+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 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 from the
+ command-line/window:
+ 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).
+
+- 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
+ support is of course not supported in older versions.
+
+- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
+
+- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
+ (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
+
+- 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?
+--------------------------------
+
+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.
+
+In the user-visible department, we find:
+
+- new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
+ direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
+ ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
+ the GUI pops up during the process...
+
+- 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
+
+- new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
+ under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
+ to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
+ in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
+
+And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
+
+
What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
--------------------------------
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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