X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=69000cc898158b151241a535c02d60191dc5be0a;hb=1c52d8f898a221afca246a808df86266023d022e;hp=c78925944962c16f99f665368b86e6cbaa916d48;hpb=d246375c2c65154fccacac6a6159db3fa606263f;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c789259449..69000cc898 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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 +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, @@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ 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 algorith, floats can be set + 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 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or can be shown inline @@ -27,6 +28,10 @@ are now possible: - New minipage inset +Note that another consequence of these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: @@ -43,10 +48,22 @@ 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: -- possibility to display arbitrary TeX symbols as long as the fonts are - made available to the X server +- 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 @@ -54,21 +71,24 @@ process, among which: - (Better) support for nested macros -- (Better) support for \limits/\nolimits - - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns) -- Support for changing font on a selection +- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection + +- GUI support provided for many more features Other changes include: -- Most of the popups have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and +- 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 fontends are expected for 1.3.0 + version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular expressions. @@ -83,16 +103,125 @@ Other changes include: - Updated documentation +- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie 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) +What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4? +------------------------------------ + +LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release. + +New features: + +- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings + +- change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it + appears to be more suitable. + +- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts). + This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding + +- add support for dvipdfm + +- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the + extension `.lyx' is added if necessary + +- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown + tokens in the file + +- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class + +- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and + slightly updated + +- updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide + +- updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations + + +What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3? +------------------------------------ + +LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release. + +New features: + +- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface + change + +- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and + documentation; new dutch translations of some examples + +- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS + support + +- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding + different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font) + +- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in + Theoretical Computer Science + +- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae + +- new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are + versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available + +- the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A + LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible + with the older version + + +What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2? +------------------------------------ + +LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release. + +New features: + +- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text. + +- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed + to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to + install as lyx-1.1.6fix2) + +- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german + documentation update. + +- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support + + +What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1? +------------------------------------ + +LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release. + +New features: + +- updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation + translations; updated danish translation of the interface. + +- better support for ukrainian language + +- non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by + working --with-lyx-suffix. + +- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to + line-delete-forward. + +- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets. + +- Show both key and label of a bibliography inset. + What's new in LyX version 1.1.6? --------------------------------