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.
+* Backspace and other forms of deletion will now merge paragraphs even when they
+ have different layouts.
* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
* 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.
+* When using the document compare function, there is now an option to display the
+ differences using a special "Document Compare" author.
+
+* InsetRef now supports starred commands. The starred commands stop hyperref from
+ creating a link (and are only available when hyperref is used). There is a
+ checkbox "No Hyperlink" for this purpose.
+
+* Alt-Escape can be used to 'float' and redock widgets like the table of contents
+ or source view.
+
+* Edit > Paste operation now preserves newlines in text by default.
+
+
!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
+* With LyXHTML output, there are now different CSS classes generated for
+ different depths: enumi, enumii, enumiii, and enumiv, and similarly for
+ itemize: lyxitemi, etc. There is also a new HTMLClass tag, which makes it
+ easier to provide specific classes for paragraphs.
+
+* HTML support has been updated to output XHTML5 files. A major change is the
+ use of XML entities instead of HTML ones (e.g., LyX now outputs -
+ instead of ").
+
* 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),
sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
+* Postscript -> PDF convertor (ps2pdf) uses -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY by
+ default now (implemented since ghostscript 9.53.3, see bug #12303).
+
+* There is a widespread ban on postscript conversions across different
+ linux distributions and there are currently two way how to address
+ various image conversion errors when typesetting your documents:
+ - either manually remove the bans of EPS/PDF coders in ImageMagick
+ policy.xml configuration file
+ - or install alternative converters for bitmap <-> postscript.
+ In particular pdftoppm (poppler-utils) and tiff2ps (libtiff-tools)
+ are now recognized and activated in case LyX detects ImageMagick
+ policy ban. These will allow eps<->png(jpg) conversion chain to
+ be found when processing your documents.
+ Package maintainers of distributions (e.g. openSUSE or Debian derivates)
+ where ghostscript conversions of ImageMagick are banned can simply
+ add dependencies for poppler-utils and libtiff-tools to workaround
+ the problem.
+
+* LyX now supports hebrew and hungarian quotation styles.
+
!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
* \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking
!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
+* bibtex-database-list: output a list of all bibtex files used in the current buffer.
+ The function outputs absolute paths in the OS style and separated by the os-specific
+ path separator. This function is intended for bibliography managers.
+
+* branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status).
+
* buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next
export.
* 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
* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
+* tab-group-next, tab-group-previous: Activate another tab group in split view.
+ The new functions bound to F6/S-F6 in CUA bindings.
-!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
-* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group.
+!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
-* info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
+* citation-insert now returns a list of undefined citations if passed through the LyX Server.
* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion
ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
context's language).
+* info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
+
+* inset-edit recognizes optional argument "nogui" - no editor will be launched in
+ such case, only filename will be returned (for use in scripts).
+
+* outline-in/out can now take argument "local", that restricts their
+ action to the current paragraph.
+
+* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group.
+
* 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).
+* word-delete-forward, word-delete-backward, char-delete-forward,
+ char-delete-backward
+
+ The 2.4 behavior of these functions is almost equivalent to the
+ pre-2.3 behavior: without argument, it just deletes the
+ next/previous element; with the "confirm" argument however, big
+ insets are selected on the first call and deleted only on the
+ second. This new behavior allow scripts to work intuitively and
+ require the argument only for interactive use.
!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4:
* The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
- Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
+ Qt6 the configure option --enable-qt6 has to be used. Qt4 is not
+ supported anymore.
* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
+
+!!Detailed list of 2.4 changes
+
+* For more comprehensive list of changes and new features in LyX 2.4 see
+ https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
+
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