+What's new in version 1.2.0?
+----------------------------
+
+LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
+really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
+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).
+
+This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
+which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
+are now possible:
+
+- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
+ positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
+ 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...).
+ Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
+
+- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
+ can be shown inline
+
+- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
+ appear in the output.
+
+- New minipage inset
+
+Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
+versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
+1.2.0.
+
+
+Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
+
+- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
+ image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
+ rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
+ ghostscript method.
+
+- Support for natbib for bibliography citations
+
+
+
+The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
+cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
+process, among which:
+
+- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
+
+- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
+ also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
+ relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
+
+- support for many amsmath features
+ 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,
+ Vmatrix
+
+- Preliminary support for xymatrix
+
+- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
+
+- Improvements to the parser
+
+- Improvements to math text mode
+
+- (Better) support for nested macros
+
+- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
+
+- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
+
+- GUI support provided for many more features
+
+
+Other changes include:
+
+- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
+ distribution.
+
+- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
+ improved in the process
+
+- The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
+ Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
+ version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
+
+- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
+ expressions.
+
+- 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
+ LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
+
+- Updated documentation
+
+- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
+ svprobth.
+
+- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
+
+- It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
+
+- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
+
+- Babel can be disabled
+
+- A thesaurus facility (English only)
+
+
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, half of the changes described in the
-ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
-LyX 1.1.6!
+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
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 in a text file, and they automatically
display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
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) has been rewritten. In particular, the
- PDF format is now supported. In fact it's now possible to add
- new export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external
- programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old export lyxrc
- settings no longer work).
+ 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.
have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
-- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (already present in 1.1.5fix2).
+- 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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