What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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-As for all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
-of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
-ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
-LyX 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
from the older development version:
- many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
- process they have gotten a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
+ 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 [Allan, details?]
+ lyxrc settings.
-- the menus can now be defined from a text file (like the toolbar) and
- shows the keyboard bindings associated to commands.
+- 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
- can give you an idea of what is happening.
+ 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) which owns for each cell a (also) newly written text
- inset. This permits now to have automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
+ 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, wide tabulars now scroll automatically so that all of it
+ 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 yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
+ 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 you can use this much
+ 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 allow you to finally
+ 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 purpose) has been rewritten. In particular, the
- PDF format is now supported [Dekel, details?]
+- 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).
-- DocBook improvements [José, details?]
+- LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
-And finally, there has been a lot of smaller changes, which are
+- 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 lyxrc).
+ (this can be changed in preferences).
- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
-height, etc.
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