of super- and subscripts with integral signs.
-** Improved bibliography support
+- Fix counter in bibliography inset (bug 11920).
-- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
- "before citation" field is supported;
-- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
- flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
- and law fields;
-- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
-- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
- index processor is invoked).
+- Do not allow editing of math package list in Document > Settings > Math Options,
+ thus preventing a crash (bug 11931).
-** Improved microtypography support
+- Maintain standard layout for separating paragraphs when switching layouts (bug 11936).
-LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+- Prevent permanent disabling of widgets in Vertical/Horizontal Space dialogs
+ (bug 11952).
-- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
- between "e." and "g.");
-- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
- style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
-- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
- improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
- much space between figure/table and caption.
+- Fix behavior of Edit button in Include dialog.
-** Small bits
+- Localize some previously unlocalized strings (bug 11954 ).
-- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+- Fix bug where cursor blinks at the wrong position after changing layout (bug 11912).
-- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
- pdf generation
+- Fix PrettyFormat for Part (bug 11986).
-- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
- edit the included figure
+- Fix on-screen display of special math fonts (bug 11802).
-- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
- has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+- Fix white frame border in fullscreen mode.
-** Bug fixes
-Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
-bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+* BUILD/INSTALLATION
+- Wininstaller, fix bug where previous installations, with emergency version
+ greater than 1, could not be seen in registry on overinstall
+- Do not break configuration if a module file is not decodable (file
+ not encoded in utf-8). Rather than that, issue a warning and skip
+ that file (a variant of bug 11736).
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