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2006-01-25 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
* NEWS: update for 1.4.0.
2006-01-24 John Spray <spray@lyx.org> 2006-01-24 John Spray <spray@lyx.org>
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What's new in version 1.4.0? What's new in version 1.4.0?
---------------------------- ----------------------------
A long time since 1.3.0 now and a lot has happened. Alsmost the whole As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
core of LyX has been rewritten. visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
** Improved user interface
LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
classic UI) is still available, for now.
It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
available: one for tables, and one for math.
Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
table.
** Change tracking
This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
changes.
** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
** Character styles
For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
styles.
** Branches
The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
** Minipages evolve to Boxes
In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
GUI
** Notes
LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
the Insert>Note menu:
- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
further.
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
well, greyed-out text.
** Better language and numbering on screen
Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
the language of the document, which may be different from the
language of the menus;
- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
document class specifications.
** Word count
Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
count of the document or of the current selection.
** Error Lists
Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
of errors popping up at compilation time.
** Improved bibliography support
- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
"before citation" field is supported;
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
and law fields;
- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
index processor is invoked).
** Improved microtypography support
LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
between "e." and "g.");
- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
much space between figure/table and caption.
** Small bits
- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
pdf generation
- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
edit the included figure
- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
has poor support for other than English index sorting.
** Bug fixes
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
What's new in version 1.3.7?
----------------------------
We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
noting:
- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.
- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
installer and in the handling of file names.
All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
What's new in version 1.3.6?
----------------------------
Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.
To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.
We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
* It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
as teTeX 3.0).
* It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
* LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
considered as part of words
What's new in version 1.3.5?
----------------------------
This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
* Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
case where the files are in different directories.
* It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.
What's new in version 1.3.4?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
five main areas:
* It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
* Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
* New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
drag-and-drop);
* Mac OS X support is much improved;
* The interface and documentation localization have
been polished.
What's new in version 1.3.3?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
four main areas:
* import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
* MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
the user interface and documentation.
What's new in version 1.3.2?
----------------------------
This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
three main areas:
* the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs
have been squashed;
* many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
* several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
the user interface.
What's new in version 1.3.1?
----------------------------
LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
improvements) for good measure.
** Updates
- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]
- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this
- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
class kluwer
- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
(documentation has been updated too)
- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
spanish translation of menus
- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
What's new in version 1.3.0? What's new in version 1.3.0?
---------------------------- ----------------------------
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default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
template. template.