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!Important Changes in LyX 2.4.0
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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!!Interface changes
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2019-05-12 11:37:13 +00:00
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* It is now possible to cancel background export processes. A menu entry
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2017-12-21 23:59:46 +00:00
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to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is underway.
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2019-05-28 20:47:11 +00:00
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The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the 'spinner'
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to cancel export.
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* The items on the Edit menu have been reordered, and many of the shortcuts
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have been changed so that they are more intuitive in the case of often
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used items. We understand that this may frustrate some users and apologize,
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while noting that menu shortcuts can always be customized by copying the
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stdmenus.inc file to the user directory and editing it.
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2016-09-19 09:57:39 +00:00
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2020-08-03 03:25:48 +00:00
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* Backspace will now merge paragraphs even when they have different layouts.
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2020-09-10 17:09:16 +00:00
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* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2017-04-22 21:28:48 +00:00
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!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
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2020-04-16 17:21:54 +00:00
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* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
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not affect existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch
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personal defaults and templates. That is to say, if you still see
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traditional encoding preset for new documents, you can change that
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by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save as
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Documents Defaults" afterwards. Your personal templates need to be
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changed manually if desired.
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2019-05-11 09:28:53 +00:00
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2019-04-29 12:02:48 +00:00
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* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
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2019-07-12 18:30:22 +00:00
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"Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.
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* Documents that use TeX fonts can only be compiled with XeTeX if the input
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encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
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2020-07-08 19:15:13 +00:00
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* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e.
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only XML, SGML is gone). Some supporting files for the previous
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implementation have been removed: all examples (lib/examples),
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some layouts (existing documents should still work, but with a
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DocBook 5 output instead of DocBook 4 SGML). The dependency on
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sgmltools has been removed, this new support is always enabled.
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Having sgmltools installed or not will not change anything in LyX.
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2017-04-22 21:28:48 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
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2017-04-22 21:28:48 +00:00
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2019-12-31 11:24:25 +00:00
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* \ct_additions_underlined true|false: determines whether additions in change tracking
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are underlined in the workarea (default: true).
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2017-09-09 06:56:04 +00:00
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2020-01-13 14:20:48 +00:00
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* \ct_markup_copied true|false: determines whether change tracking markup should be
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preserved on copy/paste (default: false).
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2020-08-23 20:19:34 +00:00
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* \citation_search_view lyxpaperview: determines whether external script "lyxpaperview"
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should be used for looking up citation source.
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2017-09-09 06:56:04 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.4:
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4:
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2018-04-22 17:06:46 +00:00
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* \font_encoding
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The font encoding is now automatically set depending on the document
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fonts and languages.
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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* \use_qimage
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This is no longer necessary due to the rewrite of the painter.
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2016-05-23 01:04:55 +00:00
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2018-10-07 12:48:05 +00:00
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* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage
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There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore.
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2018-08-20 07:25:22 +00:00
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* \date_insert_format
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The function date-insert has been removed and superseded by info-insert date.
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The latter does not need a pref value anymore.
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2016-04-26 03:45:39 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
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2017-09-09 06:56:04 +00:00
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2019-12-31 11:24:25 +00:00
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* bidi is a helper function to implement icons that are different between LTR and RTL text.
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* buffer-reset-export advises LyX to remove the auxiliary files before doing the next
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export.
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2019-04-17 06:08:58 +00:00
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2019-03-26 17:05:25 +00:00
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* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document
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2019-03-23 16:02:38 +00:00
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in the (personal) templates folder.
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2018-08-18 14:11:08 +00:00
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* export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes.
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2016-08-04 05:44:04 +00:00
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2020-01-02 13:09:24 +00:00
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* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children.
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2019-12-31 11:27:00 +00:00
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* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document.
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2019-12-31 11:24:25 +00:00
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* paragraph-select is a new convenience function to select the paragraph
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surrounding the actual cursor position.
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2020-12-24 09:55:10 +00:00
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* inset-split is a new convenience function that splits an inset into two at the given
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2020-12-24 09:48:52 +00:00
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cursor position. This is only implemented for text insets currently.
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2019-03-26 17:05:25 +00:00
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* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
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2016-08-04 05:20:14 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.4:
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2017-07-25 13:19:17 +00:00
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2018-08-18 14:11:08 +00:00
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* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group.
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* info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
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2018-02-08 20:59:41 +00:00
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2019-03-26 09:09:55 +00:00
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* file-insert: optional second parameter "ignorelang" to make the insertion
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ignore the inserted file's main language (and rather adapt it to the insertion
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context's language).
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2018-08-20 07:25:22 +00:00
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!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.4:
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* date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
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2020-04-16 17:21:54 +00:00
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!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.4 development cycle.
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* bidi: used as a first solution to provide icons that change
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direction with language.
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2018-08-20 07:25:22 +00:00
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following LyX documents have been moved in 2.4:
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2016-12-16 10:23:22 +00:00
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2019-03-23 16:02:38 +00:00
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* As a result of a major restructuring of the templates and example
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directories, almost all examples and templates files have been renamed and
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moved to subfolders that reflect the layout category.
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The files now have much more decriptive (and longer) names, and they use
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URL encoding for specific special characters such as '(', ')' and '&'.
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Notably also the file that opens for new users has been renamed (from
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splash.lyx to Welcome.lyx).
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2015-12-11 11:10:00 +00:00
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2017-03-26 13:32:01 +00:00
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!!!The following new folders have been added to the LyX directory
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2019-03-23 16:02:38 +00:00
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* The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized.
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They are now much more structured (by means of layout categories) and thus
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consist of many new subfolders.
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2017-03-26 13:32:01 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following preferences files have been removed from the tarball in 2.4:
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2017-03-26 13:32:01 +00:00
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2016-05-22 22:05:24 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!!The following metadata files have been added to the tarball in 2.4:
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2017-01-14 21:44:46 +00:00
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2015-05-19 07:57:52 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!Changes with respect to external programs and libraries in 2.4:
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2018-08-26 15:46:35 +00:00
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* The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
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Qt4 the configure option --disable-qt5 has to be used.
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2020-01-14 21:12:35 +00:00
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* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
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2020-01-13 15:02:42 +00:00
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2020-07-12 09:52:06 +00:00
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* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.
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2017-03-26 13:32:01 +00:00
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2021-02-05 15:07:09 +00:00
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* Java is a required dependency to generate ePub files. Any JVM for Java 1.4
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should be supported.
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* Saxon is a required dependency to generate ePub files. Only versions 6.5.4
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and 6.5.5 are supported. Version 6.5.5 is bundled with LyX.
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* The DocBook XSLT 1.0 style sheets are a required dependency to generate
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ePub files. All versions since 1.76.0 are supported. Version 1.79.2 is
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bundled with LyX.
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2015-08-26 06:41:12 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!Known issues in version 2.4.0
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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* See http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
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2017-03-26 13:32:01 +00:00
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2017-09-09 08:55:37 +00:00
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!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x
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2018-09-02 11:34:51 +00:00
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* Autotools monolithic build option for building LyX binaries was removed,
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for compilation speedup use parallel building on multiple cores instead.
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2017-06-01 20:15:52 +00:00
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2018-03-26 19:54:46 +00:00
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* Several ttf fonts (esint10.ttf, stmary10.ttf, wasy10.ttf) were changed
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to reflect the fact that newer Qt libraries do not support displaying certain
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codepoints anymore (bug #8493, #10161).
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Distribution packagers need to repack those font files in case they are
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2020-07-20 22:12:24 +00:00
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delivering the fonts as a separated package dependent from core LyX
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in order to display correctly math symbols like \oint.
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Also note, that while it is still possible to compile LyX against Qt 4
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these math symbols will not be displayed correctly anymore on Qt 4.
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!! If upgrading from a LyX version before 2.3.0
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* Please additionally see the release notes from the versions in-between:
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https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
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