X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=4fab9b7e1f04b46bc3a11205a7ac5e2bce07fff2;hb=eeef785badc9f27922d419709c2554ed4de56319;hp=d820c3a3136eef851183a1614937e0ea8830e143;hpb=cc87f3a61c5d4b45060972f78618552f573eedc0;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index d820c3a313..4fab9b7e1f 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -12,9 +12,32 @@ 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 following pref variables were added in 2.2: +* 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: +* \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: @@ -22,27 +45,52 @@ !!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.2: -* \rtl: +* \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. +* \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: -* buffer-view-cache: +* buffer-view-cache Opens the last previewed output of the buffer, if it exists. -* buffer-move-next: +* buffer-move-next Moves the current tab one spot to the right. -* buffer-move-previous: +* buffer-move-previous Moves the current tab one spot to the left. +* tabular-feature is reintroduced to allow more flexibility for user + commands, whereas "inset-modify tabular" is now reserved for the tabular + dialog. In particular, "inset-modify tabular" is no longer caught by math grid + insets. The name tabular-feature is kept to avoid renaming icons. For more + information, see #9794. !!!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". +* Functionality of "inset-modify tabular" has changed. See description of the + new LyX function "tabular-feature" above. !!!The following LyX key bindings have been changed in 2.2: @@ -50,6 +98,8 @@ {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 2.2: @@ -61,19 +111,42 @@ !!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.2: -* LyX is not yet supposed to work with Qt5. It is advised to compile and - run LyX against Qt 4.8.x. On Windows, Qt 4.8.5 suffers from a bug that - breaks the use of shortcuts, so on Windows Qt 4.8.4 is advised. +* 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 Qt libraries must have support for the SVG graphic format, because + LyX now uses svg icons. If this support is lacking, icons cannot be shown. + +* If compiling LyX on Windows with Qt 5.6, it is recommended to use MSVC 2015 + update 2 to avoid #9892. * LyX now gives an error if the underlying LaTeX command exited with error. !!Known issues in version 2.2.0 -* 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. +* LyX needs Python 2.7 at runtime. The python 2 interpreter needs to be named + either 'python' or 'python2'. + Building LyX usually works with Python 3 as well, but there might be cases + where it does 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. + +* LyX can produce LuaTeX output that is not compatible with the newest versions + of the engine (e.g. 0.95.0, the version in TeX Live 2016). In a later 2.2.x + version we plan to implement exporting of LuaTeX code that is compatible + with the LuaTeX versions shipped with both TeX Live 2015 and TeX Live 2016. + For more information, see the following mailing list thread: + https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20160520075810.yi3uspufehev5aln%40cotopaxi !!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.2.x @@ -84,3 +157,26 @@ 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! + +* 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. + +* As usual, when opening and saving a document that was created by a previous + major version of LyX (in this case 2.1.x), the file format is changed to + the new file format (in this case 2.2.x). What is different starting with + 2.2.0 is that when we save a file that was not originally in the current LyX + format, we create a backup of the original file. We put it in the backup + directory, if one exists, otherwise in the directory the original file is + in. This is the same strategy as for normal backups. This backup file can be + helpful in case a bug in lyx2lyx caused data loss. For more information, see + #9554.