X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=40abf2af03bebf3ec769f2f555a0e1412495182f;hb=6bcc0155b62ca84e527aed4e36015faf530b159d;hp=6e19d292ae7b7ab7b129a1aa41b195ab1001e15a;hpb=2d4ac410dc5debe174fd542d2d915a7a5913ecb0;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 6e19d292ae..40abf2af03 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,17 +3,51 @@ !!Interface changes -- It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry +* It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is underway. - The LFUN for this is export-cancel. + The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the 'spinner' + to cancel export. +* The items on the Edit menu have been reordered, and many of the shortcuts + have been changed so that they are more intuitive in the case of often + used items. We understand that this may frustrate some users and apologize, + while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the + stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it. + +* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts. -!!Documents compilation process and images conversion +!!Documents compilation process and images conversion +* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does + not affect existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch + personal defaults and templates. That is to say, if you still see + traditional encoding preset for new documents, you can change that + by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save as + Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be + changed manually if desired. + +* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the + "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed. + +* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input + encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii". + +* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e. + only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous + implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples), + some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a + DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on + sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled. + Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX. !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4: +* \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking + are underlined in the workarea (default: true). + +* \ct_markup_copied true|false: determines whether change tracking markup should be + preserved on copy/paste (default: false). !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: @@ -29,6 +63,9 @@ * \use_qimage This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter. +* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage + There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore. + * \date_insert_format The function date-insert has been removed and superseded by info-insert date. The latter does not need a pref value anymore. @@ -36,8 +73,25 @@ !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4: +* bidi is a helper function to implement icons that are different between LTR and RTL text. + +* buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next + export. + +* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document + in the (personal) templates folder. + * export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes. +* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children. + +* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document. + +* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph + surrounding the actual cursor position. + +* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style. + !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4: @@ -45,19 +99,38 @@ * info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs * +* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion + ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion + context's language). + !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4: * date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date. +!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle. + +* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change + direction with language. !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4: +* As a result of a major restructuring of the templates and example + directories, almost all examples and templates files have been renamed and + moved to subfolders that reflect the layout category. + The files now have much more decriptive (and longer) names, and they use + URL encoding for specific special characters such as '(', ')' and '&'. + Notably also the file that opens for new users has been renamed (from + splash.lyx to Welcome.lyx). !!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory +* The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized. + They are now much more structured (by means of layout categories) and thus + consist of many new subfolders. + !!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4: @@ -73,6 +146,9 @@ * The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used. +* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped. + +* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section. !!Known issues in version 2.4.0 @@ -85,13 +161,17 @@ * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed, for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead. -!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0 - -* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between: - https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes - * Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161). Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are - delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX. + delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX + in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint. + + Also note, that while it is still possible to compile LyX against Qt 4 + these math symbols will not be displayed correctly anymore on Qt 4. + +!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0 + +* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between: + https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes