X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=b101db28d789312cb4f43961ebbd78f993615ba1;hb=5f36a413ae3db548e8bbc20c94faf18d73ce9443;hp=c03ffe5c30732676bd96e8c22ecbb4ef16298fc6;hpb=ba002eec84f4bc4b9ab369a23d8b6cc040f42f8e;p=features.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index c03ffe5c30..b101db28d7 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ * The prefix for subsections in labels and references has been changed from "sub:" to "subsec:" in order to avoid a clash with subfloats (conflicting - \subref command, see bug #7550). Files are automatically converted to the new - scheme. Please assure that you adapt external refstyle or prettyref definitions - and your own layout files. + \subref command, see #7550). Files are automatically converted to the new + scheme. Please assure that you adapt external refstyle or prettyref + definitions and your own layout files. -* Support for printing from within LyX (File> Print) has been removed. LyX's - printing support was very limited, and most users will want to print after +* Support for printing from within LyX (File> Print) has been removed. LyX's + printing support was very limited, and most users will want to print after reviewing an output document (e.g., a PDF), anyway, which can be done from the - PDF viewer. - Users who would like to restore this functionality can create a "printer" - format from within LyX and then define, say, a pdf->printer converter that does - nothing but call lpd, or a2ps, or whatever. The "printer" will then be available - as an export option. - + PDF viewer. + Users who would like to restore this functionality can create a + "printer" format from within LyX and then define, say, a + pdf->printer converter that does nothing but call lpd, or a2ps, or + whatever. The "printer" will then be available as an export option. + !!!The following pref variables were added in 2.2: @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ * \print_to_printer * \print_to_file * \print_file_extension: - These were used for print support, which has been removed. + These were used for print support, which has been removed. !!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.2: @@ -76,21 +76,31 @@ * buffer-move-previous Moves the current tab one spot to the left. +* tabular-feature is reintroduced to allow more flexibility for user + commands, whereas "inset-modify tabular" is now reserved for the tabular + dialog. In particular, "inset-modify tabular" is no longer caught by math grid + insets. The name tabular-feature is kept to avoid renaming icons. For more + information, see #9794. !!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.2: +* word-upcase, word-lowcase and word-capitalize do not select the word + to operate on in the emacs way (that is, starting at cursor + position); this behaviour can be restored by using the argument + "partial". +* Functionality of "inset-modify tabular" has changed. See description of the + new LyX function "tabular-feature" above. !!!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 shortcuts for "bookmark-save x" have been changed from C-M-S-x to S-Fx ("x" stands for the number of the bookmark.) - !!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.2: @@ -101,22 +111,32 @@ !!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 4.8.6 or newer is advised. +* LyX 2.2.0 and the following 2.2.x releases will continue to work well with + Qt 4.5 (and later Qt 4.x) but will also support Qt 5.6, which brings some + advantages most notably for users with HiDPI displays. Note that if you + compile LyX with a Qt 5 release before 5.6 you are likely to run into + several regressions with respect to Qt 4.x. See #9215 for a list of bugs + related to compiling LyX with different versions of Qt. -* LyX now gives an error if the underlying LaTeX command exited with error. +* If compiling LyX on Windows with Qt 5.6, it is recommended to use MSVC 2015 + update 2 to avoid #9892. -* With LuaTeX, LyX now uses polyglossia instead of babel if the language - package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select - "Always babel" instead. +* LyX now gives an error if the underlying LaTeX command exited with error. !!Known issues in version 2.2.0 -* 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. +* LyX needs Python 2.7 at runtime. The python 2 interpreter needs to be named + either 'python' or 'python2'. + Building LyX usually works with Python 3 as well, but there might be cases + where it does not work properly on systems where Python 3 is the default + binary. See #7030 to know how to fix this properly, since simple shebang + conversion in *.py files will not be enough. + +* If using LyX with Qt 4, it is possible to suddenly get keyboard keys wrong, + and deadlock. To work around the issue, you can disable IBus for LyX by + starting LyX as 'XMODIFIERS= lyx'. For further discussion and alternative + workarounds, see #9362. !!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.2.x @@ -127,3 +147,26 @@ 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. +* Missing characters in the output are now reported as errors. This leads + to error reports for documents that compiled without error before. + However, the error was always present but went undetected! + +* Documents using Times fonts and containing Greek characters may now fail + to compile under pdflatex for users of MikTeX due to an automatically + half-installed "grtimes" package. A workaround in LyX was removed as it + stands in the way of alternative approaches (see #6469). + +* With LuaTeX, LyX now uses polyglossia instead of babel if the language + package option "Automatic" is selected. In order to use babel, select + "Always babel" instead. This may be needed if a document uses code that + is specific to babel. + +* As usual, when opening and saving a document that was created by a previous + major version of LyX (in this case 2.1.x), the file format is changed to + the new file format (in this case 2.2.x). What is different starting with + 2.2.0 is that when we save a file that was not originally in the current LyX + format, we create a backup of the original file. We put it in the backup + directory, if one exists, otherwise in the directory the original file is + in. This is the same strategy as for normal backups. This backup file can be + helpful in case a bug in lyx2lyx caused data loss. For more information, see + #9554.