X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=45aaabea929a24519dca453507e2d579869d8064;hb=a7b017fd2f1fcc307fa7fc59f0bd47a8160989e4;hp=6aa412b7236253292f12459a3f0375ffcefb51f5;hpb=2ee880ff21ae663630e2ef3a2baab4bb32cc42ad;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 6aa412b723..45aaabea92 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,149 +1,61 @@ -!Important Changes in LyX 2.2.0 - -(: This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 2.2.0, some - known problems in LyX 2.2.0 and some things you have to take into account - when upgrading from earlier versions to a version of the 2.2.x series. :) +!Important Changes in LyX 2.4.0 !!Interface changes -* The --Separator-- layout has been removed in favor of an environment - separator inset. There is no provision for inserting this inset from - the GUI (though some menu entries use it) as it is automatically inserted - when needed. See Section 3.4.6 of the User Guide for details. - -* The prefix for subsections in labels and references has been changed from - "sub:" to "subsec:" in order to avoid a clash with subfloats (conflicting - \subref command, see #7550). Files are automatically converted to the new - scheme. Please assure that you adapt external refstyle or prettyref - definitions and your own layout files. - -* Support for printing from within LyX (File> Print) has been removed. LyX's - printing support was very limited, and most users will want to print after - reviewing an output document (e.g., a PDF), anyway, which can be done from the - PDF viewer. - Users who would like to restore this functionality can create a - "printer" format from within LyX and then define, say, a - pdf->printer converter that does nothing but call lpd, or a2ps, or - whatever. The "printer" will then be available as an export option. -!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.2: +!!Documents compilation process and images conversion -* \save_origin - This variable was introduced to allow saving the document directory - path in the document. If allowed, LyX will be able to locate all - included files even when the document is manually moved/copied to - a different location. If a valid \origin tag is present and the - document was actually moved, the path of all included files is - updated relative to the new location and the new origin will be - recorded when saving again the document. -!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.2: +!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4: -!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.2: -* \rtl - This variable was introduced to guard against any bad consequence of - the then-new right-to-left languages support. It is no longer needed - because of improvements. Now right-to-left support is always enabled. +!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: -* \printer -* \print_adapt_output -* \print_command -* \print_evenpage_flag -* \print_oddpage_flag -* \print_pagerange_flag -* \print_copies_flag -* \print_collcopies_flag -* \print_reverse_flag -* \print_to_printer -* \print_to_file -* \print_file_extension: - These were used for print support, which has been removed. -!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.2: +!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4: -* buffer-view-cache - Opens the last previewed output of the buffer, if it exists. +* \use_qimage + This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter. -* buffer-move-next - Moves the current tab one spot to the right. -* buffer-move-previous - Moves the current tab one spot to the left. +!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4: -!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.2: -* word-upcase, word-lowcase and word-capitalize do not select the word - to operate on in the emacs way (that is, starting at cursor - position); this behaviour can be restored by using the argument - "partial". +!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4: -!!!The following LyX key bindings have been changed in 2.2: -* For bindings where Control + {PgDn, PgUp} switches to the - {next, previous} tab, Control + Shift + {PgDn, PgUp} moves the current - tab to the {next, previous} tab. -* The shortcuts for "bookmark-save x" have been changed from C-M-S-x to S-Fx - ("x" stands for the number of the bookmark.) +!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4: -!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.2: +!!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory -!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.2: +!!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4: -!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.2: -* LyX 2.2.0 and the following 2.2.x releases will continue to work well with - Qt 4.5 (and later Qt 4.x) but will also support Qt 5.6, which brings some - advantages most notably for users with HiDPI displays. Note that if you - compile LyX with a Qt 5 release before 5.6 you are likely to run into - several regressions with respect to Qt 4.x. See #9215 for a list of bugs - related to compiling LyX with different versions of Qt. +!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4: -* LyX now gives an error if the underlying LaTeX command exited with error. -!!Known issues in version 2.2.0 +!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4: -* LyX needs to be run under Python 2 and will not work properly on systems - where Python 3 is the default binary. See #7030 to know how to fix this - properly, since simple shebang conversion in *.py files will not be enough. -* If using LyX with Qt 4, it is possible to suddenly get keyboard keys wrong, - and deadlock. To work around the issue, you can disable IBus for LyX by - starting LyX as 'XMODIFIERS= lyx'. For further discussion and alternative - workarounds, see #9362. +!!Known issues in version 2.4.0 -!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.2.x +* See http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome -* BibTeX errors are now processed and cause LyX to show the errors dialog. - Before, these errors were ignored, which means that it may happen that - documents that compiled without error with a previous version now - compile with error. However, because now in 2.2.x users can click on - the "Show Output Anyway" button, the document can still be viewed. -* Missing characters in the output are now reported as errors. This leads - to error reports for documents that compiled without error before. - However, the error was always present but went undetected! +!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x -* Documents using Times fonts and containing Greek characters may now fail - to compile under pdflatex for users of MikTeX due to an automatically - half-installed "grtimes" package. A workaround in LyX was removed as it - stands in the way of alternative approaches (see #6469). -* With LuaTeX, LyX now uses polyglossia instead of babel if the language - package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select - "Always babel" instead. This may be needed if a document uses code that - is specific to babel.