X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=7c13d8d2e85250ecb0b57b7f8a7b4cdea02fb728;hb=fcd735d74cec8e1931f56efd4eb8cdfdff2c4250;hp=30e294840d6dc2bf22597d57685c8232bbb02679;hpb=dc41c1f6dfe328932dfddaaa57ba4cd34b0d7380;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index 30e294840d..7c13d8d2e8 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -14,27 +14,58 @@ 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. + +* 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. + +* The shortcut for word-find on OSX is now Cmd-E, as is the Apple standard. The + shortcut for word-find-previous is Cmd-G. + +* 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. + !!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 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: @@ -69,13 +100,31 @@ * 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. + +* 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. @@ -94,6 +143,10 @@ * 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: @@ -128,6 +181,31 @@ * 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. + +!!! 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. !!Known issues in version 2.4.0 @@ -140,13 +218,17 @@ * Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed, for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead. -!! 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. + 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