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What's new in version 2.0.0?
-------------------------------
The new features in LyX 2.0 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
* Advanced Search Facility
* Spell-checking on the Fly
* Compare Documents Feature
* XHTML Output
* Multilingual Thesaurus
* XeTeX Backend
* Multiple Indices Support
* Progress View and Debugging Pane
* Enhanced Instant Preview
* Forward Search for DVI/PDF Files
* Enhanced Version Control Features
* Typesetting in background
What's new in version 1.6.10?
------------------------------
The most notable new feature of this version is that it is able to read and
import documents of our new stable series, LyX 2.0.x. This is for the benefit
of users who want to stick with LyX 1.6.x for the time being, but still want
to cooperate with users of the new version. Note that LyX 1.6.10 still
writes the 1.6 format, so it cannot produce (but only interpret) LyX 2.0's
new features.
What's new in version 1.6.9?
-----------------------------
We have fixed yet another number of crashes that have been reported to us
and ironed out many small glitches. Also, some features and additions from
the forthcoming 2.x series, such as support for CVS revision control and a
new Swedish localization, have been backported to LyX 1.6.9.
What's new in version 1.6.8?
-----------------------------
LyX 1.6.8 is the result of our ongoing efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed crashes that have been
reported to us, ironed out many small glitches, further polished the user
interface, updated the documentation and added some new layouts.
What's new in version 1.6.7?
-----------------------------
From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
LyX as well.
What's new in version 1.6.6.1?
------------------------------
The sole purpose of this release is to fix one glitch that was introduced
by LyX 1.6.6: The spellchecker missed further misspellings after applying
a correction. This was due to the fix to different bug that had to be
reverted. In any other respect, this release is identical to Lyx 1.6.6.
What's new in version 1.6.6?
-----------------------------
The release features a long list of fixes and improvements. Yet a number
of crashes, reported by our users or our automatic stability testing
program, were fixed. Moreover, LyX was improved in many details. It also
introduces new features, such as support for the enchant spell checking
backend and for aspell language varieties (such as old and new German
spelling in parallel).
What's new in version 1.6.5?
-----------------------------
The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly
reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and
some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX
server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other
applications such as JabRef on this platform as well).
What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
-------------------------------
The upgrade fixes recurring pseudo-crashes when running LyX on
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
-------------------------------
The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
What's new in version 1.6.4?
-------------------------------
This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
issues, such as:
* A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
* Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
* Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
* Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
What's new in version 1.6.3?
-------------------------------
This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
* tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
* The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
been resolved.
* LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
compiled against Qt 4.5.
What's new in version 1.6.2?
-------------------------------
This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
What's new in version 1.6.1?
-------------------------------
This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
features.
What's new in version 1.6.0?
-------------------------------
The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
* Multiple Work Areas
* Split Views
* User-formattable Collapsable Insets
* Layout Modules
* Layout combobox changes
* Support for the LaTeX package hyperref
* Support for hyperlinks and URLs
* Improved floats
* New implementation of math macros
* Completion popup
* Inset Tooltip
* Context Menu
* Symbols dialog
* Shortcut Configuration dialog
* Paste Graphics from the Clipboard
* "Visual mode" for bidirectional cursor movement
* Fullscreen mode
* Extended Outliner
* Session management
* Subversion support
* Graphics parameters groups
* LyX functions manual
* Multi-LFUN Keybindings
What's new in version 1.5.7?
----------------------------
This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
What's new in version 1.5.6?
----------------------------
This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
languages.
What's new in version 1.5.5?
----------------------------
This release further improves the stability and usability of the
application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
What's new in version 1.5.4?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
count option).
While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
the 1.6 format.
All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
What's new in version 1.5.3?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
version also provides some new features.
What's new in version 1.5.2?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
What's new in version 1.5.1?
----------------------------
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
What's new in version 1.5.0?
----------------------------
As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
* Unicode
LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
mailing list.
* Integrated CJK support
The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
the user interface.
Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
* Language support
In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
have full user interface support.
* Multiple views of the same buffer
LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
parts of it synchronously.
* Outliner and embedded TOC
LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
* Session management
LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
* Source code Viewer
As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
document.
* New Font Selection Interface
LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
* Tabular extensions
LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
* Nomenclatures
LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
glossaries and fancy notations.
* Tabbed Widget
LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
* Enhanced Math Toolbars
The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
to the math toolbars.
Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
* Frontend News
LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
essentially stalled.
* Change tracking enhancements
Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
* Converter file cache
A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
is enabled by default.
The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
that with the line
\converter_cache_maxage xxx
where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
* Unified Windows installer
The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
both installers are welcome.
* Program listings
The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
* LaTeX-package support
LyX provides the following new document classes:
- article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
- presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
- curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
- curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
- curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
* Minor user interface improvements
Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
- Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
- Support for optional arguments for environments.
* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
(but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
even after the selection has been cleared.
* Limited support for local class and layout files
Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
should you use different directories for master and child documents.
* Under the hood
As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
series has been to bring this speed back.
** Bug fixes
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
------------------------------
The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
What's new in version 1.4.5?
----------------------------
This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
python 2.3.4 or later).
What's new in version 1.4.4?
----------------------------
This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
*) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
*) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
*) Improved documentation.
*) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
What's new in version 1.4.3?
----------------------------
This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
support. Notable new features include:
*) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
installation anymore.
*) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
of an inset, or Delete at the end.
*) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
gcc 4.1.
What's new in version 1.4.2?
----------------------------
This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
*) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
[Windows and Mac OS X only].
*) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
*) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
be compressed on disk or not.
*) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
What's new in version 1.4.1?
----------------------------
This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
*) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
*) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
LyX/Mac.
*) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
*) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
*) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
release.
What's new in version 1.4.0?
----------------------------
As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
** Improved user interface
LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
classic UI) is still available, for now.
It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
available: one for tables, and one for math.
Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
table.
** Change tracking
This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
changes.
** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
** Character styles
For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
styles.
** Branches
The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
** Minipages evolve to Boxes
In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
GUI
** Notes
LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
the Insert>Note menu:
- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
further.
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
well, greyed-out text.
** Better language and numbering on screen
Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
the language of the document, which may be different from the
language of the menus;
- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
document class specifications.
** Word count
Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
count of the document or of the current selection.
** Error Lists
Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
of errors popping up at compilation time.
** Improved bibliography support
- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
"before citation" field is supported;
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
and law fields;
- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
index processor is invoked).
** Improved microtypography support
LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
between "e." and "g.");
- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
much space between figure/table and caption.
** Small bits
- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
pdf generation
- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
edit the included figure
- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
has poor support for other than English index sorting.
** Bug fixes
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
What's new in version 1.3.7?
----------------------------
We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
noting:
- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
installer and in the handling of file names.
All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
What's new in version 1.3.6?
----------------------------
Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
* It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
as teTeX 3.0).
* It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
* LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
considered as part of words
What's new in version 1.3.5?
----------------------------
This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
* Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
case where the files are in different directories.
* It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
What's new in version 1.3.4?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
five main areas:
* It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
* Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
* New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
drag-and-drop);
* Mac OS X support is much improved;
* The interface and documentation localization have
been polished.
What's new in version 1.3.3?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
four main areas:
* import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
* MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
the user interface and documentation.
What's new in version 1.3.2?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
three main areas:
* the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
have been squashed;
* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
the user interface.
What's new in version 1.3.1?
----------------------------
LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
improvements) for good measure.
** Updates
- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
class kluwer
- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
(documentation has been updated too)
- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
spanish translation of menus
- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
** Qt frontend
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
functionally equivalent.
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
symbols displayed properly.
** Gnome frontend
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
developer's list.
** Instant preview
preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
** Math editor
There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
the inset and press 'backspace'.
** Reading old files
LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
** Miscellaneous changes
- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
configure your font server).
- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
tables of contents.
- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
removed in 1.2.0
- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
installed.
What's new in version 1.2.3?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
** Updates
- updated italian User Guide
- updated french localization
What's new in version 1.2.2?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1.2.1.
** Updates
- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
when dragging the mouse)
- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
found)
- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
who are not aware that it is needed
- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
- update sciword bindings
- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
the interface
What's new in version 1.2.1?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
recommended.
** Updates
- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
when this gets released)
- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
the performance problems
- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people