X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=7a426506dc1164c965e13fd805a393d4179dc0fa;hb=0d50b62f73ec3fa1c33b3bc59dd180de14511f64;hp=344e6b1cc73c1a0a056cf4ecc7a31824fff07795;hpb=335f158896c067caa138fa7bcf9a9b38fcca1e35;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 344e6b1cc7..7a426506dc 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ !!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. +* 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 @@ -14,15 +16,16 @@ 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. +* 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.) -* This allows Shift-F3 to be used for word-find-backwards (i.e., find previous) - on Linux and Windows. +* 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 @@ -32,6 +35,18 @@ * 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 @@ -49,6 +64,11 @@ * 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), @@ -74,6 +94,11 @@ 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: @@ -84,6 +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. @@ -127,11 +158,19 @@ * 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: @@ -148,6 +187,16 @@ * 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: @@ -192,7 +241,8 @@ !!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. @@ -256,3 +306,10 @@ * Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between: https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes + + +!!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 +