X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=7a426506dc1164c965e13fd805a393d4179dc0fa;hb=0d50b62f73ec3fa1c33b3bc59dd180de14511f64;hp=0220275c92052e83317427eeb408d2275fd0d5f2;hpb=ba867587f46b04062a13d801b1b6491f59fac4ff;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 0220275c92..7a426506dc 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,18 +3,101 @@ !!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. +* It is now possible to cancel background export processes at any time. 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 red + 'x' next to the spinner to cancel export. Thanks to this functionality, we now + remove the "Stop command?" prompt, which polled users whether to stop a long + process. +* 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 and other forms of deletion will now merge paragraphs even when they + have different layouts. + +* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label. + +* Default shortcuts for saving bookmarks have been changed to Alt-NUM, where + NUM is the number of the bookmark. (They were previously Shift-F1, etc.) + +* Shift-F3 can be used for word-find-backwards (i.e., find previous) on Linux + and Windows. + +* The shortcut to use the selection for a find on macOS is now Cmd-E, as is the + Apple standard. The shortcut for find the next occurrence of the current + find buffer text is Cmd-G. The shortcut for toggle of font emphasis has been + changed to Cmd-Ctrl-E. + +* Continuous spellcheck is now on by default, but only if the user does not have + an existing preferences file. In that case, the old setting is preserved. + +* Document (or selection statistics) is now shown in status bar and can be + disabled by the context menu. +* The actual enabled state of the synchronize TeX output option of the document + is used to enable or disable the menu item for forward-search. +* When using the document compare function, there is now an option to display the + differences using a special "Document Compare" author. + +* InsetRef now supports starred commands. The starred commands stop hyperref from + creating a link (and are only available when hyperref is used). There is a + checkbox "No Hyperlink" for this purpose. + +!!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". + +* With LyXHTML output, there are now different CSS classees generated for + different depths: enumi, enumii, enumiii, and enumiv, and similarly for + itemize: lyxitemi, etc. There is also a new HTMLClass tag, which makes it + easier to provide specific classes for paragraphs. + +* 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. + +* \draw_strategy partial|backingstore: when this is set to + "backingstore", the drawing code will force the use of an + intermediate surface, instead of just drawing changed regions on + screen. Note that "backingstore" is actually always enforced on + macOS and Wayland (default: partial). +* \screen_limit true|false: determines whether the text width on screen is limited + (both fullscreen and normal view). + +* \screen_width : sets the width of the text on screen if \screen_limit is true. !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: @@ -26,6 +109,12 @@ The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document fonts and languages. +* \fullscreen_limit + Removed in favor of \screen_limit + +* \fullscreen_width + Removed in favor of \screen_width + * \use_qimage This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter. @@ -39,13 +128,49 @@ !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4: +* 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. +* font-nospellcheck marks the word under cursor or selection to the effect that the + spellchecker ignores it. + +* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children. + +* lyxfiles-open opens the new examples or templates dialog. + +* 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. + +* search-string-set [arg] stores the , the currently selected text or the word under + cursor in the search cache that is used by word-find[-backward|-forward] if no argument + is given to those. + +* spelling-add-local adds words for a given language to the document's local spelling + dictionary. + +* spelling-remove-local removes words for a given language from the document's local + spelling dictionary. + +* index-tag-all adds a copy of the index entry under cursor to after all occurrences of the + word that precedes the index inset. + +* inset-insert-copy inserts the inset's content (in ToC pane) at the position of the cursor. + +* inset-split is a new convenience function that splits an inset into two at the given + cursor position. This is only implemented for text insets currently. + * tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style. +* tab-group-next, tab-group-previous: Activate another tab group in split view. + The new functions bound to F6/S-F6 in CUA bindings. + !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4: @@ -57,11 +182,30 @@ ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion context's language). +* tabular-feature: added toggle parameters "toggle-all-lines", "toggle-border-lines" + and "toggle-inner-lines" + +* branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status). + +* word-delete-forward, word-delete-backward, char-delete-forward, + char-delete-backward + + The 2.4 behavior of these functions is almost equivalent to the + pre-2.3 behavior: without argument, it just deletes the + next/previous element; with the "confirm" argument however, big + insets are selected on the first call and deleted only on the + second. This new behavior allow scripts to work intuitively and + require the argument only for interactive use. + !!!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: @@ -79,7 +223,7 @@ * 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. + consist of many new subfolders. @@ -89,13 +233,44 @@ !!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4: +* Metainfo was updated from appdata.xml to org.lyx.LyX.metainfo.xml + and is by default installed to /usr/share/metainfo/ per freedesktop.org + recommendation. !!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. + Qt6 the configure option --enable-qt6 has to be used. Qt4 is not + supported anymore. + +* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped. + +* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section. + +!!! Dependencies to generate ePub files: + +* The DocBook XSLT 1.0 style sheets are a required dependency to generate + ePub files. All versions since 1.76.0 are supported. + + Version 1.79.2 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides xslt + style sheets you can use configure parameter --without-xslt-stylesheets to + avoid installing them. + +* XSLT processor is needed, two options were successfully tested + a) xsltproc + - Works on Linux and OSX (tested with xsltproc 1.1.32). + - Fails on Windows. + b) Saxon + - Tested on Linux, OSX and Windows. + - Java is a required dependency. Any JVM for Java 1.4 should be supported. + - Only Saxon versions 6.5.4 and 6.5.5 are supported. + - Version 6.5.5 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides Saxon + (or xsltproc) you can use configure parameter --without-saxon to avoid + installation of this library. + +* bash_completion script was updated for a newer syntax. !!Known issues in version 2.4.0 @@ -105,16 +280,36 @@ !!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x +* LyX now uses the parskip package for vertical paragraph separation. Since the + output differs from the previous (sub-optimal) approach which applied paragraph + separation to sections, lists etc. as well, existing documents + are converted to use preamble code that maintains the previous layout. + The downside is that the workarea looks as if paragraph indendation rather + than paragraph separation was used (output is correct). We encourage you + to try if the new layout suits you, remove the respective preamble code + and re-set the paragraph separation to use the new layout. + * 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 * 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. + +!!Detailed list of 2.4 changes + +* For more comprehensive list of changes and new features in LyX 2.4 see + https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24 +