X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FRELEASE-NOTES;h=f7f889df5210489dc33b7de3565dc9692b996cd9;hb=eac329875194ac8b005c50bc08207dda64045df2;hp=f0f25ea06516225c0f9057953a8511440db26ad9;hpb=2aaf185e7c7446879350a552132a942ec7e32c39;p=lyx.git diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES index f0f25ea065..f7f889df52 100644 --- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,189 +1,141 @@ -!Important Changes in LyX 2.3.0 +!Important Changes in LyX 2.4.0 !!Interface changes -* LyX now has "inverted" branch insets, which output their contents just in - case a given branch is not "activated". This makes inclusion of alternate - material in different versions easier. +* 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. -* When inserting a command or symbol in mathed, it is now automatically - wrapped in a real inset (either \text or \ensuremath) assuring the correct - mode, instead of being wrapped only in the output. The wrapping inset can - be safely dissolved, as it will be automatically inserted at export time - if needed, as usual. +* 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. -* LyX now outputs en- and em-dashes as -- and --- ligatures when exporting to - latex using TeX fonts, as done in version 2.1 and earlier. In version 2.2 - they were instead output as the macros \textendash and \textemdash, causing - changed output with old documents and bugs. The 2.2 behavior can be restored - by don't allowing using dash ligatures in Document->Settings->Fonts. - -* The following UI translations were dropped, because the lack of translation - maintenance: Russian, Danish, Greek, Serbian, Galician, Catalan, Romanian, - Dutch. !!Documents compilation process and images conversion -* The converters definition syntax (LYX_HOME/lyxrc*) now supports a - new option, 'needauth', to prevent completely automated execution of - the converter, unless LyX acquired explicit consent by the - user. This is a new security feature, useful for converters that are - capable of executing arbitrary code, such as R scripts (used with - sweave/knitr), embedded within LyX documents. The user needs to - explicitly grant per-document permission on the first need for using - the converter on each document, unless he/she checks the "Don't ask - again for this document" checkbox in the permission dialog. The new - behavior can be fine-tuned from two new options in the preferences - dialog (see their description below). These also allow for disabling - 'needauth' converters altogether, if desired (default behavior). +* 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". + +!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4: + -* LyX now supports insertion and automated conversion of Gnuplot scripts, - recognized by their typical extension ".gp" or ".gnuplot". These can - directly be inserted in a LyX document using the "Insert->Graphics..." - dialog, then selecting the Gnuplot script. LyX automatically adds a - proper "set terminal ..." and "set output ..." line to convert the - file to the needed output format (e.g., .eps, .pdf), depending on - whether the document is being previewed on screen or compiled as PDF - or other formats. Terminal options cannot be fine-tuned at the moment, - but that's a capability that may come soon, also according to the - received feedback from users. +!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4: -!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.3: -* \use_converter_needauth - when enabled, user is asked before calling any (possibly dangerous) - external converter with the 'needauth' option -* \use_converter_needauth_forbidden - when enabled, use of external converters with the 'needauth' option is - forbidden +!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4: -* \pygmentize_command - holds the name of the driver command used by the Pygments python module. +* \font_encoding + The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document + fonts and languages. -* \default_platex_view_format - Determine the default output format for Japanese documents that use the - pLaTeX backend [default: "pdf3" == "PDF (dvipdfm)"] +* \use_qimage + This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter. +* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage + There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore. -!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.3: +* \date_insert_format + The function date-insert has been removed and superseded by info-insert date. + The latter does not need a pref value anymore. -!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.3: +!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4: +* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph + surrounding the actual cursor position. -!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.3: +* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document + in the (personal) templates folder. -* buffer-zoom - Zooms the screen fonts to a given value or resets to the default zoom - when no argument is given. +* export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes. -* branch-invert - Toggles inversion status of branch inset. +* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style. -* lyx-activate - Activates the LyX window. Useful in combination with reverse search. -* devel-mode-toggle - Activate/deactivate the developer mode, which consists mainly in: - (1) more information shown in the status bar and (2) help file - opened in editable mode. This state used to be hardcoded at compile - time. +!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4: +* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group. -!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.3: +* info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs * -* quote-insert - The function now has a second and third optional argument to specify - the side (left, right, auto) and quotation mark style (english, swedish, - german, polish, french, danish). +* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion + ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion + context's language). -* inset-modify - This function now also applies to quote insets. It takes a three-character - string as an argument, referring (1.) to the style (e = ``english'', - s = ''swedish'', g = ,,german``, p = ,,polish'', f = <>, a = >>danish<<), - (2.) to the side (l = left, r = right) and (3.) to the quotation level - (s = single, d = double). So "eld" means "English left double quotation mark". - A dot in the string means: take the current value. So "inset-modify changetype e.." - will only change the style to English, while letting side and level as is, - "inset-modify changetype f.s" will change the style to French and the level to - single, leaving the side value. - This function is most useful when combined with inset-forall. E.g., - "inset-forall Quotes inset-modify changetype f.." - => change all quote insets to French style, maintaining current side and level - "inset-forall Quotes inset-modify changetype ..s" - => change all quote insets to single quotes, keeping style and level - "inset-forall Quotes inset-modify changetype g.s" - => change all quote insets to German single quotes, keeping left/right setting +!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4: -* word-delete-forward, word-delete-backward, char-delete-forward, - char-delete-backward - The pre-2.3 behavior of these functions is equivalent to the 2.3 behavior with - the "force" option appended. The new default behavior (without "force") is - to select big insets on the first call and delete them only on the second. - This new behavior is consistent with how delete works in LyX's math editor. +* date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date. -!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.3: + + +!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4: + +* As a result of a major restructuring of the templates and example + directories, almost all examples and templates files have been renamed and + moved to subfolders that reflect the layout category. + The files now have much more decriptive (and longer) names, and they use + URL encoding for specific special characters such as '(', ')' and '&'. + Notably also the file that opens for new users has been renamed (from + splash.lyx to Welcome.lyx). !!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory -* citeengines: Contains the *.citeengine files that determine the citation - formatting and features. +* 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. + + -* xtemplates: Contains the *.xtemplate files that define the external templates - (previously in the external_templates file). +!!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4: -!!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.3: -* external_templates. This files has been split into multiple *.xtemplate - files that are now shipped as content of the xtemplates directory. +!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4: -!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.3: +!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4: -!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.3: +* The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against + Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used. -* Inkscape SVG with separate LaTeX + PDF output is experimentally supported. -* Add some editor/viewer applications to (re)configure checks. +!!Known issues in version 2.4.0 -!!Known issues in version 2.3.0 +* See http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome -!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.3.x +!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x -* The external_templates file has been split into one file per template, - which are now located in lib/xtemplates/*.xtemplate. This makes it easier - to add new templates or modify existing ones. If you have modified - the external_templates file, you will have to move the modifications to - the respective *.xtemplate file manually. +* Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed, + for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead. -* If using TeX fonts and en- and em-dashes are output as font ligatures, - when exporting documents containing en- and em-dashes to the format of - LyX 2.0 or earlier, the following line has to be manually added to the - unicodesymbols file of that LyX version:
- 0x200b "\\hspace{0pt}" "" "" "" "" # ZERO WIDTH SPACE
- This avoids "uncodable character" issues if the document is actually - loaded by that LyX version. LyX 2.1 and later versions already have the - necessary definition in their unicodesymbols file. +!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0 -* If trying to compile documents using R scripts and sweave/knitr, LyX - 2.3.x would not allow for re-running the R scripts, unless the user: - 1) explicitly disables the "Forbid use of needauth converters" - option in the LyX preferences; - 2) provides explicit consent to the use of the converter on the first - compilation of the R-enhanced document. +* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between: + https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes -* LyX now gives a warning if a document mixes title and non-title layouts. - In some cases, this warning is harmless, but in other cases the document has - a serious problem even though the LaTeX command does not exit with error. For - example, create a document with a title layout, then a standard layout, and - then an author layout, and you will see in the PDF that the author is not - typeset as an author. +* 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.