-What's new in version 1.3.0?
+What's new in version 1.4.0?
----------------------------
-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.
+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.
-** Qt frontend
+** Improved user interface
-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. The dialogs are
-not copies of those of xforms, but that some different design choices
-have been made.
+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.
-There are a few caveats though:
+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.
-- John???
+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.
-** Xforms frontend
+** Change tracking
-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, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
-most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
+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.
-Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
-version 1.0. This version has been released under the GPL, 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.
+** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
-New features:
+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.
-- Angus??
+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. 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.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-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
+symbols displayed properly.
** Gnome frontend
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
-stopped recently and we have therefore disabled it. We strongly invite
-anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the developpers
-list.
+stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
+strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
+developer's list.
** 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
-Andre??
+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, 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 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
+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. 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 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 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.
** Miscellaneous changes
-- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering if they are
- available (it is not necessary anymore to configure your font server).
+- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
+ 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
+ tables of contents.
+
+- 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
+ spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
+ 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
-- Other??
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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