X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=6fbaba3f6bfc691f1dd4f01089f6a90c1a885234;hb=98a64be87297a6ea7f6257ff37c70664262ded21;hp=d820c3a3136eef851183a1614937e0ea8830e143;hpb=cc87f3a61c5d4b45060972f78618552f573eedc0;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index d820c3a313..6fbaba3f6b 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,86 +1,182 @@ -!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. +* 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. + +* 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: + + + +!!!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: -!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.2: +* 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 pref variables were changed in 2.2: +!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4: +* date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date. -!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.2: +!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle. -* \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. +* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change + direction with language. -!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.2: +!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4: -* buffer-view-cache: - Opens the last previewed output of the buffer, if it exists. +* 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). -* 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 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 LyX functions have been changed in 2.2: +!!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball 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 following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4: -!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.2: +!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4: -!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.2: +* 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. -!!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. +!!Known issues in version 2.4.0 -* LyX now gives an error if the underlying LaTeX command exited with error. +* See http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome -!!Known issues in version 2.2.0 +!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x -* 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. +* 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. -!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.2.x + 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. -* 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. +!! 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