+What's new in version 1.4.0?
+----------------------------
+
+A long time since 1.3.0 now and a lot has happened. Alsmost the whole
+core of LyX has been rewritten.
+
What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
-release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
-the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
-important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
-a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
-announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
+on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
+glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
+LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
+
+Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
+hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
+been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
** Qt frontend
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
-either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
+either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
functionally equivalent.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
-latex-ttf-fonts package on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols
-displayed properly.
+latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
+symbols displayed properly.
** Xforms frontend
-The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
+The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
-implemented, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
+implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
-are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. As
-a matter of fact, LyX 1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of
-xforms older than 0.89.5.
-
-In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
-invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
-Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
-highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
+are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
+In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
+
+In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
+invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
+Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
+highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.
** Gnome frontend
** Instant preview
-preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant
-previews" of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual
-rendering of the LaTeX in the document. With the help of David
-Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
+preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
+of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
+LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
+Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
-figures. This feature can be immensely useful for making sure the
+figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
-preview is only displayed (when enabled) when you're not editing the
+preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
** Math editor
-There have been few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
+There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
-a formula by showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
-formula itself and by revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
+a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
+formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
-package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New is also the internal
-structure of font changes which are now proper "insets" as anything
-else from a square root to an array. This does not only simplify the
-code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
+package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
+structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
+anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
+the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
-implementing support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox and general
+support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
-trickery is not needed anymore.
+trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
+
+- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
+ in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
+
+- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
+ will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
+ removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
+ like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
+ the inset and press 'backspace'.
** Reading old files
-LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which allows to read any old file
-produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. 0.10 series is in the works
-for 0.10 (1.4 time line) and still older files are in the forge.
-Basically if lyx wrote it lyx will read it. :-)
+LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
+produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
+created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
+in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
-There is also a strong demand for being able to read files produced by
-_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has an infrastructure in place
+There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
+_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
-- The Insert>Short Title allows to add an optional text for section
- headings and captions that is designed to be used in table of
- contents.
+- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
+ for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
+ tables of contents.
-- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the capability
- of wrapping a text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
+- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
+ to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
removed in 1.2.0
- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
installed.
+
+What's new in version 1.2.3?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
+where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
+special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
+Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
+
+** Updates
+
+- updated italian User Guide
+
+- updated french localization
+
+
What's new in version 1.2.2?
----------------------------
** Updates
- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
- when this gets released)
+ when this gets released)
- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
the performance problems
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).
+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
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...).
+ (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
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,
+ split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
Vmatrix
- Preliminary support for xymatrix
- Improvements to math text mode
-- (Better) support for nested macros
+- (Better) support for nested macros
- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
- 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
+- 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, spie and
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
svprobth.
- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
New features:
- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
- change
+ change
- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
- support
+ support
- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
- Theoretical Computer Science
+ Theoretical Computer Science
- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
working --with-lyx-suffix.
- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
- line-delete-forward.
+ line-delete-forward.
- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
- 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
+ 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.
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
+ 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.
docbook-book.
- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
- largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
+ 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
What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
--------------------------------
-Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
+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.
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).
+ in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
- 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).
+ 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.
+SGI STL 3.2.
In the user-visible department, we find:
- 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.
+ problems.
- the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
- works now.
+ works now.
- Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
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 1.1.1:
+User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
- New export to HTML feature
- Better multipart document support.
- LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
- entries.
+ entries.
- New broadway textclass (for plays).
- Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
-- New LaTeX document classe: APA
+- New LaTeX document classe: APA
version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
- much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
- have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
+ have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
-template.
+template.
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