* 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 for word-find on OSX is now Cmd-E, as is the Apple standard. The
- shortcut for word-find-previous is Cmd-G.
+* 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 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).
!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
!!!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.
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 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:
!!! 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
- 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.
+ - 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.
* 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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