* 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.)
+ 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
+ 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.
+* Document (or selection statistics) is now shown in status bar and can be
+ disabled by the context menu.
+
+* The actual enabled state of the synchronize TeX output option of the document
+ is used to enable or disable the menu item for forward-search.
!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
-
-* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e.
- only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous
- implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples),
- some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a
- DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on
+
+* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e.
+ only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous
+ implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples),
+ some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a
+ DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on
sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
* \citation_search_view lyxpaperview: determines whether external script "lyxpaperview"
should be used for looking up citation source.
+* \draw_strategy partial|backingstore: when this is set to
+ "backingstore", the drawing code will force the use of an
+ intermediate surface, instead of just drawing changed regions on
+ screen. Note that "backingstore" is actually always enforced on
+ macOS and Wayland (default: partial).
+
+* \screen_limit true|false: determines whether the text width on screen is limited
+ (both fullscreen and normal view).
+
+* \screen_width <length>: sets the width of the text on screen if \screen_limit is true.
!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document
fonts and languages.
+* \fullscreen_limit
+ Removed in favor of \screen_limit
+
+* \fullscreen_width
+ Removed in favor of \screen_width
+
* \use_qimage
This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter.
* spelling-remove-local removes words for a given language from the document's local
spelling dictionary.
+* index-tag-all adds a copy of the index entry under cursor to after all occurrences of the
+ word that precedes the index inset.
+
+* inset-insert-copy inserts the inset's content (in ToC pane) at the position of the cursor.
+
* 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.
ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
context's language).
+* tabular-feature: added toggle parameters "toggle-all-lines", "toggle-border-lines"
+ and "toggle-inner-lines"
+
+* branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status).
+
!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
* The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized.
They are now much more structured (by means of layout categories) and thus
- consist of many new subfolders.
+ consist of many new subfolders.
(or xsltproc) you can use configure parameter --without-saxon to avoid
installation of this library.
+* bash_completion script was updated for a newer syntax.
+
!!Known issues in version 2.4.0
* Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed
to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain
- codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161).
+ codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161).
Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.
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