-*- text -*-
-This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.2.3.
+This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.2.4.
All comments are welcome.
We try to group things by topic and in decreasing order of importance.
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-- Allow use of verbatim and quotation environments with IOP articles
- (bug 10505).
-
-- Search for input files relative to local layout files, when those
- are provided and relative paths are used.
-
* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS
* USER INTERFACE
-- The title bar is now set according to platform UI. Read-only and
- version control are shown by indicators in the status bar.
-
-- The toolbar context menu and the View>Toobars menus are now
- identical. Both allow to change icon size and to enable individual
- toolbars.
-
-- The citation dialog has been redesigned, following user suggestions.
-
-- Remember citation style settings both within and between sessions
- (bug 10256).
-
-- Improve cross-references dialog design.
-
-- Implement wrap-around in change tracking's next-change function (bug 10388).
-
-- The Math Delimiters dialog now has a "Swap & Reverse" button (bug 10457).
-
-- Document Settings > "Output" has been renamed to "Formats" now that it
- also contains the option "Save transient properties".
-
-- The title of the source pane now reflects the format being previewed,
- e.g. "LaTeX (pdflatex) Preview".
-
-- Improve information preview of bibliographic references (e.g. in the Citation
- dialog), particularly for bibtex databases that use biblatex features.
-
-- When using Return in an empty paragraph and the depth is reduced,
- the layout of the paragraph is now changed accordingly.
-
-- Issue an error message if incompatible languages (in terms of language package
- requirements) are used (bug 10456).
-
-- Improve display speed, especially when compiled against Qt 4.x.
-
-- Polish the BibTeX add dialog (bug 9795).
+- On Windows, allow to automatically bring the LyX window to top (bug 10469).
-- Fix regression that was not allowing inserting more than three consecutive
- dashes without jumping through hoops.
+- Cache information on exportable formats (bug 9980).
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-- New Arabic translation of the Intro and Tutorial manuals and the Shortcuts
- documentation file
-
-- Updated translation of the French EmbeddedObjects and UserGuide manuals
-
-- Updated Arabic, Brazilian, Chinese, German, Italian, Slovakian, Swedish,
- Ukrainian and French user interface localization.
+- Updated Japanese user interface localization.
* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-- Correctly determine whether the X11 backend is used by Qt 5.8.
** Bug fixes:
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
-- Fix nested language handling with polyglossia (bug 9633).
-
-- Fix usage of multiple varieties of the same polyglossia language.
-
-- Fix LaTeX output of fixed-width cells with decimal separator (bug 9568).
-
-- Fix strike out of deleted display math with track-changes and pdf
- output (bug 9678).
-
-- Do not hardcode required packages for Note inset.
-
-- Make *-lyxformat-* backup files use .lyx~ extension.
-
-- Quote filenames used for forward-search with SumatraPDF (bug 10342).
-
-- The '|' special character in index insets must no longer be inserted via
- TeX-mode.
-
-- Fix preview of language switching commands for single paragraphs in some
- corner cases.
-
-- Show symbol name and description in plaintext export of nomenclature
- entries (bug 10459).
-
-- Correct encoding for Baltic languages like Lithuanian (bug 10474).
-
-- Fix some quote inset bugs (bug 10451):
- # Adjoining closing Single + double quote becomes double + single quote
- (for English, Swedish and German).
- # French double quotes are converted to << >> in the LaTeX file and to double
- inverted question/interrogation marks in the output, if the font encoding is
- set to [None] or OT1 but the global default is T1.
- # Quote type ignored for LyXHTML: always "English" quotes used.
-
-- Output correct identifier for DocBook XML.
+- Fix wrong spacing in output when the font size is changed inside
+ a center environment or a greyed out note (bugs 9598 and 10650).
-- Correctly escape hyperlinks for DocBook output.
+- Assure properly nested \begin{lang} and \end{lang} tags even when
+ no language package is selected (bug 10685).
-- Fix mathtools, amsmath and amssymb not loading automatically for some
- symbols (bug 10467)
-
-- Protect citation arguments (pre and post text) which contain brackets
- (part of bug 2751).
-
-- Handle backslash in label and ref insets (bug 4595).
-
-- Output Preamble code of InPreamble styles before the styles themselves
- (bug 10215).
-
-- Fix CopyRightYear with ACMSiggraph 0.9.3.
-
-- Use \providecommand for logical markup macros. This fixes a LaTeX error
- with strong and fontenc.
-
-- Fix problem with deleted paragraph breaks when changes are shown in
- output (bug 10579).
-
-- Allow for empty .lyx files to be opened (bug 9198).
+- Catch "! Incomplete \if[x]" LaTeX error (bug 10666).
* LYX2LYX
-- Do not convert "--" to "\twohyphens" in formula macros.
-
* USER INTERFACE
-- Fix wrap-around on (simple) replace and in the spellchecker (bug 10378).
-
-- Fix logic of OK/Apply buttons in cross-references dialog (bug 10376).
-
-- Fix display of Examples and Sub-Examples labels in linguistics module.
-
-- LyX keyboard shortcuts now take precedence over Qt accelerators. In
- particular, under KDE, the automatic accelerator reassignment no longer steals
- keys from LyX shortcuts (but can still leave some accelerators
- inoperable). (bug 10261, see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10261#comment:16
- for a workaround to KDE's bug.)
-
-- Do not issue an error on missing characters in 'nullfont' (bug 10394).
-
-- Fix on-screen display of font changes for text-in-math, so that now
- $\textbf{\textsc{a}}$ is also boldened on screen other than in output.
-
-- When selecting special logos, set their color correctly.
-
-- Fix display of Arabic text when compiling with Qt5 (bug 10436).
+- Fix crash occurring in certain circumstances when previewing the source
+ of a single paragraph containing a language switch (bug 10636).
-- Fix selection painting in right-to-left texts (bug 10424).
+- Remove duplicate entries from the Symbols dialog (bug 10644).
-- Fix cursor movement when the document contains high-plane Unicode
- characters (bug 10443).
+- Always show the float type in the float inset label (bug 10618).
-- Fix wrong on-screen text layout where a word would be alone on a
- line.
+- Show correct color name for green in the status bar (bug 10656).
-- Fix wrong on-screen flushing of a row that was cut after an hyphen.
+- fixes to cursor positionning on mouse click for right-to-left text
+ (bug 10569).
-- Fix crash when the document contains Unicode line-breaking characters.
+- Fix metrics of full-width insets when paragraph endings are shown
+ (bug #10537).
-- Fix assertion when selecting muticolumn in math (bug 10486).
+- Fix glacial performance with ancient Hebrew text on macOS.
-- Allow using colors supported by xcolor inside mathed (bug 10417).
+- Fix hole in selection for some zoom and justification values (bug
+ 8883).
-- Change description of "frame of button" color to "button frame" (bug
- 10135).
+- Fix cursor state after double/triple click in mathed (bug #10686).
-- Fix height of cursor inside insets (bug 10478).
+- Fix potential crash when cursor enters an inset (bug 10691).
-- Fix bad painting of collapsable insets sub-label when selecting (bug 10475).
+- Fix random crash when dissolving inset (bug 10667).
-- Always prefer breaking lines at word boundaries even for very long words. This
- fixes line breaking issues most noticeably in languages where spaces are rare
- such as Chinese (bug 10299).
-
-- Do not use the clipboard stack when transforming selection into an
- inset (bug 6570).
-
-- Fix display and output of math macros with optional arguments appearing
- in the optional argument of another macro.
-
-- Do not prematurely cut selected text when inserting a Hyperref (bug 10306).
-
-- Consider the argument of the hyperref-insert function even if there is a
- selection.
-
-- Fix size of Section* headings in amsart.
-
-- Fix possible crash with Save As... when online spell-checking is active.
-
-- Correctly enable/disable citation dialog widgets on initialization.
-
-- Correct width of the navigating window in the document settings and
- preferences dialogs in non-English localizations.
-
-- Fix display of some text-mode accents in the citation preview (bug 9340).
+- Avoid a case of stuck cursor after entering an inset (bug 10630).
* INTERNALS
-- Squash annoying warning from Qt when attempting to delete a non-existent
- file.
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
-- Fix compilation of the Fexynman diagram example file.
-
-- Added some comments to User Guide section 6.1 about defining formatted
- references (bug 10545).
-
-- Fix translation of Fixme module description (bug 10058).
-
* LYXHTML
* BUILD/INSTALLATION
-- Update boost source to 1.62.
-
-- Fix compiler warnings from clang 3.9 and gcc 6.
-
-- Fix compilation with Qt 5.8.