-How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 1.6.x?
+How do I upgrade my existing LyX system to version 2.4.x?
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-* Upgrading from LyX 1.4.x and earlier:
+* Upgrading from LyX 2.3.x
+
+The format of preference and session files has changed. LyX 2.4.x is able to
+read old files but will save them in the new format.
+
+The format of layout files has changed but, as before, layout2layout.py will
+convert older versions to the new format automatically.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 2.2.x:
+
+The format of preference and session files has changed. LyX 2.3.x is able to
+read old files but will save them in the new format.
+
+The format of layout files has changed but, as before, layout2layout.py will
+convert older versions to the new format automatically.
+
+The external_templates file has been split into one file per template,
+which are now located in lib/xtemplates/*.xtemplate. This makes it easier
+to add new templates or modify existing ones. If you have modified
+the external_templates file, you will have to move the modifications to
+the respective *.xtemplate file manually.
+
+If using TeX fonts and en- and em-dashes are output as font ligatures,
+when exporting documents containing en- and em-dashes to the format of
+LyX 2.0 or earlier, the following line has to be manually added to the
+unicodesymbols file of that LyX version:<br>
+0x200b "\\hspace{0pt}" "" "" "" "" # ZERO WIDTH SPACE<br>
+This avoids "uncodable character" issues if the document is actually
+loaded by that LyX version. LyX 2.1 and later versions already have the
+necessary definition in their unicodesymbols file.
+
+If trying to compile documents using R scripts and sweave/knitr, LyX
+2.3.x would not allow for re-running the R scripts, unless the user:
+1) explicitly disables the "Forbid use of needauth converters"
+option in the LyX preferences;
+2) provides explicit consent to the use of the converter on the first
+compilation of the R-enhanced document.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 2.1.x:
+
+The format of preference and session files has changed. LyX 2.2.x is able to
+read old files but will save them in the new format.
+
+The format of layout files has changed but, as before, layout2layout.py will
+convert older versions to the new format automatically.
+
+The prefix for subsections in labels and references has been changed from
+"sub:" to "subsec:" in order to avoid a clash with subfloats (conflicting
+\subref command, see bug #7550). Files are automatically converted to the new
+scheme. Please assure that you adapt external refstyle or prettyref definitions
+and your own layout files.
+
+BibTeX errors are now processed and cause LyX to show the errors dialog.
+Before, these errors were ignored, which means that it may happen that
+documents that compiled without error with a previous version now
+compile with error. However, because now in 2.2.x users can click on
+the "Show Output Anyway" button, the document can still be viewed.
+
+Missing characters in the output are now reported as errors. This leads
+to error reports for documents that compiled without error before.
+However, the error was always present but went undetected!
+
+Documents using Times fonts and containing Greek characters may now fail
+to compile under pdflatex for users of MikTeX due to an automatically
+half-installed "grtimes" package. A workaround in LyX was removed as it
+stands in the way of alternative approaches (see bug #6469).
+
+With LuaTeX, LyX now uses polyglossia instead of babel if the language
+package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select
+"Always babel" instead. This may be needed if a document uses code that
+is specific to babel.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 2.0.x:
+
+Python version >=2.4 is now required.
+
+Python version >3.0 is still not yet supported.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 1.6.x:
+
+The typeset of your documents with non-english language can slightly
+change in case of math environments and floats. LyX 2.0.x now has its
+own translation machinery for the strings that are not translated by
+babel.
+
+The format of preference and session files has changed. LyX 2.0.x is
+able to read old files but will save them in the new format.
+
+The format of layout files has changed but, as before, layout2layout.py
+will convert older versions to the new format automatically.
+
+The syntax of the languages file has been changed. If you use a
+modified languages file, you will need to adapt it to the new syntax.
+
+There has been a large change in how Flex insets are named.
+When exporting back to 1.6.x format user-defined flex insets will not
+be properly reverted. See RELEASE-NOTES for details.
+
+The UI layout named "classic.ui" and some localized keyboard bindings
+(sv, pt, fi) are not being shipped anymore.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 1.5.x:
+
+The format of preference and session files has changed. LyX 1.6.x is
+able to read old files but will save them in the new format.
+
+The format of layout files has changed but, as before,
+layout2layout.py will convert older versions to the new format
+automatically.
+
+* Upgrading from LyX 1.4.x:
The biggest change in 1.5 is the switch to Unicode. Please refer to
the section "Document transfer" below for some things you might take
The format of the preferences file has changed slightly. LyX 1.5.x is
able to read old preferences files, but it will save them in the new
format, so it is not possible to run LyX 1.4.x and 1.5.x with the same
-personal configuration directory.
+personal configuration directory. If you are upgrading from 1.4.x and
+do not intend to continue using 1.4.x, you should delete your existing
+preferences file and allow LyX to create a new one.
The list of recently open files is now stored in a different location.
It will therefore be reset when upgrading from LyX 1.4.x.
* Upgrading from LyX 1.3.x:
-The format of the external template file has changed substantially with
-LyX 1.4.0. Automatic conversion is not available, so you need to convert
+The format of the external template file has changed substantially with
+LyX 1.4.0. Automatic conversion is not available, so you need to convert
your external templates manually. The new format of the external template
configuration file is described in chapter 6.5 of the Customization Guide.
Build requirements
------------------
-LyX 1.5 uses the Qt 4.x toolkit (version 4.1.1 or newer). Contrary to
-previous versions of LyX, it won't build against Qt 2.x or 3.x.
-Furthermore, the XForms frontend was dropped.
+LyX 2.0 uses the Qt 4.x toolkit (see INSTALL file).
-LyX's graphics handling system has changed substantially. If you
-do not have the JPEG library installed, you may need to install
-it before you can use the graphics capabilities of LyX. If you
-do not have the ImageMagick command-line tools installed, you
-will need to modify the default set up of LyX, or install them,
-in order to get previews of your document's graphics.
+If you do not have the JPEG library installed, you may need to install it
+before you can use the graphics capabilities of LyX. If you do not have the
+ImageMagick command-line tools installed, you will need to modify the default
+set up of LyX, or install them, in order to get previews of your document's
+graphics.
Document transfer
-----------------
* Compatibility with older documents/layouts
-LyX 1.5.x uses an external python script, lyx2lyx, to import documents
+LyX 2.0.x uses an external python script, lyx2lyx, to import documents
written using previous versions of LyX. All versions of LyX as far back as
-0.12 are supported, so any klyx users still holding out for an alternative
-to xforms will finally be able to put their dinosaur to rest ;-)
-
-Of course, this means that you must have python (at least version 2.3)
-installed in order to use LyX 1.5.x with your old documents.
-
-lyx2lyx also has the framework in place to be able to convert documents
-to an earlier format (which requires python 2.3.4 at least). However,
-these converters have only been written for the conversion from 1.5.x
-to 1.4.x and 1.3.x, so versions of LyX older than 1.3.0 will NOT be able
-to read documents saved with LyX 1.5.x. The conversion from 1.5.x to
-1.4.x/1.3.x is lossless as long as no new features are used. lyx2lyx
-tries hard to find something equivalent for new features such as boxes,
-but this is known to fail sometimes. LyX 1.4.5.1 contains an updated
-lyx2lyx that can read documents in 1.5.x format. LyX 1.5.x can also
-export to 1.4.x format for document transfer to older 1.4.x releases.
-
-Furthermore, LyX uses a converter layout2layout.py, also written in python
-that will convert old layout files on the fly. You can also call it manually
-on your layout files if you want to convert them to 1.5.x format permanently.
+0.10 are supported.
+
+Of course, this means that you must have python (>= 2.3.4, <3)
+installed in order to use LyX 2.0.x with your old documents.
+
+lyx2lyx also has the framework in place to be able to convert documents to an
+earlier format (which requires python 2.3.4 at least). However, these
+converters have only been written for the conversion from 2.0.x to 1.6.x,
+1.5.x, 1.4.x and 1.3.x, so versions of LyX older than 1.3.0 will NOT be able to
+read documents saved with LyX 2.0.x. The conversion from 2.0.x to 1.6.x-1.3.x
+is lossless as long as no new features are used. lyx2lyx tries hard to find
+something equivalent for new features such as boxes, but this is known to fail
+sometimes. LyX 1.6.9 contains an updated lyx2lyx that can read documents in
+2.0.x format.
+
+Furthermore, LyX uses a converter layout2layout.py, also written in python
+that will convert old layout files on the fly. You can also call it manually
+on your layout files if you want to convert them to 2.0.x format permanently.
+
+* Formatted references
+
+Before version 2.0, LyX used the LaTeX package "prettyref" to produce
+"formatted references", such as "Section 2.1". This package has several
+shortcomings when used in a non-English environment, not least of which is
+that it has no mechanism for internationalization. (See bug #6421 and those
+it references.)
+
+As of LyX 2.0, users can choose whether to use prettyref or, alternatively,
+the "refstyle" package. The current version of refstyle, v0.5, ships with
+translations for several languages and provides an easy mechanism for users
+to translate the references it produces into still other languages. It also
+defines many more commands than prettyref does, including, for example, ones
+to produce "ranges", such as "Sections 2.1 to 2.3". Some LyX developers are
+already working with the refstyle maintainer, Danie Els, to make it work more
+easily with LyX and to extend the translations it provides. (You are invited
+to contribute translations, too!)
+
+Because many LyX users already have customized prettyref for their purposes,
+LyX 1.6.x files opened in LyX 2.0 will continue to use prettref by default.
+New LyX 2.0 files will use refstyle by default. Both can of course be changed
+in Document>Settings. Please be advised, however, that prettyref support is to
+be considered deprecated: It may well be removed in LyX 2.1, and all users are
+encouraged to adapt their layout files, etc, to refstyle.
+
+Doing so is fairly simple. With prettyref, one has declarations such as:
+ \newrefformat{for}(Formula \ref{#1}}
+The refstyle equivalent is:
+ \newref{for}{refcmd={Formula \ref{#1}}}
+The translation is obviously trivial.
* Preparing for Unicode:
- User layout files must be converted to UTF-8
- In previous versions, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names
- using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are
+ In versions prior to 1.5.0, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names
+ using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 and later assume that all layout files are
UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed
but they must be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion
is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
- Inset encodings and Conversion from earlier LyX versions
- As part of the transition to unicode, lyx2lyx (the scripts used for converting
- back and forth between different versions of the lyx files) converts old .lyx
- files, which may use a number of different encodings, to UTF-8. This conversion
- depends on correctly identifying the language of the text. There were previously
- some edge-cases (insets embedded in different-language text type scenarios) in
- which the language was incorrectly identified, which caused some text to
- appear incorrectly after having upgraded from older versions. This has now been
- fixed. Unfortunately, however, the fix cannot be applied to files which have
- already been converted past format 249. So if you have already converted
- your old files (using a development version or release candidate), this fix
- won't help, unless you still have the originals lying around (and haven't
+ As part of the transition to unicode, lyx2lyx (the scripts used for
+ converting back and forth between different versions of the lyx
+ files) converts old .lyx files, which may use a number of different
+ encodings, to UTF-8. This conversion depends on correctly
+ identifying the language of the text. There were previously some
+ edge-cases (insets embedded in different-language text type
+ scenarios) in which the language was incorrectly identified, which
+ caused some text to appear incorrectly after having upgraded from
+ older versions. This has now been fixed. Unfortunately, however, the
+ fix cannot be applied to files which have already been converted
+ past format 249. So if you have already converted your old files
+ (using a development version or release candidate), this fix won't
+ help, unless you still have the originals lying around (and haven't
yet made too many changes to the newer versions ;) ).
-Generally, it is probably wise to keep a backup of the old version of your
-files, at least until you are sure that the upgrade went smoothly (which it
+Generally, it is probably wise to keep a backup of the old version of your
+files, at least until you are sure that the upgrade went smoothly (which it
almost always will).
* Languages/encodings and insets
-One of the bugs fixed in LyX 1.5.0 is that previously, there were certain
-specific cases in which the LaTeX generated did not correctly reflect
+One of the bugs fixed in LyX 1.5.0 is that previously, there were certain
+specific cases in which the LaTeX generated did not correctly reflect
language/encoding transitions in and around insets (footnotes, LyX notes).
After much deliberation, it was decided not to change older files such that
they will still reflect the old LaTeX output; rather, they will now correctly
-reflect the situation as it appears in the GUI. This means, however, that if
+reflect the situation as it appears in the GUI. This means, however, that if
you mangled the text in the GUI in the older versions, in order that it
-generate the correct LaTeX output, the LaTeX will now generate the mangled
+generate the correct LaTeX output, the LaTeX will now generate the mangled
text. If this is problematic for you, please get in touch with us on the
developers mailing list, we do have some possible solutions for this.
-The effects of this will be more pronounced for RTL (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
+The effects of this will be more pronounced for RTL (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
users -- though they affect users of other languages as well.
* Floatflt in 1.2.x and older
definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at
the beginning of your preamble.
-http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315
+http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/315
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