* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
+* Default shortcuts for saving bookmarks have been changed to Alt-NUM, where
+ NUM is the number of the bookmark. (They were previously Shift-F1, etc.)
+
+* This allows Shift-F3 to be used for word-find-backwards (i.e., find previous)
+ on Linux and Windows.
+
+* The shortcut to use the selection for a find on macOS is now Cmd-E, as is the
+ Apple standard. The shortcut for find the next occurrence of the current
+ find buffer text is Cmd-G. The shortcut for toggle of font emphasis has been
+ changed to Cmd-Ctrl-E.
+
+* Continuous spellcheck is now on by default, but only if the user does not have
+ an existing preferences file. In that case, the old setting is preserved.
+
!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
-* bidi is a helper function to implement icons that are different between LTR and RTL text.
-
* buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next
export.
* export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes.
+* font-nospellcheck marks the word under cursor or selection to the effect that the
+ spellchecker ignores it.
+
* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children.
+* lyxfiles-open opens the new examples or templates dialog.
+
* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document.
* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph
surrounding the actual cursor position.
+* search-string-set [arg] stores the <arg>, the currently selected text or the word under
+ cursor in the search cache that is used by word-find[-backward|-forward] if no argument
+ is given to those.
+
+* spelling-add-local adds words for a given language to the document's local spelling
+ dictionary.
+
+* spelling-remove-local removes words for a given language from the document's local
+ spelling dictionary.
+
* inset-split is a new convenience function that splits an inset into two at the given
cursor position. This is only implemented for text insets currently.
!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4:
+* Metainfo was updated from appdata.xml to org.lyx.LyX.metainfo.xml
+ and is by default installed to /usr/share/metainfo/ per freedesktop.org
+ recommendation.
!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4:
* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.
-* Java is a required dependency to generate ePub files. Any JVM for Java 1.4
- should be supported.
-
-* Saxon is a required dependency to generate ePub files. Only versions 6.5.4
- and 6.5.5 are supported. Version 6.5.5 is bundled with LyX.
+!!! Dependencies to generate ePub files:
* The DocBook XSLT 1.0 style sheets are a required dependency to generate
- ePub files. All versions since 1.76.0 are supported. Version 1.79.2 is
- bundled with LyX.
+ ePub files. All versions since 1.76.0 are supported.
+
+ Version 1.79.2 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides xslt
+ style sheets you can use configure parameter --without-xslt-stylesheets to
+ avoid installing them.
+
+
+* XSLT processor is needed, two options were successfully tested
+ a) xsltproc
+ - Works on Linux and OSX (tested with xsltproc 1.1.32).
+ - Fails on Windows.
+ b) Saxon
+ - Tested on Linux, OSX and Windows.
+ - Java is a required dependency. Any JVM for Java 1.4 should be supported.
+ - Only Saxon versions 6.5.4 and 6.5.5 are supported.
+ - Version 6.5.5 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides Saxon
+ (or xsltproc) you can use configure parameter --without-saxon to avoid
+ installation of this library.
!!Known issues in version 2.4.0
!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x
+* LyX now uses the parskip package for vertical paragraph separation. Since the
+ output differs from the previous (sub-optimal) approach which applied paragraph
+ separation to sections, lists etc. as well, existing documents
+ are converted to use preamble code that maintains the previous layout.
+ The downside is that the workarea looks as if paragraph indendation rather
+ than paragraph separation was used (output is correct). We encourage you
+ to try if the new layout suits you, remove the respective preamble code
+ and re-set the paragraph separation to use the new layout.
+
* Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
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