X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0e24d958a4df54dfeb1c0cdd454975ab71862684;hb=dab43e77955e5b21fa556f53143d42e09e439f40;hp=d5f065f6ebae2028917430604f765388f7c013a9;hpb=ce36c9bd16cb7acbef0c81bbc61817b9147e075c;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d5f065f6eb..0e24d958a4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,65 +2,118 @@ 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). -Switch 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 -- TeX mode has been superseded by the 666 (aka ERT) inset, which is - foldable +- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or + can be shown inline -- new graphics inset superseding the older figure inset [will that be - OK in 1.2.0?] +- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not + appear in the output. -- new minipage inset +- 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. -- new ligature break special character, useful for words like - shelfful, or many german words -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: +Other more traditional insets have been improved too: -- improvements to the parser +- 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. -- improvements to math text mode +- Support for natbib for bibliography citations -- (better) support for nested macros -- (better) support for \limits/\nolimits -- enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns) +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: -- enable switching between equation/eqnarray and align environment +- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed. +- 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 -Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework: +- 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 + +- Improvements to math text mode + +- (Better) support for nested macros + +- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns) + +- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection + +- GUI support provided for many more features -- 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: -- support for natbib for bibliography citations +- 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 and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0 + +- 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 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 + +- 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. -- support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files +- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies -- updated documentation +- Babel can be disabled +- A thesaurus facility (English only) What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?