while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
+* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts.
+
+* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
+
!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
-* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
- existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults and templates.
- That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
- you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
- as Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be changed manually
- if desired.
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
+ not affect existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch
+ personal defaults and templates. That is to say, if you still see
+ traditional encoding preset for new documents, you can change that
+ by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save as
+ Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be
+ changed manually if desired.
* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
"Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
* 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
+ sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
+ Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
* \ct_markup_copied true|false: determines whether change tracking markup should be
preserved on copy/paste (default: false).
+* \citation_search_view lyxpaperview: determines whether external script "lyxpaperview"
+ should be used for looking up citation source.
+
!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
* date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
+!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle.
+
+* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change
+ direction with language.
!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:
* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
+* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.
!!Known issues in version 2.4.0
* Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
-!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
-
-* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
- https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
-
* 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).
Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
- delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX.
+ delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
+ in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.
+
+ Also note, that while it is still possible to compile LyX against Qt 4
+ these math symbols will not be displayed correctly anymore on Qt 4.
+
+!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
+
+* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
+ https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes