- it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
-- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a GNome frontend for
+- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
can give you an idea of what is happening.
Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
-- the table support has been completely rewritten. It uses the new
- text inset which will be use throughout LyX in version 1.2.0 and
- offers many new features: [Juergen??]
+- the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
+ object (inset) which owns for each cell a (also) newly written text
+ inset. This permits now to have automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
+ cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
+ layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
+ not least, wide tabulars now scroll automatically so that all of it
+ is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
+
+ While there are yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
+ easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
+ features may not work right now, but at least you can use this much
+ better than before.
- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
- DocBook improvements [José, details?]
And finally, there has been a lot of smaller changes, which are
-mentionned here for your information
+mentioned here for your information
- the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
(this can be changed in lyxrc).
- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
-height, etc.
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+
What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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