1 Public release of LyX version 1.5.5
2 ====================================
4 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.5. Being the fourth
5 maintenance release in the 1.5.x cycle, this release further improves
6 the stability and usability of the application. Besides this, it also
7 introduces some new features.
9 Most notably, LyX is now prepared to be compiled with Qt 4.4 that has
10 just been released: the stability issues that occured in previous
11 versions of LyX when compiled against Qt 4.4 have been resolved.
13 All users, especially users of Qt 4.4, are encouraged to upgrade to
16 A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
17 are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.
20 What's new in version 1.5.5?
21 ----------------------------
27 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
29 - New Spanish translation of the math manual.
31 - New French translation of the documentation file "Formula-numbering.lyx".
33 - Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, and
34 Romanian translation of the user interface.
36 - Updated German User's Guide and Extended manual.
38 - Updated French User's Guide.
40 - Updated Italian Intro manual.
45 - Add support for the bm package.
47 - New layout files "article (beamer)" and "article (koma + beamer)" that
48 support beamer's article mode.
50 - Allow using the \binom command without the amsmath package.
52 - Add support for \brace and \brack commands in mathed.
55 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
57 - New import option for comma-separated-value files.
59 - Add support for the HTML-to-LaTeX converters gnuhtml2latex and
60 htmltolatex (bug 4615).
62 - The commands \makeatletter and \makeatother are now only added to the
63 preamble when actually needed.
65 - The command \textcolor is now converted when importing LaTeX files
68 - Global line spacing settings are now imported when importing LaTeX
71 - The command \lyxline is now converted when importing LaTeX files
77 - A metafile (EMF/WMF) to EPS conversion tool is included.
78 This tool uses a virtual printer called "Metafile to EPS Converter".
80 - Full support for installation on a per-user basis, including limited
83 - Required files of ImageMagick and Ghostscript will be installed in the
89 - New configure option --enable-build-type allows to set all
90 compilation options for release, prerelease or development builds.
91 Please see the INSTALL file for more details.
97 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
99 - Fix LaTeX import of aligned consecutive paragraphs (bug 4806).
101 - Fix font size handling when importing LaTeX files (bug 4803 and
104 - After an inset, don't always revert to the language's default encoding
105 for latex output, but honor that specified in the document settings
108 - Close font macros (such as \emph) before comments, greyedout, framed
109 and shaded notes, thus fixing a problem where documents couldn't be
112 - Fix LaTeX error "unknown color 'ignore'" when setting text style
113 attributes in mathed (bug 4091).
115 - Assure amsthm is loaded if a theorem is defined with \theoremstyle.
117 - Fix LaTeX errors triggered by switching from ams article to ams plain
120 - Fix drawing of top and bottom rules in formal tables (bug 4554).
122 - Fix reversion of OHM and ANGSTROM characters to LyX < 1.5.0 (rest of
125 - Check for the LaTeX packages "nicefrac" and "units" that are used by
128 - Check for PDF->PS, PDF->EPS and PS->EPS converters and use them (bug
131 - Stop warning messages when a local layout file is opened. Fix bugs
132 caused by incorrect reloading of local layout files.
134 - Use verbose htlatex command instead of oolatex, if available, since the
135 latter caused problems on some systems (bug 4604).
137 - Use package amsbsy for bold math symbols obtained through the \boldsymbol
138 macro, such that bold super and subscripts have the correct size even
139 when not using the complete amsmath package.
141 - Fix loading of lyx documents generated with csv2lyx (bug 4639).
143 - Move \label{} outside of listings option caption={} because the listings
144 package prefers a separate label={} option.
146 - Set the correct encoding when an ASCII encoded LaTeX file is imported
149 - Parse the command \makebox correctly when importing LaTeX files
152 - Import global paragraph settings correctly when importing LaTeX files
155 - Use style guide-conforming headings in the APA layout (bug 4827).
160 - Fix a crash on startup with Qt 4.4 (bug 4568).
162 - Fix a crash that occured on some OSes when the character '{' was
163 inserted in the advanced input of the listings dialog (bug 4780).
165 - Fix an assertion with compressed image files that do not have a
168 - Fix an assertion with incorrect argument for '-sysdir' command-line
171 - Correctly apply font changes when several math matrix cells are selected
174 - Allow deleting a label in a formula as well as the numbering with the
175 delete key (bug 2556).
177 - Allow to enter starred math commands such as \tag* (bug 4584).
179 - Load amsmath when \tag or \tag* is used (bug 4586).
181 - Fix parameter input of the math commands \makebox and \framebox (bug
184 - When cutting a selection do not leave a dangling paragraph (bug 3995).
186 - Improve the behaviour when inserting a collapsable inset over a multi-
189 - Fix the automatic uncollapsing of outliner during updates (bug 3740).
191 - Correctly handle quotation marks in command preferences (bug 2016).
193 - Remove the menu entries to swap rows/columns as this feature is not
196 - Fix wrong focusing of buttons in search dialog (bug 4194).
198 - Disallow some Note variants in places where they would result in LaTeX
199 errors (part of bug 4180).
201 - Use *.* to select all files in the file selection dialog on Windows.
202 Using shortcuts for navigation is now possible.
204 - Fix \Vert symbol in the math panel (part of bug 4720).
206 - correct numbering inside multiline environments (bug 518).
208 - Fix typo in the script TeXFiles.py that scans for TeX files.
210 - Remove the menu entry Insert -> Math -> Toggle math panels, since
211 it actually does not insert anything and its functionality is covered
212 by menu View - > Toolbars -> Math Panels (bug 4765).
217 - Fix LaTeX errors in the Spanish Tutorial, UserGuide, and Intro manual.
220 - correct shortcuts for math fonts in section 11.1
221 - fix the description of the command \tag in section 19.4
223 - Man page: document -geometry option, update Copyright date (bug 4740).
225 - The tex2lyx man page was completely outdated and referred to reLyX in many
226 places (bug 2770). It has been cleaned up, but it is still outdated in
230 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
232 - fix the 'make check' target in src/support; one of the checks still
235 - fix the problems with compilation on gcc 4.3.0 with disabled pch headers.
237 - fix some compilation warnings.
241 What's new in version 1.5.4?
242 ----------------------------
247 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
249 - New manual "LyX's detailed math manual" available in English, French,
250 and German. It includes the content of the example file "mathed.lyx",
251 which is no more shipped separately.
253 - New section "Floats Side by Side" in the EmbeddedObjects manual.
255 - New Spanish translation of the FAQ manual and the mathed example file.
257 - New Japanese splash LyX file.
259 - Updated French and Spanish Introduction manual.
261 - Updated German, French, and Spanish Tutorial manual.
263 - Updated German User's Guide manual.
265 - New Russian translation of the user interface.
267 - Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
268 and Spanish translations of the user interface.
270 - New example files that demonstrate how to create serial letters with
271 the KOMA letter class.
276 - LyX gives more instructive information if a character cannot be encoded
277 properly. Most notably, the offending character is highlighted both in
278 the work area and in the "View Source" pane (bug 3511).
280 - Initial support for shift + right-mouse-click selection (bug 2304).
282 - The on-screen appearance of spaces has been improved.
284 - New shortcut "C-M-n" to create numbered formulas.
286 - Character counting added to "Count Words" function (bug 2819).
288 - The BibTeX dialog now has buttons to move databases up or down
291 - New toolbar button to create boxes.
293 - Keyboard shortcuts for TOC window buttons were introduced. For outlining
294 you can use "M-p Left/Right/Up/Down" keys. Note that depth-in/decrement
295 LFUNs are still reachable via "M-S-Left/Right" shortcuts (bug 4456).
297 - Improve cursor movement around lines with ending line-breaks.
300 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
302 - Use package wrapfig instead of floatflt for wrap figure floats. Note
303 that this might slightly change the output (cf. the file RELEASE-NOTES).
305 - Support to paste text containing ligatures to LyX.
308 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
310 - The Windows version is compiled with MSVC 2008.
311 It is no longer necessary to install the Windows SDK and other patches,
312 these things are now also included in the Express edition.
314 - Viewers wrapper xdg-open was removed due to the problems on environments
315 without desktop managers. Waiting for upstream fixes.
321 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
323 - Fix LaTeX output of documents with both CJK and non-CJK languages.
324 LyX is basically ready for multilingual CJK now (bug 4337).
326 - Fix internal conversion from ucs4 to cp-1255 (LyX didn't recognize
327 the Hebrew character tav [0x5EA] as a valid character in cp-1255)
330 - Fix import of LaTeX files that use the inputenc option "utf8x" (part
333 - Rotated floats are now correctly converted to ERT when exporting to LyX
336 - Fix the LaTeX output of boxes (bug 2492).
338 - Assure that the package "pdfcolmk" is loaded after the package color.
340 - Consider graphic drivers when loading the package "xcolor".
342 - Fix LaTeX code for line spacing when using the memoir class.
344 - Perform additional latex run if package clefval is used.
346 - The "dvi viewer paper options" switch now supports all known
347 paper sizes (bug 4432).
349 - "letter" is no more hardcoded as default dvips paper size
355 - Fix crashes after LyX tried to access files on non-existing or unmounted
356 drives (bugs 4052, 4440, 4534).
358 - Fix a crash when changing the document encoding while View->Source
361 - Fix an assertion when inserting a non-CJK character in a CJK paragraph
364 - Fix a crash when opening a document with relative path (bug 4517).
366 - Fix a crash after converting a formula to eqnarray while a selection
367 was active (bug 4452).
369 - Fix an assertion when inserting a box in a list while at least one
370 paragraph of that list was selected (bug 4502).
372 - Fix a crash when opening a file that resides in a hidden directory
375 - Fix a crash when deleting outlined insets while the outline panel
378 - Fix a crash following the input of an invalid paragraph separation
379 value in the document settings dialog (bug 4556).
381 - Fix a crash when inserting a math formula into a character style
382 inset. In order to fix this, the status bar information that was
383 displayed when hovering over a char style had to be disabled for
384 the time being (bug 4559).
386 - Fix a crash when pressing "page up" while the cursor is in an empty
387 paragraph (bug 4570).
389 - Do not exit after catching an iconv exception (bug 4385, part 2).
391 - Fix update/drawing of character style insets.
393 - Keep unapplied content of the document settings dialog after
394 clicking in the main window (bug 4302).
396 - Select the correct list in the outliner when right-clicking on the
397 TOC- or a "List-of-"inset (bug 4260).
399 - Fix access to network drives on Windows.
401 - "Accept compound words" in Preferences->Spellchecker now also works
402 with aspell (library) (bug 4408).
404 - Overwrite selected text when inserting from the math panel (bug 4055,
407 - Fix copying of insets to external clipboard and display of insets
408 in the navigaton menu (bug 4472).
410 - Fix pasting of multiple tabular cells on Mac and Windows (bug 4436).
412 - Fix the function "mark-on" (bug 2913).
414 - Fix rows alignment in the gather environment (part of bug 1497).
416 - Add missing pdflatex format to Export->Custom.
418 - Add a check box to the formula numbering menu entries and disable
421 - Avoid multiple warning messages from menu system at start-up.
423 - Avoid spurious warning messages about translation of "Plain text" at
426 - Add unicode support for missing space modifier letters.
428 - Add unicode support for many IPA characters.
430 - The case-changing functions do not select text anymore.
432 - Set correct width for labels in document class "letter (KOMA-Script
435 - Fix section counter problem in Portuguese localization (bug 4563).
437 - Load the amsmath package when \implies is used (bug 4561).
442 - Document in the User's Guide how to dissolve insets (bug 3687).
444 - Fix the bibliography of the French User's Guide.
446 - Fix a document preamble font entry that prevented the User's Guide
447 from beeing exported to PDF in some cases.
449 - Fix preamble error in the template file "koma-letter2.lyx".
452 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
454 - Small cleanup to the INSTALL file.
456 - New script postats.py used to generate translation statistics for the
459 - Dutch dictionary now downloads.
461 - Fix compilation with gcc 4.3 (soon to be released).
464 What's new in version 1.5.3?
465 ----------------------------
470 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
472 - Updated Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
473 Norwegian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese translations of the user
476 - New Spanish translation of the example file "ItemizeBullets.lyx".
478 - New French translation of the EmbeddedObjects manual.
480 - Updated French introduction manual and User's Guide.
487 - The way collapsable insets (footnotes, comments etc) are widened has
488 seen a complete overhaul in order to speedup painting when typing
489 within insets. Now these insets take the whole screen width as soon
490 as they contain more than one row of text. Users of Mac/PPC and of
491 Unices with slow X11 server should feel a significant boost in
492 performance thanks to this change.
494 - The pixmap cache that was introduced in LyX 1.5.2 to improve performance
495 can now be switched on and off in Preferences, since it might decrease
496 on-screen display quality of fonts (subpixel hinting). By default, the
497 cache is disabled. If you experience performance problems, turn in on
498 (Mac and Windows only).
500 - The behaviour of Return and M-Return has changed: they now allow to either
501 keep current paragraph and depth or to nesting paragraph (bug 2445).
503 - Add the esint font to the private math fonts. This font assures a
504 consistent on screen looking for all kinds of supported integral signs.
506 - The slides/foils of presentation classes such as beamer, powerdot, foils
507 and slides are now displayed in the outliner. This makes it easy to navigate
508 to specific slides or move them up and down (bug 78).
510 - It is now possible to enter greek and cyrillic characters and have them
511 typeset without switching to the proper language.
513 - Add native Erlang support for listings (bug 4263).
515 - The on-screen representation of charstyle insets has been polished:
516 they now integrate better in the line. Furthermore, their label is
517 not displayed anymore by default (it can be toggled globally by
518 "View->Open all Insets" and individually by clicking the right mouse
519 button). As a new type of information, the type of a charstyle inset
520 is now displayed in the status bar when the mouse hovers over it.
522 - Inset-dissolve now works in mathed.
524 - Placeholders have been moved from the miscellaneous to the spacings section
528 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
530 - tex2lyx now imports the following LaTeX commands and environments:
532 - environments "framed" and "shaded" from package framed.sty (i.e. framed
533 and shaded notes in LyX)
534 - \selectlanguage, \foreignlanguage, and \inputencoding (bug 27).
535 - all font settings that are natively supported by LyX.
536 - all quotation marks (bug 2703).
538 - xdg-open and sensible-editor are now detected as possible viewer (wrappers).
544 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
546 - Fix a crash when exporting a file with a branch from the command line
549 - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.5.0) that
550 contains index entries with escaped umlauts (bug 4333).
552 - Fix a crash when importing an older LyX file (version < 1.1.6) that used
553 the "default" language.
555 - Exit gracefully and give the user some information if LyX catches an
556 exception from an external program, such as iconv (part of bug 4385).
558 - Fix LaTeX output of AMS classes when using layouts like Definition but
559 not using also Theorem (bug 4282).
561 - Remove obsolete LaTeX preamble code that was set when a document contained
564 - If there exists a local layout file, use the local copy instead of the
567 - Use package "float" when the default placement for floats is set to
570 - Fix import of bounding box arguments "natheight", "natwidth", "bbllx",
571 "bblly", "bburx" and "bbury" (bug 4418).
576 - Fix a crash when using bookmarks in insets (bug 4301).
578 - Fix a crash when some files or directories are not readable.
580 - Fix a crash when pasting into a math formula (bug 4318).
582 - Fix a crash when deleting a row or column of a math matrix while its
583 content is selected (bug 4323).
585 - Fix a crash when inserting a label after a math matrix (bug 4334).
587 - Fix a crash when overwriting a selection that spans multiple paragraphs
590 - Fix a crash when using the outline-* lfuns within mathed (bug 4330).
592 - Fix an assertion when entering a math object in a list environment (bug 4335).
594 - Fix a crash when the cursor leaves the first paragraph of the
595 appendix and it is empty (bug 4352).
597 - Fix a crash when editing in an inset that contains an horizontal spring
600 - Fix a crash when pasting text from the clipboard into a multi-line
601 tabular cell (bug 4368).
603 - Fix a crash when inserting a file in a tabular cell via
604 Insert->File->Plain Text...
606 - Fix a crash when using the regex search of the citation dialog (bug 4421).
608 - Correctly adjust screen fonts after the zoom or dpi settings were changed in
609 the preferences (Mac and Windows only) (bug 4268).
611 - Fix updating of externally modified files on Windows both in the workarea and
612 in the output (bug 3172).
614 - Fix loading of the CJK package in multilingual documents (part of bug 4337).
616 - Fix a problem on Windows where invalid names were given to backup files
619 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker didn't update the screen display on the last
620 of several misspelled words (bug 3586).
622 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker skipped the first misspelled word on a second
625 - If the text of footnotes is in a different language than the main text, it
626 was not aligned correctly. This is fixed.
628 - Fix cut and paste of tabular cells via the external clipboard (bug 4147).
630 - Fix undo in tabulars after pasting via the external clipboard (bug 4371).
632 - Fix undo in tabulars after inserting a file via Insert->File->Plain Text...
634 - Fix middle-mouse paste from other apps into LyX (bug 4394).
636 - Repair wasy font such that it can also be used on Mac (bug 2326).
638 - Fix color of some math symbols (bug 2330).
640 - Fix math display problem with binoms (bug 4308).
642 - Fix problem in conversion of equations to eqnarray (when pressing C-Enter).
644 - Fix a bug when adding a math formula column.
646 - Check and show proper error message if configure.py fails (part of bug 2829).
648 - Fix DraftDVI preference settings (Windows only).
650 - Fix bug where strings containing [[double brackets]] appear in user
653 - Fix several duplicated keyboard accelerators in the paragraph settings dialog
656 - Do not close the error dialog on double click (bug 4090).
658 - Really highlight search text in the find and replace dialog (bug 3999).
660 - Fix bug that files with non-ascii names are reported as externally modified
663 - Disallow paragraph breaks in optional arguments (aka short title) (bug 4359).
665 - Fix calculation of row metrics with multibyte characters.
667 - Allow to set optional arguments to Theorem like environments (bug 4344).
669 - Make sure that the Chapter* layout appears in outline and naviagtion menu
672 - Fix problem after cancelling the Insert Plain Text dialog.
674 - Distinguish translations for 'Note' between layouts and inset.
676 - Fix highlighting of comments in the LaTeX source view.
678 - Improve shortcut behaviour in the Print dialog (bug 4345).
680 - Fix on-screen numbering of mwrep and mwbk classes (bug 4419).
685 - Fix corrupted character in the User's Guide (including the translations).
687 - Remove the example file "currency.lyx" and its German translation
688 "Waehrungen.lyx". The file is obsolete, since LyX allows direct insertion
689 of currency symbols as of version 1.5.0.
691 - Remove the German example file "TabellenBeispiel.lyx" and its French
692 version "ExemplesTableaux.lyx". The files have been obsoleted by the
693 EmbeddedObjects documentation.
695 - Remove wrong description of math space handling from the German tutorial
698 - Document that the list of recently edited files is lost when
699 upgrading from LyX 1.4.x.
701 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
703 - Fix installation of the Spanish User's Guide when building with scons.
705 - Fix configure.py such that all possible extensions for executables are
706 taken into account when searching for programs (Windows only).
708 - Make sure that all the files created when compiling are removed by
711 - Fix build problem on MacOS 10.5.1.
714 What's new in version 1.5.2?
715 ----------------------------
720 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
722 - The LyX User Guide has been revised completely. It is now up to
723 date and describes all of LyX 1.5's main features (bug 3315 a.o.)
724 For a detailed changelog, see
725 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Status
727 - The LyX User Guide has been translated into Spanish.
729 - The Embedded Objects manual contains two new sections:
730 * longtable alignment.
731 * scaled and rotated material.
733 - Many improvements to the translation of the user interface on the Mac.
734 In particular, LyX automatically uses the language of the interface for
735 all of its menus and for the help files. Documents strings like
736 "Chapter" are correctly translated on screen too.
738 - New translations of the user interface into Finnish, Portuguese and
741 - Updated Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian,
742 Japanese, Portuguese and Romanian translations of the user interface.
746 - Add a pixmap cache to speed up text drawing on screen. This cache is
747 enabled on Mac and Windows platforms using Qt 4.2 or higher.
749 - Add a "Save all" menu entry, to save all modified files (bug 2840).
751 - Mark modified files in the View menu with an asterisk (bug 2876).
753 - Add a paragraph-params LFUN, used for updating paragraph parameters
756 - Add a "Save all on log-out or cancel" feature (bug 1656).
758 - Improved on screen rendering of some toolbar images.
760 - The dialogs of "editable" insets (such as index entries, URLs or
761 citations) are now opened by the "next-inset-toggle" LFUN (bug
764 - The screen label of index insets now displays their content.
766 - Floats comes now with fixed width on screen (bug 4002).
768 - A "Title (Plain Frame)" style has been added to the beamer layout.
769 This allows for setting a title frame without head-/footlines and
770 navigation bars (bug 3133).
772 - The AMS document classes have undergone a major rewrite. Several
773 bugs were fixed and some new styles were added (bugs 4087, 4223).
774 Cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/AMS for a detailed list of changes.
776 - New LyX functions, master-buffer-view and master-buffer-update, have
777 been added, to view the master buffer associated with a given child
778 buffer. These are bound by default to C-M-t and C-M-d, for Postscript
779 and DVI, respectively, for view, and to C-M-S-t and C-M-S-d, for update.
781 - The debug output obtained with the '-dbg painting' option has been
782 modified to be more verbose and in line with the LyX development
788 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
790 - Reconfiguration failure will no longer result in empty textclass lists.
791 Lyx now starts and asks for reconfigure if no textclass is found (bug 2829).
793 - Check if the .lyx file has been externally modified when a buffer is saved.
795 - Fix conversion from older documents if koi8 is used as the document
798 - Handle array column specifiers @{decl.}, p{width} and the extensions by
799 array.sty in mathed (bug 4132).
801 - Detect (pdf)tex's file:line:error style messages that are used by some
802 distributions and that caused LyX to ignore LaTeX errors (bug 4222).
804 - Fix LaTeX error with captions in Program Listings (bug 4182).
808 - Fix a crash when closing a LyX window with document tabs (bug 4123).
810 - Fix a crash when clicking in a tabular cell and the "delete empty paragraph"
811 mechanism triggers (bug 4133).
813 - Fix a crash when using the LFUN 'buffer-write-as' with an argument
814 that is not an absolute path (bug 4135).
816 - Fix a crash when a user removes the underlying figure of a graphic inset
817 that has been copied and pasted (bug 4108).
819 - Fix a crash when inserting a float.
821 - Fix a crash on quitting if graphics were selected (bug 4178).
823 - Fix a crash when a user removes a formula when its preview is being
824 generated (gcc 3 only).
826 - Fix a crash when using the down arrow in an empty math subscript (bug 4117).
828 - Fix a crash when logging out from within the Gnome desktop (bug 1656).
830 - Fix a crash when exporting a file with graphics to LaTeX on Windows
833 - Fix a crash when a counter was ill-defined in a layout file (bug 4232).
835 - Fix a crash with View>PDF on the Mac. This occurred only when LyX was
836 compiled with gcc's stdlib-debug option (bug 4014).
838 - Fix performance problem related to Clipboard and Selection on X11
839 platforms (bug 4045).
841 - Only update the toolbars that are actually visible. This improves LyX's
842 performance on editing.
844 - Further improve performance on editing by reducing the update calls of the
845 math panel toolbar to the bare essentials.
847 - Fix the loading of non-LyX child documents with relative path names. Change
848 'Load' to 'Edit' in the child document dialog (bugs 4107 and 4111).
850 - Allow roman numerals beyond 20 (bug 4112).
852 - Render malformed tables correctly (bug 580).
854 - Enable File>Revert when the file is externally modified, and rename
855 this menu item to "File>Revert to saved" (bugs 3766 and 4114).
857 - Update the screen when leaving a 'wide' inset using the up- and down-arrows.
859 - Fix a problem where the Delete button in the citation dialog was erroneously
862 - Reset the current cursor font when going to a bookmark.
864 - Fix an icorrect handling of spaces in change tracking mode (bug 3961).
866 - Fix a failure to close the window when a modified document is saved
869 - Highlight search text in the find dialog (bug 3999).
871 - Fix the deletion of paragraphs with leading spaces (bug 3600).
873 - Fix the loss of start-of-appendix information when creating/deleting an
874 empty paragraph (bug 4212).
876 - "Revert" and "Save As" are no longer treated as external modifications
877 of the document (bug 4193).
879 - Fix a bug where the "longest label" widget in the paragraph dialog was
880 disabled after its content was deleted (bug 4127).
882 - Fix a bug where the cursor was largely off-screen on document opening
885 - Fix a bug where fixed width insets were not honoured correctly (bug 4029).
887 - Fix a bug where the current document was closed unexpectedly when
888 typing a space after switching between 2 documents with the file->Open
891 - Fix bug in box dialog where the inner box was empty when switching
892 the box decoration (bug 4233).
897 - Fix installation links for Hebrew (bug 4165).
899 - Correct the description of list of algorithms in the Embedded Objects manual.
901 - Fix the appearance of the word "LyX" in PDF-bookmarks in the
902 Introduction manual (bug 2435).
904 - removed description of the program "reLyX" that was replaced in LyX 1.4 by
908 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
910 - Upgrade to boost 1.34.1.
912 - Upgrade to gettext 0.14.6.
914 - On all supported platforms, allow Qt 4.2 or higher to use the math fonts in
915 <sysdir>/fonts without the need to install them.
917 - Make configure.py remove a log file generated by MikTeX and copy the file
918 chkconfig.ltx to the user dir using default permissions (thus avoiding a
919 bug on Cygwin where python doesn't copy ACLs associated with a file).
921 - Clarify an error message for --without-included-boost.
923 - Better alignment of the version info output.
925 - Remove the /TP (force to use C++ compiler) option from scons/msvc.
927 - Allow the use of a snapshot version of scons.
929 - Fix usage display for lib/doc_toc.py (bug 3798).
932 What's new in version 1.5.1?
933 ----------------------------
938 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
940 - Add template for the APA class (bug 2390).
946 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
948 - Fix output of LyX files on windows when Document>Compressed is set.
949 This is a dataloss bug that was the main reason for releasing 1.5.1
950 earlier than anticipated.
952 - Get rid of annoying LaTeX error after changing the document language
955 - Fix a LaTeX error with caption inset in a listing inset (some
958 - Fix crashes relating to command line export (bugs 4077 and 4086).
960 - Fix export to FAT32 under Linux (bug 4094).
964 - Fix crash with TOC and child documents (bug 4096).
966 - Fix redrawing artefacts when switching tabs (bug 3969).
968 - Fix pasting a selection from the same LyX document with middle mouse
971 - Fix pasting of a selection from other applications (X11 only).
973 - Coherent behaviour when inserting over a selection: now the selection
974 is always replaced by the insertion (bug 672).
976 - When inserting an URL over selected text, insert the selected
977 text in the URL inset (bug 683).
979 - Don't allow invalid listings parameters to be passed when
980 updating other controls in listings-related dialogs (bug 4053).
982 - Fix bug with math-matrix dialog always producing 1x1 matrices on
983 platforms lacking proper support for wide characters (bug 4076).
985 - Sort colors in the Preferences dialog (bug 2571).
987 - Fix bug where using pdfsync marks the document 'changed' (bug 4023).
990 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
992 - scons now accepts SConstruct file from top source directory, which
993 can be a symbolic link to development/scons/SConstruct.
995 - LyX configuration script now checks for htlatex as an OpenDocument
996 converter, since some platforms have htlatex but not oolatex. It also
997 checks for oowriter as an OpenDocument viewer and editor.
999 - Fix building on Mac OS X when pkg-config is installed.
1002 What's new in version 1.5.0?
1003 ----------------------------
1005 As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
1006 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
1007 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
1011 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
1012 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
1013 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
1014 encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
1015 encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
1016 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
1017 areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
1018 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
1019 bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
1020 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
1023 * Integrated CJK support
1025 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
1026 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
1027 The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
1029 Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
1030 using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
1031 Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
1032 or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
1036 In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
1037 have full user interface support.
1039 * Multiple views of the same buffer
1041 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
1042 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
1043 parts of it synchronously.
1045 * Outliner and embedded TOC
1047 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
1048 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
1049 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1050 1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
1052 * Session management
1054 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
1055 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
1056 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
1057 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
1058 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
1059 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
1061 * Source code Viewer
1063 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
1064 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
1067 * New Font Selection Interface
1069 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
1070 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
1071 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
1073 * Tabular extensions
1075 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
1076 LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
1077 providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
1081 LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
1082 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
1083 glossaries and fancy notations.
1087 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
1089 * Enhanced Math Toolbars
1091 The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
1092 added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
1093 to the math toolbars.
1094 Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
1095 panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
1099 LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
1100 Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
1101 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
1102 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
1103 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
1104 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
1105 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
1106 frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
1107 essentially stalled.
1109 * Change tracking enhancements
1111 Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
1112 several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
1114 * Converter file cache
1116 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
1117 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
1118 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
1119 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
1120 is enabled by default.
1122 The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
1125 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
1127 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
1129 * Unified Windows installer
1131 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
1132 both installers are welcome.
1136 The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
1137 of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
1138 does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
1140 Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
1141 supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
1143 * LaTeX-package support
1145 LyX provides the following new document classes:
1146 - article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
1147 - presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
1148 - curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
1149 - curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
1150 - curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
1152 * Minor user interface improvements
1154 Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
1156 - Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
1157 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
1158 - Support for optional arguments for environments.
1160 * Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
1162 The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
1163 Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
1164 to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
1165 (but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
1166 you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
1167 even after the selection has been cleared.
1169 * Limited support for local class and layout files
1171 Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
1172 stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
1173 your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
1174 can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
1175 .cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
1176 .layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
1177 should you use different directories for master and child documents.
1181 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
1182 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
1183 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
1184 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
1185 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1186 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
1187 series has been to bring this speed back.
1191 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
1192 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
1195 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
1196 ----------------------------
1198 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
1199 We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
1200 any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
1201 in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
1203 Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
1204 and polished the graphical interface.
1206 What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
1207 ----------------------------
1209 The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
1210 no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
1211 exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
1212 since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
1214 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
1215 ----------------------------
1217 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
1218 and added some improvements:
1220 * A new inset to support code listings.
1221 * We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
1222 * The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
1224 Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
1225 done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
1227 Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
1228 this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
1231 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
1232 ----------------------------
1234 Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
1235 added some graphical improvements:
1236 * A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
1237 * The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
1238 * The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
1240 Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
1241 the user interface have been made, such as:
1243 - Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
1244 - Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
1245 - Support optional argument for environments
1247 What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
1248 ----------------------------
1252 LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
1253 of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
1254 languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
1255 encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
1256 encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
1257 Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
1258 areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
1259 the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
1260 bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
1261 to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
1264 * Integrated CJK support
1266 The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
1267 merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
1269 * Multiple views of the same buffer
1271 LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
1272 now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
1273 parts of it synchronously.
1277 LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
1278 you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
1279 dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
1282 * Session management
1284 LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
1285 reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
1286 selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
1287 cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
1288 can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
1289 the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
1291 * Source code Viewer
1293 As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
1294 you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
1297 * New Font Selection Interface
1299 LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
1300 outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
1301 provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
1303 * Tabular extensions
1305 LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
1306 LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
1307 provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
1312 Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
1313 you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
1314 glossaries and fancy notations.
1318 LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
1322 LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
1323 Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
1324 longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
1325 Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
1326 was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
1327 in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
1328 unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
1329 has been transferred to a branch because its development has
1330 essentially stalled.
1332 * Change tracking enhancements
1334 Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
1335 several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
1337 * Converter file cache
1339 A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
1340 implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
1341 displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
1342 to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
1343 is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
1344 you want to use it, add the line
1345 \use_converter_cache true
1347 to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
1348 6 months. You can change that with the line
1349 \converter_cache_maxage xxx
1351 where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
1353 * Unified Windows installer
1355 The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
1356 both installers are welcome.
1360 As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
1361 core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
1362 easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
1363 application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
1364 code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
1365 1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
1366 series has been to bring this speed back.
1369 What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
1370 ------------------------------
1372 The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
1373 of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files.
1376 What's new in version 1.4.5?
1377 ----------------------------
1382 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
1384 - Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
1390 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1392 - Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
1394 - Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
1395 settings (bug 3416).
1397 - Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
1399 - Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
1402 - Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
1406 - Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
1407 last paragraph (bug 3303).
1409 - Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
1410 math insets (bug 3358).
1412 - Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
1414 - Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
1416 - Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
1418 - Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
1420 - Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
1423 - Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
1425 - Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
1426 Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
1428 - Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
1430 - Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
1433 - Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
1436 - Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
1438 - Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
1440 - Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
1442 - Fix undo for special characters.
1444 - Fix gui for big delimiters.
1446 - Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
1447 delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
1449 - Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
1451 - Fix example for docbook-article.
1453 - Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
1455 - Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
1460 - Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
1463 - Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
1465 - Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
1467 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
1469 - Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
1471 - Allow automake 1.10 for building.
1473 - Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
1474 2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
1475 2.3.x python releases).
1478 What's new in version 1.4.4?
1479 ----------------------------
1484 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1486 - Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
1488 - Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
1490 - Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
1491 (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
1492 that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
1493 if you want to use this feature.
1495 - Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
1497 - Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
1498 presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
1499 by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
1500 Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
1501 file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
1503 - New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
1507 - Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
1508 documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
1510 - Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
1511 allowing to select what toolbars are active.
1513 - The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
1514 layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
1517 - Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
1519 - Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
1520 characters on a qwerty keyboard).
1522 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
1524 - A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
1525 in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
1526 floats, notes, and boxes.
1528 - Updated Intro and Extended manual.
1530 - New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
1531 Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
1533 - New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
1534 Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
1535 (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
1541 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
1543 - Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
1544 they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
1545 Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
1547 - Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
1550 - Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
1552 - Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
1554 - Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
1557 - The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
1560 - Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
1562 - Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
1565 - Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
1566 with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
1567 very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
1569 - Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
1571 - Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
1573 - Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
1576 - Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
1578 - Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
1581 - Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
1583 - Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
1585 - Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
1587 - Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
1589 - Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
1590 it cannot be omitted.
1594 - Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
1596 - Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
1598 - Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
1599 Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
1601 - Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
1602 taller than the workarea.
1604 - Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
1605 related to large insets.
1607 - Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
1608 windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
1611 - Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
1612 dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
1614 - Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
1617 - Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
1620 - Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
1622 - Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
1624 - Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
1625 are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
1627 - Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
1628 with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
1629 tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
1631 - fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
1634 - when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
1635 that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
1637 - Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
1639 - Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
1641 - Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
1643 - When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
1644 inset, do not open it by mistake.
1646 - When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
1647 inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
1649 - Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
1651 - Show contents of branches in the ToC.
1653 - Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
1655 - Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
1657 - Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
1658 French keyboard too.
1660 - Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
1662 - Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
1664 - Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
1666 - Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
1668 - Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
1670 - Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
1672 - Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
1674 - Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
1675 important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
1677 - Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
1679 - Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
1681 - Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
1683 - Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
1685 - On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
1688 - The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
1689 a document. This is fixed.
1691 - Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
1692 (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
1693 (bug 3066) [qt only].
1695 - Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
1696 tempted to try them (bug 2387).
1698 - add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
1699 in preferences (bug 895)
1701 - Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
1704 * BUILD/INSTALLATION:
1706 - Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
1708 - Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
1712 - The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
1714 - Fix Free Software Foundation address.
1717 What's new in version 1.4.3?
1718 ----------------------------
1722 - All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
1723 longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
1725 - Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
1726 mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
1729 - Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
1731 - Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
1733 - Some small updates to the documentation.
1735 - Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
1736 Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
1738 - Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
1739 and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
1743 * Document Input/Output
1745 - Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
1747 - Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
1750 - Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
1752 - Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
1753 LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
1755 - When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
1756 require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
1759 - Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
1760 when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
1762 - Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
1763 \atop or \over (bug 2481).
1765 - Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
1767 - Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
1769 - Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
1771 - Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
1775 - Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
1776 boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
1778 - Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
1779 inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
1781 - Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
1782 creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
1784 - Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
1786 - Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
1788 - Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
1790 - Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
1792 - Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
1795 - Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
1797 - Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
1799 - Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
1801 - Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
1804 - Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
1806 - Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
1807 one element (like {a'}^{2}).
1809 - On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
1810 if it exists (bug 2779).
1812 - When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
1813 don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
1815 - When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
1816 paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
1818 - Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
1820 - Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
1822 - Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
1824 - Update labels on screen when changing language.
1826 - Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
1827 chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
1829 - Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
1830 ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
1832 - Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
1834 - Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
1836 - Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
1838 - Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
1840 - Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
1841 "New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
1843 - The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
1844 directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
1846 - Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
1848 - New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
1849 accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
1851 * Build/installation:
1853 - Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
1855 - Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
1856 /bin/bash (bug 2524).
1858 - Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
1859 (and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
1861 - Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
1863 - Install python files together with precompiled versions.
1865 - A scons build system has been added, for details please see
1866 INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
1867 package under cygwin.
1869 - A CMake build system has been added, for details see
1870 development/cmake/README.cmake
1872 - LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
1873 project and scons or CMake.
1877 - LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
1879 - Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
1881 - Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
1883 - Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
1885 - Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
1886 iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
1888 - Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
1890 - Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
1891 replaced by tex2LyX.
1894 What's new in version 1.4.2?
1895 ----------------------------
1899 - LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
1900 [Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
1902 - Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
1903 in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
1906 - Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
1907 Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
1909 - Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
1910 (Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
1912 - Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
1914 - Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
1915 .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
1916 to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
1918 - Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
1919 International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
1922 - Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
1924 - Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
1926 - Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
1928 - Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
1929 the math panel yet.)
1935 - Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
1937 - Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
1940 - Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
1941 an inset (bug 2526).
1943 - Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
1944 (bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
1946 - Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
1947 and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
1949 - Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
1952 - When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
1953 language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
1955 - Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
1958 - Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
1959 change tracking mode.
1961 - Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
1962 with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
1964 - Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
1965 markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
1967 - Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
1968 multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
1970 - Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
1973 - Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
1976 - Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
1978 - Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
1979 error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
1981 - Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
1983 - Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
1984 the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
1986 - Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
1988 - Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
1990 - Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
1994 - Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
1997 - Fix undo in matrices.
1999 - Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
2001 * Document input/output:
2003 - Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
2006 - Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
2007 position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
2009 - Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
2010 using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
2011 array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
2013 - Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
2015 - Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
2018 - Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
2020 - Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
2022 - Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
2024 - Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
2026 - Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
2027 pdflatex (bug 2235).
2029 - Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
2031 - Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
2035 - Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
2036 lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
2037 has also been pythonified.
2039 - It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
2042 - Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
2043 lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
2044 any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
2045 before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
2047 - Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
2048 directory on Windows.
2050 - When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
2051 rename the executable files.
2053 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
2054 --with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
2056 - Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
2058 - Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
2059 in the source package.
2061 - Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
2064 - Fix hyphens in man pages.
2066 - Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
2067 \tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
2070 - Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
2071 support via zlib is now a requirement.
2073 - Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
2076 What's new in version 1.4.1?
2077 ----------------------------
2081 - Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
2084 - Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
2085 localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
2086 Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
2088 - Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
2089 translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
2091 - Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
2097 * Document input/output:
2099 - Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
2101 - Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
2103 - Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
2106 - Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
2108 - Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
2110 - Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
2112 - Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
2114 - Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
2117 - Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
2119 - Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
2121 - Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
2123 - Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
2125 - Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
2126 documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
2127 complete fix will go in 1.4.2
2132 - Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
2134 - Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
2136 - Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
2138 - Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
2141 - Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
2144 - Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
2146 - Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
2148 - Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
2150 - Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
2155 - Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
2157 - Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
2159 - Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
2160 deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
2162 - Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
2164 - Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
2166 - Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
2167 natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
2169 - Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
2170 classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
2172 - Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
2174 - Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
2176 - Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
2178 - Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
2179 line/document start/end (bug 2298).
2181 - Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
2183 - Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
2185 - Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
2187 - Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
2189 - Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
2191 - Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
2193 - Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
2195 - Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
2197 - Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
2199 - Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
2200 file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
2202 - Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
2205 * Configuration/Installation:
2207 - Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
2208 Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
2210 - Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
2213 What's new in version 1.4.0?
2214 ----------------------------
2216 As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
2217 visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
2218 some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
2220 ** Improved user interface
2222 LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
2223 clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
2224 menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
2225 the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
2226 classic UI) is still available, for now.
2228 It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
2229 editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
2230 the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
2231 extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
2232 available: one for tables, and one for math.
2234 Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
2235 toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
2240 This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
2241 makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
2242 changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
2245 ** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
2247 The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
2248 and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
2249 parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
2250 much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
2254 For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
2255 logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
2256 omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
2257 addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
2263 The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
2264 seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
2265 document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
2267 That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
2268 "branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
2269 more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
2271 ** Minipages evolve to Boxes
2273 In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
2274 use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
2279 LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
2280 the Insert>Note menu:
2282 - the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
2283 - exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
2285 - The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
2286 well, greyed-out text.
2288 ** Better language and numbering on screen
2290 Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
2292 - the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
2293 the language of the document, which may be different from the
2294 language of the menus;
2295 - sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
2296 document class specifications.
2300 Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
2301 count of the document or of the current selection.
2305 Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
2306 of errors popping up at compilation time.
2308 ** Improved bibliography support
2310 - LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
2311 "before citation" field is supported;
2312 - We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
2313 flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
2315 - Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
2316 - the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
2317 index processor is invoked).
2319 ** Improved microtypography support
2321 LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
2323 - more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
2324 between "e." and "g.");
2325 - inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
2326 style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
2327 - the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
2328 improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
2329 much space between figure/table and caption.
2333 - Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
2335 - The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
2338 - The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
2339 edit the included figure
2341 - For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
2342 has poor support for other than English index sorting.
2346 Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
2347 bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
2350 What's new in version 1.3.7?
2351 ----------------------------
2353 We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
2354 addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
2357 - LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
2358 the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
2360 - The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
2361 installer and in the handling of file names.
2363 All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
2366 What's new in version 1.3.6?
2367 ----------------------------
2369 Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
2371 To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
2372 to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
2373 effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
2374 unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
2375 touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
2376 confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
2377 Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
2379 We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
2380 * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
2381 spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
2383 * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
2384 and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
2385 * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
2386 considered as part of words
2390 What's new in version 1.3.5?
2391 ----------------------------
2393 This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
2394 improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
2395 * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
2396 broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
2397 case where the files are in different directories.
2398 * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
2400 What's new in version 1.3.4?
2401 ----------------------------
2403 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
2405 * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
2406 * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
2407 they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
2408 * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
2410 * Mac OS X support is much improved;
2411 * The interface and documentation localization have
2414 What's new in version 1.3.3?
2415 ----------------------------
2417 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
2419 * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
2420 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
2421 * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
2422 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
2423 the user interface and documentation.
2425 What's new in version 1.3.2?
2426 ----------------------------
2428 This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
2430 * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
2432 * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
2433 * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
2436 What's new in version 1.3.1?
2437 ----------------------------
2439 LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
2440 features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
2441 significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
2442 also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
2443 improvements) for good measure.
2447 - when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
2448 is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
2450 - reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
2451 descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
2453 - new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
2454 polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
2455 Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
2456 scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
2459 - new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
2460 keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
2461 (documentation has been updated too)
2463 - updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
2464 spanish translation of menus
2466 - Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
2467 of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
2468 release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
2470 What's new in version 1.3.0?
2471 ----------------------------
2473 As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
2474 release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
2475 on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
2476 glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
2477 LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
2479 Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
2480 hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
2481 been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
2485 This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
2486 either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
2487 of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
2488 functionally equivalent.
2490 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
2491 latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
2492 symbols displayed properly.
2496 Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
2497 stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
2498 strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
2503 preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
2504 of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
2505 LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
2506 http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
2507 Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
2508 allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
2509 figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
2510 rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
2511 preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
2512 actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
2516 There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
2517 visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
2518 a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
2519 formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
2520 minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
2521 package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
2522 structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
2523 anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
2524 the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
2525 "regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
2526 behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
2527 get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
2528 support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
2529 "switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
2530 trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
2532 - Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
2533 in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
2535 - Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
2536 will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
2537 removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
2538 like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
2539 the inset and press 'backspace'.
2541 ** Reading old files
2543 LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
2544 produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
2545 created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
2546 in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
2548 There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
2549 _newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
2550 to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
2551 1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
2553 ** Miscellaneous changes
2555 - LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
2556 equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
2557 configure your font server).
2559 - The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
2560 for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
2563 - The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
2564 to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
2567 - If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
2568 spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
2569 multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
2573 What's new in version 1.2.3?
2574 ----------------------------
2576 LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
2577 where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
2578 special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
2579 Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
2583 - updated italian User Guide
2585 - updated french localization
2588 What's new in version 1.2.2?
2589 ----------------------------
2591 LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
2592 1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
2597 - LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
2598 advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
2599 support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
2601 - selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
2602 when dragging the mouse)
2604 - it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
2605 particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
2606 require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
2609 - when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
2610 automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
2611 who are not aware that it is needed
2613 - when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
2614 keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
2616 - in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
2617 other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
2619 - Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
2621 - new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
2623 - update sciword bindings
2625 - small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
2626 Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
2628 - update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
2632 What's new in version 1.2.1?
2633 ----------------------------
2635 LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
2636 1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
2637 developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
2638 1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
2643 - it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
2644 when this gets released)
2646 - partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
2647 the performance problems
2649 - new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
2651 - revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
2652 table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
2653 seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
2655 - it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
2658 - when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
2659 float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
2660 help entering of ERT insets)
2662 - update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
2664 - update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
2666 - better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
2668 - cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
2669 obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
2672 - add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
2674 - support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
2677 - it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
2678 line and have this file created for you
2680 - new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
2681 heb-article and hollywood textclasses
2684 What's new in version 1.2.0?
2685 ----------------------------
2687 LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
2688 really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
2689 further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
2690 versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
2691 be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
2694 This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
2695 which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
2698 - Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
2699 positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
2702 - Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
2703 (memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
2704 Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
2706 - TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
2709 - Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
2710 appear in the output.
2712 - New minipage inset
2714 Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
2715 versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
2719 Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
2721 - New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
2722 image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
2723 rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
2726 - Support for natbib for bibliography citations
2730 The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
2731 cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
2732 process, among which:
2734 - many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
2736 - possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
2737 also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
2738 relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
2740 - support for many amsmath features
2741 Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
2742 over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
2743 Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
2744 split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
2747 - Preliminary support for xymatrix
2749 - Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
2751 - Improvements to the parser
2753 - Improvements to math text mode
2755 - (Better) support for nested macros
2757 - Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
2759 - Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
2761 - GUI support provided for many more features
2764 Other changes include:
2766 - Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
2769 - Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
2770 improved in the process
2772 - The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
2773 Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
2774 version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
2776 - The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
2779 - New ligature break special character, useful for words like
2780 "shelfful", or many german words
2782 - Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
2783 with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
2784 improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
2785 LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
2787 - Updated documentation
2789 - a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
2792 - Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
2794 - It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
2796 - Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
2798 - Babel can be disabled
2800 - A thesaurus facility (English only)
2802 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
2803 ------------------------------------
2805 LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
2809 - add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
2811 - change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
2812 appears to be more suitable.
2814 - add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
2815 This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
2817 - add support for dvipdfm
2819 - when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
2820 extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
2822 - insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
2825 - new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
2827 - the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
2830 - updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
2832 - updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
2835 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
2836 ------------------------------------
2838 LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
2842 - documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
2845 - new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
2846 documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
2848 - the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
2851 - it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
2852 different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
2854 - new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
2855 Theoretical Computer Science
2857 - new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
2859 - new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
2860 versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
2862 - the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
2863 LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
2864 with the older version
2867 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
2868 ------------------------------------
2870 LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
2874 - add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
2876 - the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
2877 to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
2878 install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
2880 - many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
2881 documentation update.
2883 - preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
2886 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
2887 ------------------------------------
2889 LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
2893 - updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
2894 translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
2896 - better support for ukrainian language
2898 - non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
2899 working --with-lyx-suffix.
2901 - in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
2902 line-delete-forward.
2904 - Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
2906 - Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
2909 What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
2910 --------------------------------
2912 As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
2913 of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
2914 the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
2916 Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
2917 new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
2918 GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
2919 from the older development version:
2921 - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
2922 process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
2923 popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
2924 in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
2925 have been overhauled.
2927 - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
2930 - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
2931 display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
2933 - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
2935 - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
2936 LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
2937 will give you an idea of what is happening.
2939 Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
2941 - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
2942 object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
2943 inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
2944 cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
2945 layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
2946 not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
2947 is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
2949 While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
2950 easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
2951 features may not work right now, but at least it is much
2954 - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
2955 inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
2956 applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
2957 include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
2958 images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
2959 rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
2961 - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
2962 viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
2963 rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
2964 import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
2965 formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
2967 (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
2969 - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
2971 - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
2972 document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
2973 Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
2974 iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
2975 have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
2976 The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
2978 - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
2980 - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
2983 - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
2984 largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
2986 And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
2987 mentioned here for your information
2989 - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
2990 (this can be changed in preferences).
2992 - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
2997 What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
2998 --------------------------------
3000 Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
3001 We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
3002 This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
3004 We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
3005 this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
3007 User-visible changes:
3009 - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
3011 - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
3013 - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
3015 - multilingual documents (preliminary support)
3017 - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
3018 only and is likely to improve in future versions.
3020 - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
3021 command-line/window:
3022 paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
3024 - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
3025 in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
3027 - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
3029 - labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
3031 - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
3033 - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
3034 earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
3035 errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
3036 (And you probably had the error always.)
3038 - Better definition for LyXList style.
3040 - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
3041 LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
3043 - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
3045 - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
3046 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
3047 spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
3048 support is of course not supported in older versions.
3050 - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
3052 - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
3053 (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
3055 - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
3056 use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
3058 - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
3059 screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
3060 by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
3061 lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
3064 What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
3065 --------------------------------
3067 More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
3068 routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
3069 changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
3072 In the user-visible department, we find:
3074 - new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
3075 direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
3076 ('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
3077 the GUI pops up during the process...
3079 - better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
3081 - improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
3082 translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
3084 - new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
3085 under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
3086 to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
3087 in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
3089 And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
3092 What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
3093 --------------------------------
3095 More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
3096 small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
3098 - LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
3099 (this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
3100 LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
3102 - The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
3103 creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
3106 - the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
3109 - Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
3111 - The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
3112 swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
3113 should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
3114 will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
3115 for the sake of correctness.
3117 - The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
3118 formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
3120 - Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
3121 which improves the result with T1 fonts.
3123 - new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
3125 - The textclass g-brief has been updated.
3127 And of course many bugs have been fixed.
3129 What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
3130 --------------------------------
3132 LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
3134 - the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
3135 Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
3136 variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
3138 Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
3140 - a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
3142 - the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
3144 Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
3145 has also been fixed.
3147 What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
3148 --------------------------------
3150 LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
3151 it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
3152 changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
3153 branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
3154 very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
3155 a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
3157 User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
3159 - New export to HTML feature
3161 - All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
3163 - normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
3164 a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
3165 to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
3167 - the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
3168 to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
3169 override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
3171 What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
3172 --------------------------------------------------
3174 LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
3175 new features has been included:
3181 - Better printing with custom pagesizes.
3183 - Several language files updated.
3185 - And several bugfixes to math and table.
3187 What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
3188 --------------------------------------------------
3190 LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
3192 - improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
3195 - new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
3197 - New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
3199 What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
3200 --------------------------------------------------
3202 LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
3203 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
3205 - Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
3207 - New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
3208 translation of UserGuide.lyx.
3210 - Better multipart document support.
3212 - LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
3215 - New broadway textclass (for plays).
3218 What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
3219 --------------------------------------------------
3221 LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
3222 compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
3224 - Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
3226 - New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
3228 - Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
3230 - Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
3232 - New LaTeX document classe: APA
3236 What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
3237 ----------------------------------------------------
3239 LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
3240 version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
3242 - much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
3243 have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
3244 installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
3245 of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
3246 by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
3248 - Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
3249 footnotes, and generally better output.
3251 - New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
3252 implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
3253 package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
3254 various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
3255 Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
3257 - Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
3258 and error message translations) for several languages.
3260 - Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
3261 will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
3262 environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
3264 - Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
3266 - Improved table support.
3268 - Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
3270 - easier handling of index entries.
3272 - The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
3273 whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
3274 have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
3275 Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
3278 Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
3279 default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as