+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).
+
+In the 1.2.0 verison, we switched 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+- TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is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 with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
+ image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default).
+
+- New minipage inset
+
+- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs
+
+The math editor has been mostly rewritten (and thus may have many new
+bugs :). Most of the changes should not be visible for the user,
+except:
+
+- Improvements to the parser
+
+- Improvements to math text mode
+
+- (Better) support for nested macros
+
+- (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits
+
+- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
+
+- Support for amsmath align environment
+
+- Support for changing font on a selection
+
+Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework:
+
+- The citation dialog citation dialog has a search facility, with
+ support for regular expressions.
+
+- 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:
+
+- New ligature break special character, useful for words like
+ shelfful, or many german words
+
+- Support for natbib for bibliography citations
+
+- 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
+
+- 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 when using the default language
+
+- 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 taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day,
-this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
+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.
-- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
- in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
-
- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
command-line/window:
paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
-- More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs.
+- 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
- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
(The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
-- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
- screen, and \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
- by lyx should be stored.
-
+- 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?