X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=96c855dab04e67255dda6a070216d2b837b34ed8;hb=30f200a7e73b61c5b8c69f91ca8020c5b85c158b;hp=ff82b29d01d7a395b8b073bbfc25010ca3f88020;hpb=37c3024b5ae56601aeee7fee09d4d20668ff15b3;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ff82b29d01..96c855dab0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,78 +1,279 @@ -What's new in version 1.6.0alpha1? ----------------------------- +What's new in version 2.0.0? +------------------------------- + +The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 + +* Advanced Search Facility +* Spell-checking on the Fly +* Compare Documents Feature +* XHTML Output +* Multilingual Thesaurus +* XeTeX Backend +* Multiple Indices Support +* Progress View and Debugging Pane +* Enhanced Instant Preview +* Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files +* Enhanced Version Control Features +* Typesetting in background + + +What's new in version 1.6.10? +------------------------------ +The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and +import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit +of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want +to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still +writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's +new features. -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 +What's new in version 1.6.9? +----------------------------- -What's new in version 1.5.1? ----------------------------- +We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us +and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from +the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a +new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9. + + +What's new in version 1.6.8? +----------------------------- + +LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version +even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been +reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user +interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts. + + +What's new in version 1.6.7? +----------------------------- + +From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight +particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with +Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly +with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade +LyX as well. + + +What's new in version 1.6.6.1? +------------------------------ + +The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced +by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying +a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be +reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6. + + +What's new in version 1.6.6? +----------------------------- + +The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number +of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing +program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also +introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking +backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German +spelling in parallel). + + +What's new in version 1.6.5? +----------------------------- + +The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly +reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and +some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX +server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other +applications such as JabRef on this platform as well). + + +What's new in version 1.6.4.2? +------------------------------- + +The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on +Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). + + +What's new in version 1.6.4.1? +------------------------------- + +The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac, +which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible +via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue. + + +What's new in version 1.6.4? +------------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** +This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release +covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe +issues, such as: -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION +* A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to + 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were + scaled to certain sizes in the work area. +* Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data. +* Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that + helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs. +* Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of + older LyX documents (lyx2lyx). -- Add template for the APA class (bug 2390). +What's new in version 1.6.3? +------------------------------- -** Bug fixes: -************* +This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual +improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are: -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT +* tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and + transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0. + This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation +* The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have + been resolved. +* LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for + fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these + improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is + compiled against Qt 4.5. -- Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set. - This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1 - earlier than anticipated. -- Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language - (bug 2468). +What's new in version 1.6.2? +------------------------------- -- Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some - problems remain). +This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release +fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by +users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to +dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes, +file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the +performance of the application has been improved, and the release also +introduces some new features and user interface improvements. -- Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086). -- Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094). +What's new in version 1.6.1? +------------------------------- -* USER INTERFACE: +This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and +as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major +problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new +features. -- Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096). -- Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). +What's new in version 1.6.0? +------------------------------- -- Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse - button. +The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in +http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 + +* Multiple Work Areas +* Split Views +* User-formattable Collapsable Insets +* Layout Modules +* Layout combobox changes +* Support for the LaTeX package hyperref +* Support for hyperlinks and URLs +* Improved floats +* New implementation of math macros +* Completion popup +* Inset Tooltip +* Context Menu +* Symbols dialog +* Shortcut Configuration dialog +* Paste Graphics from the Clipboard +* "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement +* Fullscreen mode +* Extended Outliner +* Session management +* Subversion support +* Graphics parameters groups +* LyX functions manual +* Multi-LFUN Keybindings -- Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only). -- Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection - is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672). +What's new in version 1.5.7? +---------------------------- + +This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is +expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of +stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release, +LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this +release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature +requires python 2.3.4 or newer). -- When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected - text in the URL inset (bug 683). -- Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when - updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053). +What's new in version 1.5.6? +---------------------------- + +This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been +started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX +even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also, +further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23 +languages. + +What's new in version 1.5.5? +---------------------------- + +This release further improves the stability and usability of the +application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most +notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just +been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions +of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved. + + +What's new in version 1.5.4? +---------------------------- + +This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability +improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in +the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and +scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character +count option). + +While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next +major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX +1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding +edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x +versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read +the 1.6 format. + +All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this +version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package +'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license +problem that limited the availability of the former package. In +general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures, +however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats +changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap +floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output. + + +What's new in version 1.5.3? +---------------------------- -- Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on - platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076). +This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and +the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that +slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on +Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes +were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that +should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this +version also provides some new features. -- Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571). -- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). +What's new in version 1.5.2? +---------------------------- +This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the +stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and +other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers +all new features of the 1.5.x series now. -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: -- scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which - can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct. +What's new in version 1.5.1? +---------------------------- -- LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument - converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also - checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor. +We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few +bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with +the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It +was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area +and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated. -- Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed. +All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1. What's new in version 1.5.0? @@ -268,180 +469,6 @@ 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 1.5.0 (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 1.4.5.1? ------------------------------ @@ -452,839 +479,83 @@ of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files. What's new in version 1.4.5? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface. - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052). - -- Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin - settings (bug 3416). - -- Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241). - -- Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug - 3510). - -- Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141). - -* USER INTERFACE: - -- Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the - last paragraph (bug 3303). - -- Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with - math insets (bug 3358). - -- Fix crash when undoing ctrl- in mathed (bug 3590). - -- Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691). - -- Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204). - -- Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310). - -- Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state - (bug 3312). - -- Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351). - -- Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from - Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only). - -- Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486). - -- Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large - things (bug 3295). - -- Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a - non-zero descent. - -- Set a default image size value (bug 2458). - -- Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout. - -- Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439). - -- Fix undo for special characters. - -- Fix gui for big delimiters. - -- Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math - delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only). - -- Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966). - -- Fix example for docbook-article. - -- Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525). - -- Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document - class (bug 3931). - -* DOCUMENTATION - -- Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual - (bug 3736). - -- Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848). - -- Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset. - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: - -- Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX. - -- Allow automake 1.10 for building. - -- Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version - 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older - 2.3.x python releases). +This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable +branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the +ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires +python 2.3.4 or later). 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). +This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which: -- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files. +*) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of +documents in the Table of Contents dialog. -- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex - files. +*) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars +allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically. -- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT). +*) Improved documentation. -- 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. +*) Speed improvements, especially on windows. 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. +This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows + support. Notable new features include: -** Bug fixes: +*) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools) + installation anymore. -* Document Input/Output +*) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text + inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be + accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start + of an inset, or Delete at the end. -- 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. +*) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on + gcc 4.1. What's new in version 1.4.2? ---------------------------- -** Updates +This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: -- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level - [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017). +*) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level + [Windows and Mac OS X only]. -- 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. +*) The windows installer has been completely rewritten. -- Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak, - Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface. +*) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry + in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will + be compressed on disk or not. -- 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. +*) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output + format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including + figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps. 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). +This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular: +*) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with + documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets. -* Configuration/Installation: +*) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with + LyX/Mac. -- Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since - Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration. +*) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset. -- Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1. +*) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too. +*) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows + installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this + release. What's new in version 1.4.0? ----------------------------