1 What's new in version 1.6.4.2?
2 -------------------------------
4 The only change over release 1.6.4.1 is the disabling of the fork()
5 meachanism on the Mac, which caused regularly pseudo-crashes on the
6 new Mac OS X release (10.6 a.k.a. Snow Leopard). Note that the fix has
7 performance effects on the Mac while autosaving.
10 What's new in version 1.6.4.1?
11 -------------------------------
13 The only change over release 1.6.4 is the fix of a regression on the Mac,
14 which made some dialogs (such as Preferences and About LyX) unaccessible
15 via the menu. Other platforms than the Mac were not affected by the issue.
18 What's new in version 1.6.4?
19 -------------------------------
21 This is the fourth maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. This release
22 covers, amongst many minor improvements, fixes to some rather severe
25 * A workaround to a nasty problem in recent Qt versions (Qt 4.5.0 up to
26 4.5.2) that made LyX crash if the document included images that were
27 scaled to certain sizes in the work area.
28 * Fixes to problems that might result in the loss of data.
29 * Many other stability improvements, thanks to a new debugging script that
30 helped to reveal uncovered critical bugs.
31 * Further fixes to the LaTeX importer (tex2lyx) and the conversion of
32 older LyX documents (lyx2lyx).
35 What's new in version 1.6.3?
36 -------------------------------
38 This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual
39 improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:
41 * tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and
42 transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0.
43 This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation
44 * The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have
46 * LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for
47 fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these
48 improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is
49 compiled against Qt 4.5.
52 What's new in version 1.6.2?
53 -------------------------------
55 This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release
56 fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by
57 users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to
58 dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes,
59 file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the
60 performance of the application has been improved, and the release also
61 introduces some new features and user interface improvements.
64 What's new in version 1.6.1?
65 -------------------------------
67 This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and
68 as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major
69 problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new
73 What's new in version 1.6.0?
74 -------------------------------
76 The new features in LyX 1.6 are detailed in
77 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
80 What's new in version 1.5.7?
81 ----------------------------
83 This is the sixth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle and it is
84 expected to be the final release in this series, since a new series of
85 stable releases has just been introduced by our new major release,
86 LyX 1.6.0. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, the main feature of this
87 release is the ability to read files created by LyX 1.6.0 (this feature
88 requires python 2.3.4 or newer).
91 What's new in version 1.5.6?
92 ----------------------------
94 This is the fifth maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle that has been
95 started exactly one year ago. The aim of this release was to make LyX
96 even more robust and to solve some long-standing annoyances. Also,
97 further translation efforts have been made, and LyX now ships in 23
100 What's new in version 1.5.5?
101 ----------------------------
103 This release further improves the stability and usability of the
104 application. Besides this, it also introduces some new features. Most
105 notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has just
106 been released: the stability issues that occured in previous versions
107 of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
110 What's new in version 1.5.4?
111 ----------------------------
113 This is a maintenance release. Besides the usual stability
114 improvements and fixes, this release comes with major improvements in
115 the handling of Chinese, Korean and Japanese (CJK) languages and
116 scripts, and introduces some minor new features (such as a character
119 While this release continues the stable 1.5.x series, work on the next
120 major release, 1.6.0, is proceeding. A first alpha version of LyX
121 1.6.0 will be released later this week for those who like the bleeding
122 edge experience. Notwithstanding this, expect one or two more 1.5.x
123 versions to be released, of which the last one will be able to read
126 All users, especially CJK users, are encouraged to upgrade to this
127 version. Caveat: We were forced to switch from the LaTeX package
128 'floatflt' to 'wrapfig' for wrap figure floats due to a license
129 problem that limited the availability of the former package. In
130 general, this should improve your documents containing wrap figures,
131 however, it is possible that the look and positioning of the floats
132 changes due to the package change. If you have documents with wrap
133 floats, please make a backup before upgrading and check the output.
136 What's new in version 1.5.3?
137 ----------------------------
139 This is a maintenance release that further improves the stability and
140 the performance. Besides numerous crashes, the display problems that
141 slipped into 1.5.2 with the performance fixes (on the Mac and on
142 Windows) as well as problems entailed to the reworked document classes
143 were fixed. Furthermore, LyX 1.5.3 comes with speed improvements that
144 should pay off especially on the Mac and other UNIXes. Finally, this
145 version also provides some new features.
148 What's new in version 1.5.2?
149 ----------------------------
151 This is a maintenance release that focuses on improving the
152 stability. We have fixed numerous crashes, performance problems, and
153 other bugs. Furthermore, the documentation has been revised. It covers
154 all new features of the 1.5.x series now.
157 What's new in version 1.5.1?
158 ----------------------------
160 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.1. It includes a few
161 bug fixes and, more importantly, fixes a bug where files produced with
162 the Document>Compressed option on would be malformed on windows. It
163 was therefore decided to revert to the trusty 1.4.x code in this area
164 and release 1.5.1 sooner than anticipated.
166 All 1.5.0 users are urged to upgrade to 1.5.1.
169 What's new in version 1.5.0?
170 ----------------------------
172 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
173 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
174 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
178 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
179 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
180 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
181 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
182 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
183 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
184 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
185 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
186 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
187 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
190 * Integrated CJK support
192 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
193 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
194 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
196 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
197 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
198 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
199 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
203 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
204 have full user interface support.
206 * Multiple views of the same buffer
208 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
209 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
210 parts of it synchronously.
212 * Outliner and embedded TOC
214 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
215 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
216 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
217 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
221 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
222 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
223 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
224 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
225 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
226 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
230 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
231 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
234 * New Font Selection Interface
236 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
237 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
238 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
242 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
243 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
244 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
248 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
249 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
250 glossaries and fancy notations.
254 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
256 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
258 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
259 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
260 to the math toolbars.
261 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
262 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
266 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
267 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
268 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
269 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
270 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
271 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
272 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
273 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
276 * Change tracking enhancements
278 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
279 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
281 * Converter file cache
283 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
284 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
285 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
286 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
287 is enabled by default.
289 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
292 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
294 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
296 * Unified Windows installer
298 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
299 both installers are welcome.
303 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
304 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
305 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
307 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
308 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
310 * LaTeX-package support
312 LyX provides the following new document classes:
313 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
314 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
315 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
316 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
317 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
319 * Minor user interface improvements
321 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
323 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
324 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
325 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
327 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
329 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
330 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
331 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
332 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
333 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
334 even after the selection has been cleared.
336 * Limited support for local class and layout files
338 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
339 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
340 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
341 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
342 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
343 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
344 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
348 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
349 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
350 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
351 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
352 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
353 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
354 series has been to bring this speed back.
358 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
359 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
362 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
363 ------------------------------
365 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
366 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
369 What's new in version 1.4.5?
370 ----------------------------
372 This is expected to be the last release in the 1.4.x stable
373 branch. Besides the obligatory bug fixes, its main feature is the
374 ability to read files created by LyX 1.5.0 (this feature requires
375 python 2.3.4 or later).
378 What's new in version 1.4.4?
379 ----------------------------
381 This is of course a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:
383 *) Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
384 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
386 *) Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
387 allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.
389 *) Improved documentation.
391 *) Speed improvements, especially on windows.
394 What's new in version 1.4.3?
395 ----------------------------
397 This is a bug fix release that improves stability and MS Windows
398 support. Notable new features include:
400 *) The windows port does not need a MSys (unix-like tools)
401 installation anymore.
403 *) A new function inset-dissolve has been added to delete an text
404 inset and put its contents in the enclosing text; this can be
405 accessed (like in the math editor) by pressing Backspace at the start
406 of an inset, or Delete at the end.
408 *) Many crashes have been fixed, in particular for systems based on
412 What's new in version 1.4.2?
413 ----------------------------
415 This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and native OS support. Notable new features include:
417 *) LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
418 [Windows and Mac OS X only].
420 *) The windows installer has been completely rewritten.
422 *) A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
423 in the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will
424 be compressed on disk or not.
426 *) A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
427 format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
428 figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
431 What's new in version 1.4.1?
432 ----------------------------
434 This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In particular:
436 *) fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
437 documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.
439 *) fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
442 *) fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.
444 *) let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
446 *) Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows
447 installer. See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this
450 What's new in version 1.4.0?
451 ----------------------------
453 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
454 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
455 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
457 ** Improved user interface
459 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
460 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
461 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
462 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
463 classic UI) is still available, for now.
465 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
466 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
467 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
468 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
469 available: one for tables, and one for math.
471 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
472 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
477 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
478 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
479 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
482 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
484 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
485 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
486 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
487 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
491 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
492 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
493 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
494 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
500 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
501 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
502 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
504 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
505 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
506 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
508 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
510 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
511 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
516 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
517 the Insert>Note menu:
519 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
520 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
522 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
523 well, greyed-out text.
525 ** Better language and numbering on screen
527 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
529 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
530 the language of the document, which may be different from the
531 language of the menus;
532 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
533 document class specifications.
537 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
538 count of the document or of the current selection.
542 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
543 of errors popping up at compilation time.
545 ** Improved bibliography support
547 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
548 "before citation" field is supported;
549 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
550 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
552 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
553 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
554 index processor is invoked).
556 ** Improved microtypography support
558 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
560 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
561 between "e." and "g.");
562 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
563 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
564 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
565 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
566 much space between figure/table and caption.
570 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
572 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
575 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
576 edit the included figure
578 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
579 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
583 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
584 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
587 What's new in version 1.3.7?
588 ----------------------------
590 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
591 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
594 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
595 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
597 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
598 installer and in the handling of file names.
600 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
603 What's new in version 1.3.6?
604 ----------------------------
606 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
608 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
609 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
610 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
611 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
612 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
613 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
614 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
616 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
617 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
618 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
620 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
621 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
622 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
623 considered as part of words
627 What's new in version 1.3.5?
628 ----------------------------
630 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
631 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
632 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
633 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
634 case where the files are in different directories.
635 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
637 What's new in version 1.3.4?
638 ----------------------------
640 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
642 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
643 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
644 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
645 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
647 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
648 * The interface and documentation localization have
651 What's new in version 1.3.3?
652 ----------------------------
654 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
656 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
657 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
658 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
659 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
660 the user interface and documentation.
662 What's new in version 1.3.2?
663 ----------------------------
665 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
667 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
669 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
670 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
673 What's new in version 1.3.1?
674 ----------------------------
676 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
677 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
678 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
679 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
680 improvements) for good measure.
684 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
685 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
687 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
688 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
690 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
691 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
692 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
693 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
696 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
697 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
698 (documentation has been updated too)
700 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
701 spanish translation of menus
703 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
704 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
705 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
707 What's new in version 1.3.0?
708 ----------------------------
710 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
711 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
712 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
713 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
714 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
716 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
717 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
718 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
722 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
723 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
724 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
725 functionally equivalent.
727 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
728 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
729 symbols displayed properly.
733 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
734 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
735 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
740 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
741 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
742 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
743 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
744 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
745 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
746 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
747 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
748 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
749 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
753 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
754 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
755 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
756 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
757 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
758 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
759 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
760 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
761 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
762 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
763 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
764 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
765 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
766 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
767 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
769 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
770 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
772 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
773 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
774 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
775 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
776 the inset and press 'backspace'.
780 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
781 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
782 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
783 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
785 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
786 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
787 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
788 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
790 ** Miscellaneous changes
792 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
793 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
794 configure your font server).
796 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
797 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
800 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
801 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
804 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
805 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
806 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
810 What's new in version 1.2.3?
811 ----------------------------
813 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
814 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
815 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
816 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
820 - updated italian User Guide
822 - updated french localization
825 What's new in version 1.2.2?
826 ----------------------------
828 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
829 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
834 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
835 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
836 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
838 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
839 when dragging the mouse)
841 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
842 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
843 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
846 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
847 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
848 who are not aware that it is needed
850 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
851 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
853 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
854 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
856 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
858 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
860 - update sciword bindings
862 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
863 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
865 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
869 What's new in version 1.2.1?
870 ----------------------------
872 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
873 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
874 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
875 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
880 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
881 when this gets released)
883 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
884 the performance problems
886 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
888 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
889 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
890 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
892 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
895 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
896 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
897 help entering of ERT insets)
899 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
901 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
903 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
905 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
906 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
909 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
911 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
914 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
915 line and have this file created for you
917 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
918 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
921 What's new in version 1.2.0?
922 ----------------------------
924 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
925 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
926 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
927 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
928 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
931 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
932 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
935 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
936 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
939 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
940 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
941 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
943 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
946 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
947 appear in the output.
951 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
952 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
956 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
958 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
959 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
960 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
963 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
967 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
968 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
969 process, among which:
971 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
973 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
974 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
975 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
977 - support for many amsmath features
978 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
979 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
980 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
981 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
984 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
986 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
988 - Improvements to the parser
990 - Improvements to math text mode
992 - (Better) support for nested macros
994 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
996 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
998 - GUI support provided for many more features
1001 Other changes include:
1003 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
1006 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
1007 improved in the process
1009 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
1010 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
1011 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
1013 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
1016 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
1017 "shelfful", or many german words
1019 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
1020 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
1021 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
1022 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
1024 - Updated documentation
1026 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
1029 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
1031 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
1033 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
1035 - Babel can be disabled
1037 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
1039 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
1040 ------------------------------------
1042 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
1046 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
1048 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
1049 appears to be more suitable.
1051 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
1052 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
1054 - add support for dvipdfm
1056 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
1057 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
1059 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
1062 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
1064 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
1067 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
1069 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
1072 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
1073 ------------------------------------
1075 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
1079 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
1082 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
1083 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
1085 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
1088 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
1089 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
1091 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
1092 Theoretical Computer Science
1094 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
1096 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
1097 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
1099 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
1100 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
1101 with the older version
1104 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
1105 ------------------------------------
1107 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
1111 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
1113 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
1114 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
1115 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
1117 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
1118 documentation update.
1120 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
1123 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
1124 ------------------------------------
1126 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
1130 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
1131 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
1133 - better support for ukrainian language
1135 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
1136 working --with-lyx-suffix.
1138 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
1139 line-delete-forward.
1141 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
1143 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
1146 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
1147 --------------------------------
1149 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
1150 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
1151 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
1153 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
1154 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
1155 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
1156 from the older development version:
1158 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
1159 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
1160 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
1161 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
1162 have been overhauled.
1164 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
1167 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
1168 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
1170 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
1172 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
1173 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
1174 will give you an idea of what is happening.
1176 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
1178 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
1179 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
1180 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
1181 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
1182 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
1183 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
1184 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
1186 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
1187 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
1188 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
1191 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
1192 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
1193 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
1194 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
1195 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
1196 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
1198 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
1199 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
1200 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
1201 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
1202 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
1204 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
1206 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
1208 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
1209 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
1210 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
1211 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
1212 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
1213 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
1215 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
1217 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
1220 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
1221 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
1223 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
1224 mentioned here for your information
1226 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
1227 (this can be changed in preferences).
1229 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
1234 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
1235 --------------------------------
1237 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
1238 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
1239 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
1241 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
1242 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
1244 User-visible changes:
1246 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
1248 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
1250 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
1252 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
1254 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
1255 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
1257 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
1258 command-line/window:
1259 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
1261 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
1262 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
1264 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
1266 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
1268 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
1270 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
1271 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
1272 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
1273 (And you probably had the error always.)
1275 - Better definition for LyXList style.
1277 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
1278 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
1280 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
1282 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
1283 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
1284 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
1285 support is of course not supported in older versions.
1287 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
1289 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
1290 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
1292 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
1293 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
1295 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
1296 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
1297 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
1298 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
1301 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
1302 --------------------------------
1304 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
1305 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
1306 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
1309 In the user-visible department, we find:
1311 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
1312 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
1313 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
1314 the GUI pops up during the process...
1316 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
1318 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
1319 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
1321 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
1322 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
1323 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
1324 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
1326 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
1329 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
1330 --------------------------------
1332 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
1333 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
1335 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
1336 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
1337 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
1339 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
1340 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
1343 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
1346 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
1348 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
1349 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
1350 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
1351 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
1352 for the sake of correctness.
1354 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
1355 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
1357 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
1358 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
1360 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
1362 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
1364 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
1366 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
1367 --------------------------------
1369 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
1371 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
1372 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
1373 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
1375 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
1377 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
1379 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
1381 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
1382 has also been fixed.
1384 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
1385 --------------------------------
1387 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
1388 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
1389 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
1390 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
1391 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
1392 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
1394 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
1396 - New export to HTML feature
1398 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
1400 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
1401 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
1402 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
1404 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
1405 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
1406 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
1408 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
1409 --------------------------------------------------
1411 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
1412 new features has been included:
1418 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
1420 - Several language files updated.
1422 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
1424 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
1425 --------------------------------------------------
1427 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
1429 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
1432 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
1434 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
1436 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
1437 --------------------------------------------------
1439 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
1440 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1442 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
1444 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
1445 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
1447 - Better multipart document support.
1449 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
1452 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
1455 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
1456 --------------------------------------------------
1458 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
1459 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
1461 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
1463 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
1465 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
1467 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
1469 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
1473 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
1474 ----------------------------------------------------
1476 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
1477 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
1479 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
1480 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
1481 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
1482 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
1483 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
1485 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
1486 footnotes, and generally better output.
1488 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
1489 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
1490 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
1491 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
1492 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
1494 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
1495 and error message translations) for several languages.
1497 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
1498 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
1499 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
1501 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
1503 - Improved table support.
1505 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
1507 - easier handling of index entries.
1509 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
1510 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
1511 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
1512 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
1515 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
1516 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as