X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0ba2e552bbff2b0880eaea9853fb8736a5334a33;hb=b3e376fefc01b678c0e079bf6426c763ecc01984;hp=8d64d63a06dad5de243d7a1432a73ce7d063f892;hpb=8effd3eec4f9f143572875416ed8815e2a26cd12;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8d64d63a06..0ba2e552bb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,88 @@ +What's new in version 1.2.0? +---------------------------- + +LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series +begin to really pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for +further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new +versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will +be just incremental fixes (like the fix series used to be for 1.1.5 +and 1.1.6). + +In the 1.2.0 verison, we switched to the so-called 'new' insets: + +- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets + +- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved + (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...) + +- TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is + foldable + +- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various + image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default). + +- New minipage inset + +- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs + +The math editor has been mostly rewritten (and thus may have many new +bugs :). Most of the changes should not be visible for the user, +except: + +- Improvements to the parser + +- Improvements to math text mode + +- (Better) support for nested macros + +- (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits + +- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns) + +- Support for amsmath align environment + +- Support for changing font on a selection + +Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework: + +- The citation dialog citation dialog has a search facility, with + support for regular expressions. + +- The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend. + Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this + version. + +Other changes include: + +- New ligature break special character, useful for words like + shelfful, or many german words + +- Support for natbib for bibliography citations + +- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along + with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this + improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as + LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX. + +- Updated documentation + +- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them + +- It is possible to cycle between a label and its references. + +- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies + +- Babel can be disabled when using the default language + +- A thesaurus facility (English only) + + What's new in LyX version 1.1.6? -------------------------------- As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot -of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the -ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in -LyX 1.1.6! +of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in +the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the @@ -18,7 +96,7 @@ from the older development version: have been overhauled. - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your - lyxrc settings [Allan, details?] + lyxrc settings. - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. @@ -52,11 +130,12 @@ Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for - viewing or exporting purposes) has been rewritten. In particular, the - PDF format is now supported. In fact it's now possible to add - new export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external - programs or scripts in lyxrc settings (note that the old export lyxrc - settings no longer work). + viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been + rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to + import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export + formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts + in lyxrc settings + (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. @@ -67,16 +146,19 @@ Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. -- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (already present in 1.1.5fix2). +- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout docbook-book. +- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks + largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). + And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are mentioned here for your information - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default - (this can be changed in lyxrc). + (this can be changed in preferences). - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, -height, etc.