X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0e24d958a4df54dfeb1c0cdd454975ab71862684;hb=78f2a7a19ed70fc077f380cf136f9aaaa40ead48;hp=0ba2e552bbff2b0880eaea9853fb8736a5334a33;hpb=45b15f7207a46693b5fd0c4879e63ae5de9be922;p=features.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0ba2e552bb..0e24d958a4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,32 +2,68 @@ 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 +really begin to 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 +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: +This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets, +which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features +are now possible: -- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets +- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The + positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set + float-by-float -- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been resolved - (memory consumption, spell-checking, search and replace...) +- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed + (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...). + Better longtable header/footer support was implemented. -- TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is - foldable +- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or + can be shown inline -- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various - image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default). +- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not + appear in the output. - New minipage inset -- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs +Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX +versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX +1.2.0. + + +Other more traditional insets have been improved too: + +- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various + image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new + rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older + ghostscript method. + +- Support for natbib for bibliography citations + + + +The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general +cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this +process, among which: + +- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed. -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: +- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and + also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the + relevant fonts have been made available to the X server + +- support for many amsmath features + Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot + over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow). + Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather + split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix, + Vmatrix + +- Preliminary support for xymatrix + +- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays. - Improvements to the parser @@ -35,29 +71,30 @@ except: - (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 or displaystyle on a selection + +- GUI support provided for many more features -- Support for changing font on a selection -Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework: +Other changes include: -- The citation dialog citation dialog has a search facility, with - support for regular expressions. +- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main + distribution. + +- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and + improved in the process - 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. + version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0 -Other changes include: +- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular + expressions. - New ligature break special character, useful for words like - shelfful, or many german words - -- Support for natbib for bibliography citations + "shelfful", or many german words - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this @@ -66,13 +103,15 @@ Other changes include: - Updated documentation +- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat and svprobth. + - 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 +- Babel can be disabled - A thesaurus facility (English only)