X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7a35562460c05c6f7889bc5679d49a8bd4552931;hb=dbd627f5210d025bfc97ef8a94bbe90ff290c611;hp=1429562070372c61e96ad2009b2226426ab37375;hpb=15f13c79ed1f847aa5c50c0f51348a4ff6a76f44;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1429562070..7a35562460 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,1169 @@ +What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2) +---------------------------- + +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2). +We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate +any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions +in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed. + +Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs +and polished the graphical interface. + +What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1) +---------------------------- + +The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only, +no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only +exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language +since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release. + +What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)? +---------------------------- + +Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs +and added some improvements: + + * A new inset to support code listings. + * We have enabled the converter file cache by default. + * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in + the user interface. + Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages + done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors! + +Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern, +this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying +bug fixing. + +What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)? +---------------------------- + +Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and +added some graphical improvements: + * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel. + * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface. + * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window. + +Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of +the user interface have been made, such as: + + - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file + - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog) + - Support optional argument for environments + +What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)? +---------------------------- + +* Unicode + +LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew +of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic +languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to +encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8 +encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX. +Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some +areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to +the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known +bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related +to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel +mailing list. + +* Integrated CJK support + +The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally +merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch. + +* Multiple views of the same buffer + +LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can +now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different +parts of it synchronously. + +* Outliner + +LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which +you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents +dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX +1.4.4.) + +* Session management + +LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will +reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've +selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the +cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars +can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in +the LyX window. The session management will remember their state. + +* Source code Viewer + +As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets +you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole +document. + +* New Font Selection Interface + +LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most +outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that +provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme. + +* Tabular extensions + +LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of +LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which +provides beautiful and elegant tabulars. + + +* Nomenclatures + +Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this, +you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures, +glossaries and fancy notations. + +* Tabbed Widget + +LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents. + +* Frontend News + +LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for +Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no +longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to +Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It +was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX +in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to +unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend +has been transferred to a branch because its development has +essentially stalled. + +* Change tracking enhancements + +Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing +several problems that existed in the existing implementation. + +* Converter file cache + +A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was +implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when +displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion +to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache +is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If +you want to use it, add the line + \use_converter_cache true + +to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is +6 months. You can change that with the line + \converter_cache_maxage xxx + +where xxx is the maximum age in seconds. + +* Unified Windows installer + +The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding +both installers are welcome. + +* Under the hood + +As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX +core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and +easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust +application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly +code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX +1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development +series has been to bring this speed back. + + +What's new in version 1.4.4? +---------------------------- + +** Updates: +*********** + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor. + +- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor. + +- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export + (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector" + that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats + if you want to use this feature. + +- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter. + +- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer + presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package + by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry & + Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout + file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215) + +- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter). + +* USER INTERFACE: + +- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of + documents in the Table of Contents dialog. + +- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars + allowing to select what toolbars are active. + +- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default + layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the + extra toolbar. + +- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901). + +- Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented + characters on a qwerty keyboard). + +* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION + +- A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu + in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics, + floats, notes, and boxes. + +- Updated Intro and Extended manual. + +- New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian, + Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface. + +- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro, + Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian + (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation. + + +** Bug fixes: +************* + +* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT + +- Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously + they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none". + Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color. + +- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered + and alignedat. + +- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments. + +- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX. + +- Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug + 2744). + +- The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces + (bug 2186). + +- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug. + +- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read + again. + +- Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus + with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is + very difficult to do it right (bug 2921). + +- Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890). + +- Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010). + +- Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html + (bug 2843). + +- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files. + +- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex + files. + +- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT). + +- Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files. + +- Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841) + +- Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files + +- Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if + it cannot be omitted. + +* USER INTERFACE: + +- Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900). + +- Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906). + +- Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed + Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045). + +- Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset + taller than the workarea. + +- Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...") + related to large insets. + +- Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on + windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for + 1.4.3. + +- Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs + dialog (bug 3063) [qt only]. + +- Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking + mode (bug 2865). + +- Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908 + and 2933). + +- Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019). + +- Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556). + +- Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations + are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057). + +- Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs + with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets, + tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882). + +- fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug + 2877). + +- when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries + that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720). + +- Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869). + +- Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset. + +- Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified. + +- When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable + inset, do not open it by mistake. + +- When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in + inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable. + +- Give a better error message for missing layout include files. + +- Show contents of branches in the ToC. + +- Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries. + +- Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910). + +- Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s '' work on a + French keyboard too. + +- Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster. + +- Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789). + +- Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939). + +- Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111). + +- Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982). + +- Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850). + +- Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715). + +- Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is + important for phonetic notation (bug 3044). + +- Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476). + +- Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978). + +- Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895). + +- Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663). + +- On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as + the Finder uses. + +- The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening + a document. This is fixed. + +- Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again + (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files + (bug 3066) [qt only]. + +- Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not + tempted to try them (bug 2387). + +- add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files + in preferences (bug 895) + +- Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset + (bug 3220). + +* BUILD/INSTALLATION: + +- Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building. + +- Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine. + +* MISCELLANEOUS + +- The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0. + +- Fix Free Software Foundation address. + + +What's new in version 1.4.3? +---------------------------- + +** Updates: + +- All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no + longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port. + +- Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in + mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at + the end (bug 2201). + +- Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698) + +- Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473). + +- Some small updates to the documentation. + +- Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian, + Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations. + +- Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended) + and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation. + +** Bug fixes: + +* Document Input/Output + +- Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667). + +- Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory + (bug 2782). + +- Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file. + +- Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a + LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420). + +- When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig, + require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with + \color (bug 2716). + +- Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents + when running LaTeX (bug 2616). + +- Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose, + \atop or \over (bug 2481). + +- Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289). + +- Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723). + +- Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it). + +- Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786). + +* User Interface: + +- Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included + boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684). + +- Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed; + inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756). + +- Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory + creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740). + +- Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630). + +- Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular. + +- Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular. + +- Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present. + +- Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an + inset (bug 2830). + +- Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510). + +- Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600). + +- Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727). + +- Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user + clicks in the text. + +- Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445). + +- Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than + one element (like {a'}^{2}). + +- On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection + if it exists (bug 2779). + +- When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection, + don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802). + +- When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given + paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382). + +- Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423). + +- Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179). + +- Improve the position of the cursor after undo. + +- Update labels on screen when changing language. + +- Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the + chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831). + +- Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with + ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068). + +- Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data. + +- Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664). + +- Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only). + +- Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747). + +- Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the + "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404). + +- The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary + directory contains spaces (bug 2687) + +- Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637) + +- New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and + accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode + +* Build/installation: + +- Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x. + +- Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have + /bin/bash (bug 2524). + +- Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user + (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS). + +- Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure. + +- Install python files together with precompiled versions. + +- A scons build system has been added, for details please see + INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary + package under cygwin. + +- A CMake build system has been added, for details see + development/cmake/README.cmake + +- LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free + project and scons or CMake. + +* Miscellaneous + +- LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly. + +- Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration. + +- Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log. + +- Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741). + +- Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to + iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python. + +- Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in. + +- Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been + replaced by tex2LyX. + + +What's new in version 1.4.2? +---------------------------- + +** Updates + +- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level + [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017). + +- Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry + in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed + on disk or not. + +- Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak, + Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface. + +- Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian + (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples). + +- Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language. + +- Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces + .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion + to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. + +- Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for + International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for + IJMP D). + +- Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533). + +- Add support for the dvipdfmx converter. + +- Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures. + +- Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in + the math panel yet.) + +** Bug fixes + +* User Interface: + +- Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460). + +- Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an + acceptable UI. + +- Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on + an inset (bug 2526). + +- Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection + (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash). + +- Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported + and makes LyX crash (bug 2597). + +- Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular + (bug 2603). + +- When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the + language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now. + +- Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language + (bug 2476). + +- Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in + change tracking mode. + +- Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents + with different change tracking status (bug 2207). + +- Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking + markup due to the bug above (bug 2614). + +- Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting + multiple paragraphs (bug 2516). + +- Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line + (bug 2509). + +- Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a + table. + +- Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604). + +- Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure" + error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029). + +- Paint the tabular background (bug fix). + +- Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for + the first misspelled word (bug 2218). + +- Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675). + +- Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only). + +- Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10. + +* Math editor: + +- Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc. + (bug 2036). + +- Fix undo in matrices. + +- Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655). + +* Document input/output: + +- Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout + files correctly. + +- Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical + position) from LyX 1.3 documents. + +- Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when + using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the + array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149). + +- Load the tipa package automatically when needed. + +- Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is + active (bug 2214). + +- Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore. + +- Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions. + +- Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546). + +- Update templates and examples to the latest file format. + +- Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with + pdflatex (bug 2235). + +- Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes. + +- Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623). + +* Miscellaneous: + +- Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version + lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows) + has also been pythonified. + +- It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX + support directory. + +- Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file + lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than + any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run + before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences. + +- Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support + directory on Windows. + +- When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not + rename the executable files. + +- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with + --with-version-suffix (bug 2285). + +- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces. + +- Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also + in the source package. + +- Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows + and Mac OS X. + +- Fix hyphens in man pages. + +- Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named + \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on + Windows. + +- Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression + support via zlib is now a requirement. + +- Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD. + + +What's new in version 1.4.1? +---------------------------- + +** Updates + +- Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode + (bug 880). + +- Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish + localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak, + Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish. + +- Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German + translation of the Tutorial and Introduction. + +- Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in + LaTeXConfig.lyx. + + +** Bug fixes + +* Document input/output: + +- Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363). + +- Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053). + +- Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a + caption (bug 675). + +- Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236). + +- Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex. + +- Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234). + +- Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290). + +- Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in + lyx2lyx (bug 2245). + +- Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin. + +- Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344) + +- Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409). + +- Better layout file conversion (bug 2355) + +- Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook + documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the + complete fix will go in 1.4.2 + + +* Math editor: + +- Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array. + +- Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math. + +- Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217). + +- Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside + math (bug 2485). + +- Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset + in a cell. + +- Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362). + +- Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math). + +- Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361). + +- Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI + + +* User Interface: + +- Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195) + +- Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955). + +- Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph + deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242). + +- Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313). + +- Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365). + +- Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain, + natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322). + +- Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using + classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355). + +- Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999). + +- Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212). + +- Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246). + +- Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to + line/document start/end (bug 2298). + +- Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185). + +- Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006). + +- Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377). + +- Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328). + +- Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen. + +- Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175). + +- Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783). + +- Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings. + +- Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets + +- Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the + file contains additional spaces (bug 1235) + +- Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231). + + +* Configuration/Installation: + +- Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since + Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration. + +- Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1. + + +What's new in version 1.4.0? +---------------------------- + +As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly +visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and +some of the new features are the direct results of this work. + +** Improved user interface + +LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease +clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit +menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For +the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the +classic UI) is still available, for now. + +It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other +editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed, +the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the +extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars +available: one for tables, and one for math. + +Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a +toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a +table. + +** Change tracking + +This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others, +makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track +changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such +changes. + +** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx + +The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust +and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX +parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already +much more powerful than reLyX ever was. + +** Character styles + +For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of +logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring +omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards +addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own +styles. + + +** Branches + +The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils +seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same +document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier. + +That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new +"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have +more than one target audience will find this feature useful. + +** Minipages evolve to Boxes + +In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can +use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX +GUI + +** Notes + +LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from +the Insert>Note menu: + +- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is +- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed + further. +- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as, + well, greyed-out text. + +** Better language and numbering on screen + +Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output: + +- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in + the language of the document, which may be different from the + language of the menus; +- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the + document class specifications. + +** Word count + +Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word +count of the document or of the current selection. + +** Error Lists + +Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list +of errors popping up at compilation time. + +** Improved bibliography support + +- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious + "before citation" field is supported; +- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce + flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities + and law fields; +- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added; +- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the + index processor is invoked). + +** Improved microtypography support + +LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports: + +- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here + between "e." and "g."); +- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the + style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key. +- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been + improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too + much space between figure/table and caption. + +** Small bits + +- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways + +- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to + pdf generation + +- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to + edit the included figure + +- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which + has poor support for other than English index sorting. + +** Bug fixes + +Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX +bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-) + + +What's new in version 1.3.7? +---------------------------- + +We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In +addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth +noting: + +- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245, + the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0. + +- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the + installer and in the handling of file names. + +All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. + + +What's new in version 1.3.6? +---------------------------- + +Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release. + +To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX +to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge +effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's +unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been +touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're +confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on +Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free. + +We would like to highlight three fixes in particular: + * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with + spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such + as teTeX 3.0). + * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (-tab + and -tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents. + * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now + considered as part of words + + + +What's new in version 1.3.5? +---------------------------- + +This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible +improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular: + * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been + broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the + case where the files are in different directories. + * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4. + +What's new in version 1.3.4? +---------------------------- + +This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in +five main areas: + * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x; + * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if + they use text classes not present in your latex installation; + * New Qt features have been added (improved selection, + drag-and-drop); + * Mac OS X support is much improved; + * The interface and documentation localization have + been polished. + +What's new in version 1.3.3? +---------------------------- + +This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in +four main areas: + * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved; + * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed; + * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface; + * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of + the user interface and documentation. + +What's new in version 1.3.2? +---------------------------- + +This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in +three main areas: + * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs + have been squashed; + * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed; + * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of + the user interface. + +What's new in version 1.3.1? +---------------------------- + +LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new +features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some +significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We +also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import +improvements) for good measure. + +** Updates + +- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space + is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814] + +- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column + descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this + +- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to + polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by + Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class + scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak + class kluwer + +- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY + keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings + (documentation has been updated too) + +- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and + spanish translation of menus + +- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version + of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this + release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org + What's new in version 1.3.0? ---------------------------- @@ -22,26 +1188,6 @@ Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths symbols displayed properly. -** Xforms frontend - -The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms -frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best -implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release, -most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter. - -Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to -version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser -General Public License), and the availability of the source means that -many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You -are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. -In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5. - -In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input -invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data. -Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are -highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual -feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes. - ** Gnome frontend Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly @@ -829,3 +1975,4 @@ version 0.12.0, it adds the following features: Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as template. +