* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts.
+* 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.
+
+* 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.
!!!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.
+
+* 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.
+
* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
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.
!!!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.
+!!! 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. 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.
+
+* bash_completion script was updated for a newer syntax.
+
!!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.
* 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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