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+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
+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
+and 1.1.6). 
+
+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. 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 addressed
+  (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...). 
+  Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
+
+- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
+  can be shown inline
+
+- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
+  appear in the output.
+
+- New minipage inset
+
+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.
+
+- 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
+
+- 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
+
+
+Other changes include:
+
+- 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.
+
+- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
+
+- Babel can be disabled
+
+- A thesaurus facility (English only)
+
+
 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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