X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=531cb05dfaa9a8484be46fd4588811921c1409e0;hb=046b5d824c622204e90fffa690d43008fadaaa2a;hp=47fd131905fb10873b67dc456a5b58032e17668e;hpb=d0950acedaa91320340af398bb06d790486a2207;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 47fd131905..531cb05dfa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,39 +2,67 @@ What's new in LyX version 1.1.5? -------------------------------- Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. -We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, -this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain +We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day. +This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6. User-visible changes: +- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only. + +- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents. + +- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references. + +- multilingual documents (preliminary support) + - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt only and is likely to improve in future versions. -- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. +- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the + command-line/window: + paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] -- Some commandline options and X resources are not supported anymore - (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) +- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the ! + in the margin for margin notes has been removed). + +- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense. -- More accurate error reporting from LaTeX runs. +- labels are now editable (not in equations, though). + +- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!). + +- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that + earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have + errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue. + (And you probably had the error always.) - Better definition for LyXList style. -- option \show_banner [true|false] added to .lyxrc commands. +- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes + LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy) + +- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support) - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL support is of course not supported in older versions. -- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable wrom the - command-line/window: - paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] +- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. + +- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore + (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) + +- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to + use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.) -- .lyxrc feature: \backupdir_path that tells where the backup files - created by lyx will be stored. +- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner + screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created + by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether + lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true). What's new in LyX version 1.1.4? @@ -54,8 +82,8 @@ In the user-visible department, we find: - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself; -- improved translations, in particular in finnish (overhauled UI - translation), dutch (tutorial and examples), german +- improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI + translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used @@ -130,7 +158,7 @@ branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in. -User visible changes in lyx 1.0.1: +User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1: - New export to HTML feature