X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=1f645d0c56d2000f38bcc98ab5c855a252b4b47e;hb=99c5a46c68bd605c03d4e3a86811831ed7dd3d37;hp=2d30ae60cc34da8b769e55a3f282ca2134dad5d3;hpb=563bcdb437eca400f459572755503d089f4b4fa1;p=lyx.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 2d30ae60cc..1f645d0c56 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,79 +1,227 @@ -This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 1.5.0 and -also some known problems in LyX 1.5.0 that did not occur in -1.4.5. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but they have -not yet been applied because of incomplete testing. +This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 2.1.0, some +known problems in LyX 2.1.0 and some things you have to take into account +when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 2.1.x series. Interface changes ----------------- -Some of the LyX functions have changed names : +- There have been changes to some often used menu items. + The following menu items moved from View to Document: + * View (Default format) + * View (Other formats) + * Update (Default format) + * Update (Other formats) -Known issues with version 1.5.0 ------------------------------------- + The following menu item moved from Document to View: + * Outline -> Outline Pane -- User layout files must be converted to UTF-8 +- Whenever the user closes a (tabbed) view on a document, either by + clicking on the tab close button, or by using the File->Close menu, + LyX now closes exclusively that specific view. If there are other + views showing the same document, they are not closed. When the user + closes the last view, LyX can be configured for either closing the + document, or keeping it in memory as a hidden document (that can be + shown again through the View->Hidden-> submenu). -In previous versions, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names -using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are -UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed -but they must be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion -is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work: + A new configurable preference option has been added, allowing for + either (close_buffer_with_last_view). -#! /bin/sh +- There have been some changes to the LyX command line. The following + new options have been added: -cd /path/to/layouts -for l in * -do - cp "$l" tmp.txt - iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o "$l" -done -rm -f tmp.txt + --export-to (-E ) -- Cursor restoration problems with Multiple-View + Allows one to perform a batch export of the LyX file that is + opened to the specified destination file and format + . For example, to create a PDF of a LyX document, + you can run: + lyx --export-to pdf /path/to/dest.pdf /path/to/source.lyx + See the manual page for details. -When using multiple Windows to edit different parts of the -same document, the cursor position is sometimes not correctly restored -when you switch from one view to the other. + This functionality is also available via a new menu voice + Export->Export As..., that pops up a dialog allowing one to + choose the export format, as well as the destination pathname. + Also, it is available via the mini-buffer (or the -x switch) + through a proper new LFUN (see below). -- Languages/encodings and insets +- The Advanced Find and Replace feature now supports cancel of a + long search operation by hitting the ESC key. -One of the bugs fixed in LyX 1.5.0 is that previously, there were certain -specific cases in which the LaTeX generated did not correctly reflect -language/encoding transitions in and around insets (footnotes, LyX notes). -After much deliberation, it was decided not to change older files such that -they will still reflect the old LaTeX output; rather, they will now correctly -reflect the situation as it appears in the GUI. This means, however, that if -you mangled the text in the GUI in the older versions, in order that it -generate the correct LaTeX output, the LaTeX will now generate the mangled -text. If this is problematic for you, please get in touch with us on the -developers mailing list, we do have some possible solutions for this. +- The format pdf aka "PDF (ps2pdf)" was split in two formats: pdf aka + "PDF (ps2pdf)" and pdf6 aka "PDF (graphics)". pdf6 is used for PDF + files included as graphics. Custom external templates and converters + might need to be adjusted. The format split was needed since otherwise + an odt->pdf converter which is intended for included graphics only + did interfere with document export via ps2pdf. -The effects of this will be more pronounced for RTL (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi) -users --- though they affect users of other languages as well. +- The support for ArmTeX (a special typesetting engine for Armenian) + was removed. Writing text in Armenian is now possible in a native + way using XeTeX. -- Inset encodings and Conversion from earlier LyX versions -One of the main new features in version 1.5.0 is Unicode. As part of the -transition, lyx2lyx (the scripts used for converting back and forth between -different versions of the lyx files) converts old .lyx files, which may use -a number of different encodings, to UTF-8. This conversion depends on -correctly identifying the language of the text. There were previously some -edge-cases (insets embedded in different-language text type scenarios) in -which the language was incorrectly identified, which caused some text to -appear incorrectly after having upgraded from older versions. This has now been -fixed. Unfortunately, however, the fix cannot be applied to files which have -already been converted past format 249. So if you have already converted -your old files (using a development version or release candidate), this fix -won't help, unless you still have the originals lying around (and haven't -yet made too many changes to the newer versions ;) ). +The following pref variables were added in 2.1: -Generally, it is probably wise to keep a backup of the old version of your -files, at least until you are sure that the upgrade went smoothly (which it -almost always will). +- \\close_buffer_with_last_view [yes|no|ask] + When the user closes the last view on a document, close the + document as well ("yes"), or hide the document ("no"), or ask + the user ("ask"). +- \\completion_minlength + Defines the minimal length of a word to be added to the list of + words for text completion. -Note: There may later be an updated list of known issues online at - http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes +- \\default_length_unit + Defines the default length unit: 2 for centimers, 6 for inches. + +- \\default_otf_view_format + Defines the default output format for documents with non-tex + fonts (OpenType fonts). + +- \\fullscreen_statusbar + Controls whether the statusbar is shown in fullscreen mode. + +- \\texinputs_prefix + Defines the prefix for the TEXINPUTS environment variable. A + single '.' in the paths will get replaced with the current + document dir and also non-absolute paths will be prefixed with + that dir. + + The default semantics of TEXINPUTS apply, such that, for example, + if a path is terminated with a double slash, all subdirectories + will also be searched by both the TeX engine and ancillary programs + such as dvi previewers or dvips. + + (see also commit 1717ef20) + +- \\use_qimage + See Caveats section below. + +- \\use_system_theme_icons + If set to true, LyX tries to use the theme icons as defined by + the OS. + + +The following pref variables were changed in 2.1: + +- \\mac_like_word_movement -> \\mac_like_cursor_movement + When this option is set, the cursor is now moved to the end of + the current paragraph on paragraph-down. The pref variable was + renamed to better reflect this new behaviour. + + +The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.1: + +- \\default_language and \\default_papersize + To set the default language and paper size for new documents, use + the "Save As Document Defaults" button in Document > Settings. + + +The following new LyX functions have been introduced: + +- ipa-insert + Inserts an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) inset. + +- ipamacro-insert + Inserts special IPA macros into the document. can be + one of 'tone-falling', 'tone-rising', 'tone-high-rising', + 'tone-low-rising', 'tone-high-rising-falling', 'deco bottomtiebar', + 'deco toptiebar'. + +- spelling-continuously + Toggles continuous spell-checking. + +- vc-rename +- vc-copy + Renames or copies a file under version control. + +- buffer-forall + Applies to all non-hidden buffers. + +- environment-split + Splits the current environment with a Separator. + +- branch-master-activate +- branch-master-deactivate + Activates or deactivates a branch in a master document from within + a child (as opposed to the existing branch-[de]activate, which + toggle the branch in the document itself). + +- buffer-export-as + Equivalent to the new -export-to command-line switch (see above). + +- clipboard-paste-simple + Paste the clipboard contents as simple unformatted text. + This is also available through a new menu voice within the + [Edit]->[Paste Special...] sub-menu. + +- view-close + Close the current document view only, if there are no more views + on the document, either close or hide it (see the new preference + option \\close_buffer_with_last_view) + + +The following LyX functions have been changed: + +- close-tab-group was renamed to tab-group-close. + +- split-view was renamed to view-split. + +- break-paragraph was renamed to paragraph-break. + +- copy-label-as-reference was renamed to label-copy-as-reference. + + +The following LyX key bindings have been changed: + +- The binding "C-w" was moved from "buffer-close" to "view-close" + (only in cua.bind). + +- sciword.bind was changed significantly (see #8364). The most important + change is that "math-delim" commands now work under Windows. + +The following LyX documents have been moved: + +- 'AEA', 'JASA', 'springer', 'ACM-siggraph', and 'thesis' have been moved + from templates to examples (see #8643). + + +The following metadata files have been added to the tarball: + +- Linux desktop file specification and scalable icon has been + included in the tarball. + +- AppData file (appdata.xml). It will not be installed by default and + distribution maintainers need to handle this file themselves. + + +Changes with respect to external programs and libraries: +-------------------------------------------------------- + +- LyX now links against libmagic (http://www.darwinsys.com/file/) if it is + available at compile time. This improves the file format detection of + included graphics and other files. The old builtin format detection code + is used if libmagic is not available. + +- LyX no longer uses gettext for handling the translation files. This + especially is an advantage on Windows, where translating strings is faster. + + +Known issues in version 2.1.0 +----------------------------- + +- LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on systems + where Python 3 is the default binary. See bug #7030 to know how to fix + this properly, since simple sheebang conversion in *.py files will not + be enough. + + +Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.1.x +------------------------------------------------------- + +- In order to improve reported scrolling slowness, we changed the way + screen painting is done. This, however, can slow down the performance + on remote X connections and we provide the \\use_qimage preference + variable, which brings back the old way of painting (when set to false).