X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=69000cc898158b151241a535c02d60191dc5be0a;hb=a586cdcade378e8d24837269ae4c2bdb62e24d9a;hp=c4e3c0d2ce9dcb5b51ef7547227342971c0ba081;hpb=29f7055e9527314060b4a74c31a46155ff264a63;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c4e3c0d2ce..69000cc898 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,234 @@ +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 + +- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or + can be shown inline + +- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not + appear in the output.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, 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 + +- 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? -------------------------------- As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot -of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the -ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in -LyX 1.1.6! +of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in +the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the @@ -18,7 +242,7 @@ from the older development version: have been overhauled. - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your - lyxrc settings [Allan, details?] + lyxrc settings. - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. @@ -80,7 +304,7 @@ And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are mentioned here for your information - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default - (this can be changed in lyxrc). + (this can be changed in preferences). - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, -height, etc.