+What's new in version 1.6.0beta4?
+----------------------------
+
+The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This release further improves the stability and usability of the
+application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
+notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
+been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
+of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
+improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
+the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
+scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
+count option).
+
+While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
+major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
+1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
+edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
+versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
+the 1.6 format.
+
+All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
+version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
+'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
+problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
+general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
+however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
+changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
+floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
+the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
+slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
+Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
+were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
+should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
+version also provides some new features.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
+stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
+other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
+all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.1?
+----------------------------
+
+We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
+bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
+the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
+was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
+and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
+
+All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.5.0?
+----------------------------
+
+As usual with a major release, 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.
+
+* Unicode
+
+LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
+of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
+languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
+encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
+encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
+Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
+areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
+the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
+bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
+to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
+mailing list.
+
+* Integrated CJK support
+
+The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
+merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
+The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
+the user interface.
+Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
+using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
+Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
+or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
+
+* Language support
+
+In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
+have full user interface support.
+
+* Multiple views of the same buffer
+
+LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
+now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
+parts of it synchronously.
+
+* Outliner and embedded TOC
+
+LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
+you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
+dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
+1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
+
+* Session management
+
+LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
+reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
+selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
+cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
+can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
+the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
+
+* Source code Viewer
+
+As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
+you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
+document.
+
+* New Font Selection Interface
+
+LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
+outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
+provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
+
+* Tabular extensions
+
+LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
+LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
+providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
+
+* Nomenclatures
+
+LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
+you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
+glossaries and fancy notations.
+
+* Tabbed Widget
+
+LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
+
+* Enhanced Math Toolbars
+
+The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
+added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
+to the math toolbars.
+Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
+panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
+
+* Frontend News
+
+LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
+Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
+longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
+Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
+was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
+in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
+unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
+frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
+essentially stalled.
+
+* Change tracking enhancements
+
+Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
+several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
+
+* Converter file cache
+
+A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
+implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
+displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
+to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
+is enabled by default.
+
+The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
+that with the line
+
+ \converter_cache_maxage xxx
+
+where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
+
+* Unified Windows installer
+
+The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
+both installers are welcome.
+
+* Program listings
+
+The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
+of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
+does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
+
+Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
+supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
+
+* LaTeX-package support
+
+LyX provides the following new document classes:
+ - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
+ - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
+ - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
+ - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
+ - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
+
+* Minor user interface improvements
+
+Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
+
+ - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
+ - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
+ - Support for optional arguments for environments.
+
+* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
+
+The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
+Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
+to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
+(but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
+you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
+even after the selection has been cleared.
+
+* Limited support for local class and layout files
+
+Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
+stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
+your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
+can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
+.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
+.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
+should you use different directories for master and child documents.
+
+* Under the hood
+
+As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
+core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
+easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
+application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
+code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
+1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
+series has been to bring this speed back.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
+------------------------------
+
+The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
+of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
+branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
+ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
+python 2.3.4 or later).
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
+
+*) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
+documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
+
+*) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
+allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
+
+*) Improved documentation.
+
+*) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
+ support. Notable new features include:
+
+*) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
+ installation anymore.
+
+*) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
+ inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
+ accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
+ of an inset, or Delete at the end.
+
+*) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
+ gcc 4.1.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
+
+*) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
+ [Windows and Mac OS X only].
+
+*) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
+
+*) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
+ in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
+ be compressed on disk or not.
+
+*) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
+ format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
+ figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.4.1?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
+
+*) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
+ documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
+
+*) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
+ LyX/Mac.
+
+*) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
+
+*) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
+
+*) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
+ installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
+ release.
+
+What's new in version 1.4.0?
+----------------------------
+
+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.
+
+** Improved user interface
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+** Change tracking
+
+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.
+
+** Character styles
+
+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.
+
+
+** 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.
+
+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.
+
+** Minipages evolve to Boxes
+
+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
+
+** Notes
+
+LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
+the Insert>Note menu:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Better language and numbering on screen
+
+Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Word count
+
+Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
+count of the document or of the current selection.
+
+** Error Lists
+
+Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
+of errors popping up at compilation time.
+
+** Improved bibliography support
+
+- 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).
+
+** Improved microtypography support
+
+LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
+
+- 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.
+
+** Small bits
+
+- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
+
+- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
+ pdf generation
+
+- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
+ edit the included figure
+
+- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
+ has poor support for other than English index sorting.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
+bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.7?
+----------------------------
+
+We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
+addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
+noting:
+
+- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
+ the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
+
+- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
+ installer and in the handling of file names.
+
+All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.6?
+----------------------------
+
+Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
+
+To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
+to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
+effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
+unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
+touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
+confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
+Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
+
+We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
+ * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
+ spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
+ as teTeX 3.0).
+ * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
+ and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
+ * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
+ considered as part of words
+
+
+
+What's new in version 1.3.5?
+----------------------------
+
+This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
+improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
+ * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
+ broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
+ case where the files are in different directories.
+ * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.4?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
+five main areas:
+ * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
+ * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
+ they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
+ * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
+ drag-and-drop);
+ * Mac OS X support is much improved;
+ * The interface and documentation localization have
+ been polished.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.3?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
+four main areas:
+ * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface and documentation.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.2?
+----------------------------
+
+This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
+three main areas:
+ * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
+ have been squashed;
+ * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
+ * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
+ the user interface.
+
+What's new in version 1.3.1?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
+features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
+significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
+also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
+improvements) for good measure.
+
+** Updates
+
+- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
+ is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
+
+- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
+ descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
+
+- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
+ polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
+ Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
+ scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
+ class kluwer
+
+- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
+ keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
+ (documentation has been updated too)
+
+- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
+ spanish translation of menus
+
+- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
+ of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
+ release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
+
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 again been 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.
-
-** Xforms frontend
-
-The avent 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, 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.
-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.
+latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
+symbols displayed properly.
** 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. Its project home page can be found at
+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
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 also is the internal
-structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
+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
** Reading old files
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
+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 to be able to read files produced by
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
-- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
- for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
+- 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 ability
+- 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
** 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.
+