X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=6fbaba3f6bfc691f1dd4f01089f6a90c1a885234;hb=8d0d3ea0905172b4a1fba7fbfadba83ff61671c6;hp=80cb2ff3ca997d3e49fc74f4a64b582425dad6f0;hpb=0bf31368379bcfe091489df8948fa4fdeee87e6b;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 80cb2ff3ca..6fbaba3f6b 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,14 +3,56 @@ !!Interface changes +* 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. 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. -!!Documents compilation process and images conversion +* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts. + +* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label. +!!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). + +* \citation_search_view lyxpaperview: determines whether external script "lyxpaperview" + should be used for looking up citation source. !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: @@ -19,24 +61,81 @@ !!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4: +* \font_encoding + The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document + fonts and languages. + * \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. + !!!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: +* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group. + +* 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: @@ -49,6 +148,12 @@ !!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4: +* 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 @@ -58,6 +163,18 @@ !!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x +* Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed, + for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead. + +* 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 + 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