+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+- TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is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.
-- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable wrom the
+- 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
- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
-- Some commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore
+- 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?
- 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
+- 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
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 1.0.1:
+User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
- New export to HTML feature
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