X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=31e3e7ca070f112cbff7f05f687a8bb82198e1dd;hb=26f6aa465ecb74de323b4756ed043a6d91b883dd;hp=b7e870cd5fabc050d7a81c6dbd0ed4b813435ba7;hpb=9febb601905b4329615f9f37a6b801cd0e9abaf4;p=features.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index b7e870cd5f..31e3e7ca07 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -19,19 +19,24 @@ * 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. +* Shift-F3 can 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 + 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 @@ -48,12 +53,12 @@ * 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. @@ -68,6 +73,16 @@ * \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 : sets the width of the text on screen if \screen_limit is true. !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: @@ -79,6 +94,12 @@ 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. @@ -92,8 +113,6 @@ !!!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. @@ -124,6 +143,11 @@ * 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. @@ -140,6 +164,11 @@ 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: @@ -166,7 +195,7 @@ * 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. @@ -212,6 +241,8 @@ (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 @@ -234,7 +265,7 @@ * 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.