Interface changes
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-There have been some changes to the LyX command line. The following new
-options have been added:
+- There have been changes to some often used menu items.
+
+ The following menu items moved from View to Document:
+ * View (Default format)
+ * View (Other formats)
+ * Update (Default format)
+ * Update (Other formats)
+
+ The following menu item moved from Document to View:
+ * Outline -> Outline Pane
--export-to <format> <dest> (-E <format> <dest>)
+- Whenever the user closes a (tabbed) view on a document, either by
+ clicking on the tab close button, or by using the File->Close menu,
+ LyX now closes exclusively that specific view. If there are other
+ views showing the same document, they are not closed. When the user
+ closes the last view, LyX can be configured for either closing the
+ document, or keeping it into memory as a hidden document (that can
+ be shown again through the View->Hidden-> submenu).
- Allows one to perform a batch export of the LyX file that is opened
- to the specified destination file <dest> and format <format>.
- For example, to create a PDF of a LyX document, you can run:
- lyx -export-to pdf /path/to/dest.pdf /path/to/source.lyx
- See the manual page for details.
+ A new configurable preference option has been added, allowing for
+ either (close_buffer_with_last_view).
-The following pref variables were changed in 2.0:
+- There have been some changes to the LyX command line. The following
+ new options have been added:
-The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.0:
+ -export-to <format> <dest> (-E <format> <dest>)
+
+ Allows one to perform a batch export of the LyX file that is
+ opened to the specified destination file <dest> and format
+ <format>. For example, to create a PDF of a LyX document,
+ you can run:
+ lyx -export-to pdf /path/to/dest.pdf /path/to/source.lyx
+ See the manual page for details.
+
+ This functionality is also available via a new menu voice
+ Export->Export As..., that pops up a dialog allowing one to
+ choose the export format, as well as the destination pathname.
+ Also, it is available via the mini-buffer (or the -x switch)
+ through a proper new LFUN (see below).
+
+- The Advanced Find and Replace feature now supports cancel of a
+ long search operation by hitting the ESC key.
+
+- Linux desktop file specification and scalable icon has been
+ included into the tarball.
+
+- The format pdf aka "PDF (ps2pdf)" was split in two formats: pdf aka
+ "PDF (ps2pdf)" and pdf6 aka "PDF (graphics)". pdf6 is used for PDF
+ files included as graphics. Custom external templates and converters
+ might need to be adjusted. The format split was needed since otherwise
+ an odt->pdf converter which is intended for included graphics only
+ did interfere with document export via ps2pdf.
+
+- The support for ArmTeX (a special typesetting engine for Armenian)
+ was removed. Writing text in Armenian is now possible in a native
+ way using XeTeX.
+
+
+The following pref variables were added in 2.1:
+
+- \\close_buffer_with_last_view [yes|no|ask]
+ When the user closes the last view on a document, close the
+ document as well ("yes"), or hide the document ("no"), or ask
+ the user ("ask").
+
+- \\completion_minlength
+ Defines the minimal length of a word to be added to the list of
+ words for text completion.
+
+- \\default_length_unit
+ Defines the default length unit: 2 for centimers, 6 for inches.
+
+- \\default_otf_view_format
+ Defines the default output format for documents with non-tex
+ fonts (OpenType fonts).
+
+- \\texinputs_prefix
+ Defines the prefix for the TEXINPUTS environment variable. A
+ single '.' in the paths will get replaced with the current
+ document dir and also non-absolute paths will be prefixed with
+ that dir.
+
+ The default semantics of TEXINPUTS apply, such that, for example,
+ if a path is terminated with a double slash, all subdirectories
+ will also be searched by both the TeX engine amnd ancillary programs
+ such as dvi previewers or dvips.
+
+ (see also commit 1717ef20)
+
+- \\use_qimage
+ See Caveats section below.
+
+- \\use_system_theme_icons
+ If set to true, LyX tries to use the theme icons as defined by
+ the OS.
+
+
+The following pref variables were changed in 2.1:
+
+- \\mac_like_word_movement -> \\mac_like_cursor_movement
+ When this option is set, the cursor is now moved to the end of
+ the current paragraph on paragrah-down. The pref variable was
+ renamed to better reflect this new behaviour.
+
+The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.1:
+
+- \\default_language and \\default_papersize
+ To set the default language and paper size for new documents, use
+ the "Save As Document Defaults" button in Document > Settings.
The following new LyX functions have been introduced:
-//template, remove this entry later on
-- LFUN_BUFFER_TOGGLE_OUTPUT_SYNC ("buffer-toggle-output-sync").
+- LFUN_IPA_INSERT
+ Inserts an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) inset.
+- LFUN_IPAMACRO_INSERT <char>
+ Inserts special IPA macros into the document. <char> can be
+ one of 'tone-falling', 'tone-rising', 'tone-high-rising',
+ 'tone-low-rising', 'tone-high-rising-falling', 'deco bottomtiebar',
+ 'deco toptiebar'.
-The following LyX functions have been removed:
+- LFUN_SPELLING_CONTINUOUSLY
+ Toggles continuous spell-checking.
-//template, remove this entry later on
-- LFUN_NEXT_INSET_TOGGLE ("next-inset-toggle"): use "inset-toggle" instead.
+- LFUN_VC_RENAME
+- LFUN_VC_COPY
+ Renames or copies a file under version control.
+- LFUN_BUFFER_FORALL <command>
+ Applies the <command> to all non-hidden buffers.
-The following LyX functions have been changed:
+- LFUN_ENVIRONMENT_SPLIT
+ Splits the current environment with a Separator.
+
+- LFUN_BRANCH_MASTER_ACTIVATE <branch>
+ LFUN_BRANCH_MASTER_DEACTIVATE <branch>
+ Activates or deactivates a branch in a master document from within
+ a child (as opposed to the existing LFUN_BRANCH_[DE]ACTIVATE, which
+ toggle the branch in the document itself).
+
+- LFUN_BUFFER_EXPORT_AS <format> <filename>
+ Equivalent to the new -export-to command-line switch (see above).
-//template, remove this entry later on
-- LFUN_INSET_TOGGLE ("inset-toggle"): For some insets, this function was used
- to show the settings dialog. This is no longer possible and one should use
- inset-settings for this purpose.
+- LFUN_CLIPBOARD_PASTE_SIMPLE ("clipboard-paste-simple")
+ Paste the clipboard contents as simple unformatted text.
+ This is also available through a new menu voice within the
+ [Edit]->[Paste Special...] sub-menu.
+
+- LFUN_VIEW_CLOSE
+ Close the current document view only, if there are no more views
+ on the document, either close or hide it (see the new preference
+ option \\close_buffer_with_last_view)
+
+The following LyX functions have been changed:
+- LFUN_CLOSE_TAB_GROUP ("close-tab-group") was renamed to
+ LFUN_TAB_GROUP_CLOSE ("tab-group-close").
+
+- LFUN_SPIT_VIEW ("split-view") was renamed to
+ LFUN_VIEW_SPLIT ("view-split").
+
+- LFUN_BREAK_PARAGRAPH ("break-paragraph") was renamed to
+ LFUN_PARAGRAPH_BREAK ("paragraph-break").
The following LyX key bindings have been changed:
-//template, remove this entry later on
-- LFUN_MATH_MACRO_FOLD ("math-macro-fold")
- The binding to "C-minus" has changed to "C-S-underscore".
+- The binding "C-w" was moved from "buffer-close" to "view-close"
+ (only in cua.bind).
+
+Changes with respect to external programs and libraries:
+--------------------------------------------------------
-New external programs and libraries:
-------------------------------------
+- LyX links now against libmagic (http://www.darwinsys.com/file/) if it is
+ available at compile time. This improves the file format detection of
+ included graphics and other files. The old builtin format detection code
+ is used if libmagic is not available.
-LyX 2.0 introduces support for some new external helper programs/libraries,
-while the support for some existing programs has been dropped. This
-particularly applies to spell checking and the thesaurus.
+- LyX no longer uses gettext for reading the translation files. This
+ especially has an advantage on Windows, reducing the time it takes to
+ find the correct translation.
-Known issues in version 2.0.0
+Known issues in version 2.1.0
-----------------------------
- LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on systems
Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.1.x
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+- In order to improve reported scrolling slowness, we changed the way
+ screen painting is done. This, however, can slow down the performance
+ on remote X connections and we provide the \\use_qimage preference
+ variable, which brings back the old way of painting (when set to false).
+
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