X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=96c855dab04e67255dda6a070216d2b837b34ed8;hb=3b9caa3b0d4ceb5e89f170c8dfa9fe27ab28cbd6;hp=4efa79260354184e2030ff950789f17920bb1eaf;hpb=f9d1837048272dba79f15045725f4e70e442a633;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4efa792603..96c855dab0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,769 +1,279 @@ -What's new in version 1.6.0alpha2? ----------------------------- - -The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in -http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 - - -What's new in version 1.5.4? ----------------------------- - -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- New manual "LyX's detailed math manual" available in English, French, - and German. It includes the content of the example file "mathed.lyx", - which is no more shipped separately. - -- New section "Floats Side by Side" in the EmbeddedObjects manual. - -- New Spanish translation of the FAQ manual and the mathed example file. - -- New Japanese splash LyX file. - -- Updated French and Spanish Introduction manual. - -- Updated German, French, and Spanish Tutorial manual. - -- Updated German User's Guide manual. - -- New Russian translation of the user interface. - -- Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese - and Spanish translations of the user interface. - -- New example files that demonstrate how to create serial letters with - the KOMA letter class. - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- LyX gives more instructive information if a character cannot be encoded - properly. Most notably, the offending character is highlighted both in - the work area and in the "View Source" pane (bug 3511). - -- Initial support for shift + right-mouse-click selection (bug 2304). - -- The on-screen appearance of spaces has been improved. - -- New shortcut "C-M-n" to create numbered formulas. - -- Character counting added to "Count Words" function (bug 2819). - -- The BibTeX dialog now has buttons to move databases up or down - the list. - -- New toolbar button to create boxes. - -- Keyboard shortcuts for TOC window buttons were introduced. For outlining - you can use "M-p Left/Right/Up/Down" keys. Note that depth-in/decrement - LFUNs are still reachable via "M-S-Left/Right" shortcuts (bug 4456). - -- Improve cursor movement around lines with ending line-breaks. - - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Use package wrapfig instead of floatflt for wrap figure floats. Note - that this might slightly change the output (cf. the file RELEASE-NOTES). - -- Support to paste text containing ligatures to LyX. - - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: - -- The Windows version is compiled with MSVC 2008. - It is no longer necessary to install the Windows SDK and other patches, - these things are now also included in the Express edition. - -- Viewers wrapper xdg-open was removed due to the problems on environments - without desktop managers. Waiting for upstream fixes. - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Fix LaTeX output of documents with both CJK and non-CJK languages. - LyX is basically ready for multilingual CJK now (bug 4337). - -- Fix internal conversion from ucs4 to cp-1255 (LyX didn't recognize - the Hebrew character tav [0x5EA] as a valid character in cp-1255) - (bug 4439). - -- Fix import of LaTeX files that use the inputenc option "utf8x" (part - of bug 4503). - -- Rotated floats are now correctly converted to ERT when exporting to LyX - format < 1.4.0. +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. -- Fix the LaTeX output of boxes (bug 2492). -- Assure that the package "pdfcolmk" is loaded after the package color. +What's new in version 1.6.9? +----------------------------- -- Consider graphic drivers when loading the package "xcolor". +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. -- Fix LaTeX code for line spacing when using the memoir class. -- Perform additional latex run if package clefval is used. +What's new in version 1.6.8? +----------------------------- -- The "dvi viewer paper options" switch now supports all known - paper sizes (bug 4432). +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. -- "letter" is no more hardcoded as default dvips paper size - (bug 2098). +What's new in version 1.6.7? +----------------------------- -* USER INTERFACE: +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. -- Fix crashes after LyX tried to access files on non-existing or unmounted - drives (bugs 4052, 4440, 4534). -- Fix a crash when changing the document encoding while View->Source - is open (bug 3561). +What's new in version 1.6.6.1? +------------------------------ -- Fix an assertion when inserting a non-CJK character in a CJK paragraph - (bug 4349). +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. -- Fix a crash when opening a document with relative path (bug 4517). -- Fix a crash after converting a formula to eqnarray while a selection - was active (bug 4452). +What's new in version 1.6.6? +----------------------------- -- Fix an assertion when inserting a box in a list while at least one - paragraph of that list was selected (bug 4502). +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). -- Fix a crash when opening a file that resides in a hidden directory - (bug 4513). -- Fix a crash when deleting outlined insets while the outline panel - is open (bug 4547). +What's new in version 1.6.5? +----------------------------- -- Fix a crash following the input of an invalid paragraph separation - value in the document settings dialog (bug 4556). +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). -- Fix a crash when inserting a math formula into a character style - inset. In order to fix this, the status bar information that was - displayed when hovering over a char style had to be disabled for - the time being (bug 4559). -- Fix a crash when pressing "page up" while the cursor is in an empty - paragraph (bug 4570). +What's new in version 1.6.4.2? +------------------------------- -- Do not exit after catching an iconv exception (bug 4385, part 2). +The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on +Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). -- Fix update/drawing of character style insets. -- Keep unapplied content of the document settings dialog after - clicking in the main window (bug 4302). +What's new in version 1.6.4.1? +------------------------------- -- Select the correct list in the outliner when right-clicking on the - TOC- or a "List-of-"inset (bug 4260). +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. -- Fix access to network drives on Windows. -- "Accept compound words" in Preferences->Spellchecker now also works - with aspell (library) (bug 4408). +What's new in version 1.6.4? +------------------------------- -- Overwrite selected text when inserting from the math panel (bug 4055, - part 2). +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: -- Fix copying of insets to external clipboard and display of insets - in the navigaton menu (bug 4472). +* 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). -- Fix pasting of multiple tabular cells on Mac and Windows (bug 4436). -- Fix the function "mark-on" (bug 2913). +What's new in version 1.6.3? +------------------------------- -- Fix rows alignment in the gather environment (part of bug 1497). +This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual +improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are: -- Add missing pdflatex format to Export->Custom. +* 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. -- Add a check box to the formula numbering menu entries and disable - them as needed. -- Avoid multiple warning messages from menu system at start-up. +What's new in version 1.6.2? +------------------------------- -- Avoid spurious warning messages about translation of "Plain text" at - start-up. +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. -- Add unicode support for missing space modifier letters. -- Add unicode support for many IPA characters. +What's new in version 1.6.1? +------------------------------- -- The case-changing functions do not select text anymore. +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. -- Set correct width for labels in document class "letter (KOMA-Script - v.2)" (bug 4529). -- Fix section counter problem in Portuguese localization (bug 4563). +What's new in version 1.6.0? +------------------------------- -- Load the amsmath package when \implies is used (bug 4561). +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 -* DOCUMENTATION -- Document in the User's Guide how to dissolve insets (bug 3687). +What's new in version 1.5.7? +---------------------------- -- Fix the bibliography of the French User's Guide. +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). -- Fix a document preamble font entry that prevented the User's Guide - from beeing exported to PDF in some cases. -- Fix preamble error in the template file "koma-letter2.lyx". +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. -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: +What's new in version 1.5.5? +---------------------------- -- Small cleanup to the INSTALL file. +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. -- New script postats.py used to generate translation statistics for the - main page. -- Dutch dictionary now downloads. +What's new in version 1.5.4? +---------------------------- -- Fix compilation with gcc 4.3 (soon to be released). +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? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, - Norwegian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user - interface. - -- New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx". - -- New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual. - -- Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide. - -- Revised Tutorial - - -* USER INTERFACE - -- The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has - seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing - within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon - as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of - Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in - performance thanks to this change. - -- The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance - can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease - on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the - cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on - (Mac and Windows only). - -- The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either - keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445). - -- Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a - consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs. - -- The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils - and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate - to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78). - -- It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them - typeset without switching to the proper language. - -- Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263). - -- The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished: - they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is - not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by - "View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse - button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset - is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it. - -- Inset-dissolve now works in mathed. - -- Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section - in the math toolbar. - - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- tex2lyx now imports the following LaTeX commands and environments: - - \newline - - environments "framed" and "shaded" from package framed.sty (i.e. framed - and shaded notes in LyX) - - \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage, and \inputencoding (bug 27). - - all font settings that are natively supported by LyX. - - all quotation marks (bug 2703). - -- xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers). - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line - (bug 4255). - -- Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that - contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333). - -- Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.1.6) that used - the "default" language. - -- Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an - exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385). - -- Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but - not using also Theorem (bug 4282). - -- Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained - URLs (bug 2265). - -- If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the - system one. - -- Use package "float" when the default placement for floats is set to - 'Here, definitely'. - -- Fix import of bounding box arguments "natheight", "natwidth", "bbllx", - "bblly", "bburx" and "bbury" (bug 4418). - - -* USER INTERFACE: - -- Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301). - -- Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable. - -- Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318). - -- Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its - content is selected (bug 4323). - -- Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334). - -- Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs - (bug 4317). - -- Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330). - -- Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335). - -- Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the - appendix and it is empty (bug 4352). - -- Fix a crash when editing in an inset that contains an horizontal spring - (hfill). - -- Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line - tabular cell (bug 4368). - -- Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via - Insert->File->Plain Text... - -- Fix a crash when using the regex search of the citation dialog (bug 4421). - -- Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in - the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268). - -- Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and - in the output (bug 3172). - -- Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337). - -- Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files - (bug 4287). - -- Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last - of several misspelled words (bug 3586). - -- Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second - run (bug 2218). - -- If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it - was not aligned correctly. This is fixed. - -- Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147). - -- Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371). - -- Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text... - -- Fix middle-mouse paste from other apps into LyX (bug 4394). - -- Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326). - -- Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330). - -- Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308). - -- Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter). - -- Fix a bug when adding a math formula column. - -- Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829). - -- Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only). - -- Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user - interface. - -- Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog - (bug 4277). - -- Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090). - -- Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999). - -- Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified - (bug 4266). - -- Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359). - -- Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters. - -- Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344). - -- Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu - (bug 3888). - -- Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog. - -- Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset. - -- Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view. - -- Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345). - -- Fix on-screen numbering of mwrep and mwbk classes (bug 4419). - - -* DOCUMENTATION - -- Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations). - -- Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation - "Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion - of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0. - -- Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French - version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the - EmbeddedObjects documentation. - -- Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial - (bug 4328). - -- Document that the list of recently edited files is lost when - upgrading from LyX 1.4.x. - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: - -- Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons. - -- Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are - taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only). - -- Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by - "make clean". - -- Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1. +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. What's new in version 1.5.2? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to - date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.) - For a detailed changelog, see - http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status - -- The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish. - -- The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections: - * longtable alignment. - * scaled and rotated material. - -- Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac. - In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for - all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like - "Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too. - -- New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and - Simplified Chinese. - -- Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, - Japanese, Portuguese and Romanian translations of the user interface. - -* USER INTERFACE - -- Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is - enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher. - -- Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840). - -- Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876). - -- Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters - (bug 2714). - -- Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656). - -- Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images. - -- The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or - citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug - 2907). - -- The screen label of index insets now displays their content. - -- Floats comes now with fixed width on screen (bug 4002). - -- A "Title (Plain Frame)" style has been added to the beamer layout. - This allows for setting a title frame without head-/footlines and - navigation bars (bug 3133). - -- The AMS document classes have undergone a major rewrite. Several - bugs were fixed and some new styles were added (bugs 4087, 4223). - Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS for a detailed list of changes. - -- New LyX functions, master-buffer-view and master-buffer-update, have - been added, to view the master buffer associated with a given child - buffer. These are bound by default to C-M-t and C-M-d, for Postscript - and DVI, respectively, for view, and to C-M-S-t and C-M-S-d, for update. - -- The debug output obtained with the '-dbg painting' option has been - modified to be more verbose and in line with the LyX development - version. - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- Reconfiguration failure will no longer result in empty textclass lists. - Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829). - -- Check if the .lyx file has been externally modified when a buffer is saved. - -- Fix conversion from older documents if koi8 is used as the document - encoding (bug 4158). - -- Handle array column specifiers @{decl.}, p{width} and the extensions by - array.sty in mathed (bug 4132). - -- Detect (pdf)tex's file:line:error style messages that are used by some - distributions and that caused LyX to ignore LaTeX errors (bug 4222). - -- Fix LaTeX error with captions in Program Listings (bug 4182). - -* USER INTERFACE: - -- Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with document tabs (bug 4123). - -- Fix a crash when clicking in a tabular cell and the "delete empty paragraph" - mechanism triggers (bug 4133). - -- Fix a crash when using the LFUN 'buffer-write-as' with an argument - that is not an absolute path (bug 4135). - -- Fix a crash when a user removes the underlying figure of a graphic inset - that has been copied and pasted (bug 4108). - -- Fix a crash when inserting a float. - -- Fix a crash on quitting if graphics were selected (bug 4178). - -- Fix a crash when a user removes a formula when its preview is being - generated (gcc 3 only). - -- Fix a crash when using the down arrow in an empty math subscript (bug 4117). - -- Fix a crash when logging out from within the Gnome desktop (bug 1656). - -- Fix a crash when exporting a file with graphics to LaTeX on Windows - (bug 4243). - -- Fix a crash when a counter was ill-defined in a layout file (bug 4232). - -- Fix a crash with View>PDF on the Mac. This occurred only when LyX was - compiled with gcc's stdlib-debug option (bug 4014). - -- Fix performance problem related to Clipboard and Selection on X11 - platforms (bug 4045). - -- Only update the toolbars that are actually visible. This improves LyX's - performance on editing. - -- Further improve performance on editing by reducing the update calls of the - math panel toolbar to the bare essentials. - -- Fix the loading of non-LyX child documents with relative path names. Change - 'Load' to 'Edit' in the child document dialog (bugs 4107 and 4111). - -- Allow roman numerals beyond 20 (bug 4112). - -- Render malformed tables correctly (bug 580). - -- Enable File>Revert when the file is externally modified, and rename - this menu item to "File>Revert to saved" (bugs 3766 and 4114). - -- Update the screen when leaving a 'wide' inset using the up- and down-arrows. - -- Fix a problem where the Delete button in the citation dialog was erroneously - disabled (bug 4121). - -- Reset the current cursor font when going to a bookmark. - -- Fix an icorrect handling of spaces in change tracking mode (bug 3961). - -- Fix a failure to close the window when a modified document is saved - (bug 4170). - -- Highlight search text in the find dialog (bug 3999). - -- Fix the deletion of paragraphs with leading spaces (bug 3600). - -- Fix the loss of start-of-appendix information when creating/deleting an - empty paragraph (bug 4212). - -- "Revert" and "Save As" are no longer treated as external modifications - of the document (bug 4193). - -- Fix a bug where the "longest label" widget in the paragraph dialog was - disabled after its content was deleted (bug 4127). - -- Fix a bug where the cursor was largely off-screen on document opening - (bug 3427). - -- Fix a bug where fixed width insets were not honoured correctly (bug 4029). - -- Fix a bug where the current document was closed unexpectedly when - typing a space after switching between 2 documents with the file->Open - dialog (bug 4211). - -- Fix bug in box dialog where the inner box was empty when switching - the box decoration (bug 4233). - - -* DOCUMENTATION - -- Fix installation links for Hebrew (bug 4165). - -- Correct the description of list of algorithms in the Embedded Objects manual. - -- Fix the appearance of the word "LyX" in PDF-bookmarks in the - Introduction manual (bug 2435). - -- removed description of the program "reLyX" that was replaced in LyX 1.4 by - "tex2lyx" (bug 2766) - - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: - -- Upgrade to boost 1.34.1. - -- Upgrade to gettext 0.14.6. - -- On all supported platforms, allow Qt 4.2 or higher to use the math fonts in - /fonts without the need to install them. - -- Make configure.py remove a log file generated by MikTeX and copy the file - chkconfig.ltx to the user dir using default permissions (thus avoiding a - bug on Cygwin where python doesn't copy ACLs associated with a file). - -- Clarify an error message for --without-included-boost. - -- Better alignment of the version info output. - -- Remove the /TP (force to use C++ compiler) option from scons/msvc. - -- Allow the use of a snapshot version of scons. - -- Fix usage display for lib/doc_toc.py (bug 3798). +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. What's new in version 1.5.1? ---------------------------- -** Updates: -*********** - -* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION - -- Add template for the APA class (bug 2390). - - -** Bug fixes: -************* - -* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT - -- 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). - -- Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some - problems remain). - -- Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086). - -- Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094). - -* USER INTERFACE: +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 crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096). - -- Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969). - -- Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse - button. - -- 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). - -- 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). - -- Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on - platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076). - -- Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571). - -- Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023). - - -* BUILD/INSTALLATION: - -- scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which - can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct. - -- 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. - -- 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? @@ -959,180 +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? ------------------------------ @@ -1143,839 +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). - -- 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. +This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which: -- When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable - inset, do not open it by mistake. +*) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of +documents in the Table of Contents dialog. -- When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in - inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable. +*) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars +allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically. -- Give a better error message for missing layout include files. +*) Improved documentation. -- 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. - -** 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. +This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows + support. Notable new features include: -- Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present. +*) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools) + installation anymore. -- Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an - inset (bug 2830). +*) 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 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 - -- 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 +This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include: -* User Interface: +*) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level + [Windows and Mac OS X only]. -- Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460). +*) The windows installer has been completely rewritten. -- Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an - acceptable UI. +*) 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. -- 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? ----------------------------