X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=ccab1bc96ba26c438e405e7ed497229610866d07;hb=8319bdbbbe4515307ef95115ec6462f6533c52a2;hp=a5c13c44c3a65502291b741458ae3d92b549676d;hpb=b6cf47c635566799d169378fdb84c08bd2889a25;p=features.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index a5c13c44c3..ccab1bc96b 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -18,6 +18,25 @@ * 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 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. !!Documents compilation process and images conversion @@ -34,12 +53,12 @@ * 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 + +* 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. @@ -54,6 +73,11 @@ * \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). !!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: @@ -78,8 +102,6 @@ !!!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. @@ -88,6 +110,9 @@ * 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. @@ -101,6 +126,12 @@ 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. @@ -117,6 +148,11 @@ 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). + !!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4: @@ -143,7 +179,7 @@ * 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. @@ -153,6 +189,9 @@ !!!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: @@ -167,17 +206,26 @@ !!! 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. + 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 + - 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. + - 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 @@ -187,12 +235,21 @@ !!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). + 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.