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!Important Changes in LyX 2.4.0
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!Important Changes in LyX 2.5.0
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!!Interface changes
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!!Interface changes
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* It is now possible to cancel background export processes at any time. A menu
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entry to do so will appear on the Document menu when such a process is
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underway. The LFUN for this is export-cancel. One can also click on the red
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'x' next to the spinner to cancel export. Thanks to this functionality, we now
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remove the "Stop command?" prompt, which polled users whether to stop a long
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process.
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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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* Backspace and other forms of deletion will now merge paragraphs even when they
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have different layouts.
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* Ctrl-click on a cross-reference will now take you to its label.
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* Default shortcuts for saving bookmarks have been changed to Alt-NUM, where
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NUM is the number of the bookmark. (They were previously Shift-F1, etc.)
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* Shift-F3 can be used for word-find-backwards (i.e., find previous) on Linux
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and Windows.
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* The shortcut to use the selection for a find on macOS is now Cmd-E, as is the
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Apple standard. The shortcut for find the next occurrence of the current
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find buffer text is Cmd-G. The shortcut for toggle of font emphasis has been
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changed to Cmd-Ctrl-E.
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* Continuous spellcheck is now on by default, but only if the user does not have
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an existing preferences file. In that case, the old setting is preserved.
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* Document (or selection statistics) is now shown in status bar and can be
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disabled by the context menu.
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* The actual enabled state of the synchronize TeX output option of the document
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is used to enable or disable the menu item for forward-search.
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* When using the document compare function, there is now an option to display the
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differences using a special "Document Compare" author.
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* InsetRef now supports starred commands. The starred commands stop hyperref from
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creating a link (and are only available when hyperref is used). There is a
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checkbox "No Hyperlink" for this purpose.
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* Alt-Escape can be used to 'float' and redock widgets like the table of contents
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or source view.
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* Edit > Paste operation now preserves newlines in text by default.
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* Dark mode on Windows is possible now by choosing "fusion" user interface style
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in the user interface preferences dialog, your system style has to be set to dark.
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* One can now use the Text Properties dialog in mathed to not only change
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colors but also other text properties, except strikethrough and language
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settings.
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!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
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!!Documents compilation process and images conversion
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* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does
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!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.5:
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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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* LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
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!!!The following pref variables were changed in 2.5:
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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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!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.5:
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encoding is set to "utf8-plain" or "ascii".
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* With LyXHTML output, there are now different CSS classes generated for
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!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.5:
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different depths: enumi, enumii, enumiii, and enumiv, and similarly for
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itemize: lyxitemi, etc. There is also a new HTMLClass tag, which makes it
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easier to provide specific classes for paragraphs.
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* HTML support has been updated to output XHTML5 files. A major change is the
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!!!The following LyX functions have been changed in 2.5:
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use of XML entities instead of HTML ones (e.g., LyX now outputs -
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instead of ").
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* DocBook support has been revamped and now targets DocBook 5 (i.e.
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!!!The following LyX functions have been removed in 2.5:
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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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* Postscript -> PDF convertor (ps2pdf) uses -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY by
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!!!The following LyX function has been added and then removed in 2.5 development cycle:
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default now (implemented since ghostscript 9.53.3, see bug #12303).
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* There is a widespread ban on postscript conversions across different
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linux distributions and there are currently two way how to address
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various image conversion errors when typesetting your documents:
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- either manually remove the bans of EPS/PDF coders in ImageMagick
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policy.xml configuration file
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- or install alternative converters for bitmap <-> postscript.
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In particular pdftoppm (poppler-utils) and tiff2ps (libtiff-tools)
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are now recognized and activated in case LyX detects ImageMagick
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policy ban. These will allow eps<->png(jpg) conversion chain to
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be found when processing your documents.
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Package maintainers of distributions (e.g. openSUSE or Debian derivates)
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where ghostscript conversions of ImageMagick are banned can simply
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add dependencies for poppler-utils and libtiff-tools to workaround
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the problem.
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* LyX now supports hebrew and hungarian quotation styles.
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!!!The following pref variables were added in 2.4:
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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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* \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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* \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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* \draw_strategy partial|backingstore: when this is set to
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"backingstore", the drawing code will force the use of an
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intermediate surface, instead of just drawing changed regions on
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screen. Note that "backingstore" is actually always enforced on
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macOS and Wayland (default: partial).
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* \screen_limit true|false: determines whether the text width on screen is limited
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(both fullscreen and normal view).
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* \screen_width <length>: sets the width of the text on screen if \screen_limit is true.
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!!!The following pref variables are obsoleted in 2.4:
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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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* \fullscreen_limit
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Removed in favor of \screen_limit
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* \fullscreen_width
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Removed in favor of \screen_width
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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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* \use_pixmap_cacheqimage
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There is no evidence that this painting mode was useful anymore.
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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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!!!The following new LyX functions have been introduced in 2.4:
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* bibtex-database-list: output a list of all bibtex files used in the current buffer.
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The function outputs absolute paths in the OS style and separated by the os-specific
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path separator. This function is intended for bibliography managers.
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* branch-sync-all: Open/close all insets of selected branch (depending on its activation status).
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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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* buffer-write-as-template is a new convenience function to ease saving a document
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in the (personal) templates folder.
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* export-cancel: Used to cancel background export processes.
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* font-nospellcheck marks the word under cursor or selection to the effect that the
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spellchecker ignores it.
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* ifrelatives is a helper function to check whether a buffer has a master or children.
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* lyxfiles-open opens the new examples or templates dialog.
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* master-buffer-forall executes an lfun in the master and all children of a document.
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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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* search-string-set [arg] stores the <arg>, the currently selected text or the word under
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cursor in the search cache that is used by word-find[-backward|-forward] if no argument
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is given to those.
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* spelling-add-local adds words for a given language to the document's local spelling
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dictionary.
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* spelling-remove-local removes words for a given language from the document's local
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spelling dictionary.
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* index-tag-all adds a copy of the index entry under cursor to after all occurrences of the
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word that precedes the index inset.
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* inset-insert-copy inserts the inset's content (in ToC pane) at the position of the cursor.
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* inset-split is a new convenience function that splits an inset into two at the given
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cursor position. This is only implemented for text insets currently.
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* tabular-style-insert: Insert a table in a specified style.
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* tab-group-next, tab-group-previous: Activate another tab group in split view.
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The new functions bound to F6/S-F6 in CUA bindings.
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* citation-insert now returns a list of undefined citations if passed through the LyX Server.
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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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* info-insert buffer vcs-*: renamed to info-insert vcs *
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* inset-edit recognizes optional argument "nogui" - no editor will be launched in
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such case, only filename will be returned (for use in scripts).
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* outline-in/out can now take argument "local", that restricts their
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action to the current paragraph.
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* set-graphics-group was renamed to graphics-set-group.
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* tabular-feature: added toggle parameters "toggle-all-lines", "toggle-border-lines"
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and "toggle-inner-lines"
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* word-delete-forward, word-delete-backward, char-delete-forward,
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char-delete-backward
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The 2.4 behavior of these functions is almost equivalent to the
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pre-2.3 behavior: without argument, it just deletes the
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next/previous element; with the "confirm" argument however, big
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insets are selected on the first call and deleted only on the
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second. This new behavior allow scripts to work intuitively and
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require the argument only for interactive use.
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* date-insert: obsoleted by info-insert date.
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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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* 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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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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* The examples and templates directories have been completely re-organized.
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rules that can be used when searching for an icon. This mechanism
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* Metainfo was updated from appdata.xml to org.lyx.LyX.metainfo.xml
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and is by default installed to /usr/share/metainfo/ per freedesktop.org
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recommendation.
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* The Qt5 libraries are now used by default. In order to link against
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Qt6 the configure option --enable-qt6 has to be used. Qt4 is not
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* The dependency on pplatex/dvipost was dropped.
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* The dependency on sgmltools was dropped, see DocBook 5 section.
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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.
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Version 1.79.2 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides xslt
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style sheets you can use configure parameter --without-xslt-stylesheets to
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* XSLT processor is needed, two options were successfully tested
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- Version 6.5.5 is bundled with LyX. If your system already provides Saxon
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(or xsltproc) you can use configure parameter --without-saxon to avoid
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* bash_completion script was updated for a newer syntax.
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* Various versions Qt6 have a problem with key events handling (QTBUG-123848).
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This issue is documented in bug #12641 (e.g. LyX is unresponsive to
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* Gnome environments defaulting to Wayland + mutter compositor might be missing
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proper window decorations. This is a generic problem which can be for Qt-based
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applications (including LyX) alleviated by setting QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gnome
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environment variable prior to running LyX.
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* For others see http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
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!!Caveats when upgrading from earlier versions to 2.4.x
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* LyX now uses the parskip package for vertical paragraph separation. Since the
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output differs from the previous (sub-optimal) approach which applied paragraph
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separation to sections, lists etc. as well, existing documents
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The downside is that the workarea looks as if paragraph indendation rather
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than paragraph separation was used (output is correct). We encourage you
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and re-set the paragraph separation to use the new layout.
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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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* 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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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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* Parentheses inside custom insets (defined in the local layout or in a
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custom module) which has the "PassThru" tag set to true, in a hebrew text
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will be reversed after conversion of existing documents.
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To avoid that remove the "PassThru" tag, and restore it after
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the conversion, or add the name of the inset, inset and the argument,
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or layout and argument to the appropriate list, or dictionary in
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the function "convert_hebrew_parentheses(document)" in lyx_2_4.py.
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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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!!Detailed list of 2.4 changes
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* For more comprehensive list of changes and new features in LyX 2.4 see
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https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX24
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