X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e21dfd9a7280010c270613693a1a4a4c031f8afb;hb=8a4455d459e52510b5c86dd872bcd8c65cc41903;hp=a0d98eefe183ea787af3e990ad1d0c5cd19c39e1;hpb=a172822b28d588376d546fa701cb703e1ff948b3;p=lyx.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a0d98eefe1..e21dfd9a72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,97 @@ +What's new in LyX version 1.1.6? +-------------------------------- + +As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot +of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in +the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6! + +Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many +new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the +GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code +from the older development version: + +- many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the + process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph + popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered + in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups + have been overhauled. + +- LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your + lyxrc settings. + +- the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically + display the keyboard bindings associated with commands. + +- it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar. + +- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for + LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this + will give you an idea of what is happening. + +Other major changes in 1.1.6 include: + +- the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular + object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text + inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular + cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of + layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but + not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it + is visible without the need to enlarge the window! + + While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH + easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some + features may not work right now, but at least it is much + better than before. + +- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful + inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external + applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to + include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format + images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii + rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed. + +- The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for + viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been + rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to + import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export + formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts + in lyxrc settings + (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work). + +- LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components. + +- The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a + document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and + Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an + iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to + have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph. + The languages and the encodings are defined in text files. + +- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2). + +- included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout + docbook-book. + +- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks + largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer). + +And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are +mentioned here for your information + +- the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default + (this can be changed in preferences). + +- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width, + -height, etc. + + + What's new in LyX version 1.1.5? -------------------------------- Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added. -We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, -this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain +We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day. +This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.