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What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
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As for all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
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of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
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ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
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LyX 1.1.6!
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Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
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new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
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GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
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from the older development version:
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- many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
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process they have gotten a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
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popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
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in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
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have been overhauled.
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- LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
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lyxrc settings [Allan, details?]
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- the menus can now be defined from a text file (like the toolbar) and
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shows the keyboard bindings associated to commands.
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- it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
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- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
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LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
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can give you an idea of what is happening.
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Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
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- the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
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object (inset) which owns for each cell a (also) newly written text
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inset. This permits now to have automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
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cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
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layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
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not least, wide tabulars now scroll automatically so that all of it
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is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
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While there are yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
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easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
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features may not work right now, but at least you can use this much
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better than before.
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- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
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inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
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applications. Among other good things, it will allow you to finally
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include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
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images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
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rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
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- the code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
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viewing or exporting purpose) has been rewritten. In particular, the
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PDF format is now supported [Dekel, details?]
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- DocBook improvements [Jos<6F>, details?]
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And finally, there has been a lot of smaller changes, which are
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mentioned here for your information
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- the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
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(this can be changed in lyxrc).
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- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
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-height, etc.
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What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
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--------------------------------
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Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
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We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
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This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
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and expand.
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We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
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this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
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User-visible changes:
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- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
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- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
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- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
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- multilingual documents (preliminary support)
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- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
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only and is likely to improve in future versions.
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- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
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command-line/window:
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paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
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- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
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in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
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- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
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- labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
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- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
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- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
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earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
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errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
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(And you probably had the error always.)
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- Better definition for LyXList style.
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- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
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LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
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- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
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- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
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1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
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spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
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support is of course not supported in older versions.
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- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
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- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
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(The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
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- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
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use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
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- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
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screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
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by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
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lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
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What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
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More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
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routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
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changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
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SGI STL 3.2.
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In the user-visible department, we find:
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- new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
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direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
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('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
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the GUI pops up during the process...
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- better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
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- improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
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translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
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- new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
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under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
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to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
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in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
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And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
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What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
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More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
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small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
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- LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
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(this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
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LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
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- The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
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creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
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problems.
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- the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
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works now.
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- Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
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- The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
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swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
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should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
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will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
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for the sake of correctness.
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- The characters \angle and \vee are now correctly displayed in math
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formulas; the glyph for \Upsilon has been changed.
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- Characters '~' and '^' are now output using standard LaTeX macros,
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which improves the result with T1 fonts.
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- new function "command-sequence" to bind several sequences to a key.
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- The textclass g-brief has been updated.
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And of course many bugs have been fixed.
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What's new in LyX version 1.1.2?
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LyX 1.1.2 is a minor upgrade to 1.1.1, only one new feature has been added:
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- the export to html feature has been extended to use other programs.
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Currently, tth, latex2html and hevea are supported. Note that the
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variable \tth_command has been renamed to \html_command in lyxrc.
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Moreover, a couple of semi-serious bugs have been fixed:
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- a bug that caused a crash in lyxstring::find
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- the annoying '-' vs. '_' bug.
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Also the cheaders files were missing from the 1.1.1 distribution, that
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has also been fixed.
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What's new in LyX version 1.1.1?
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LyX 1.1.1 marks an important change in our development scheme. While
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it does not have many new features, there have been many internal
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changes, many of which have been backported from our old development
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branch (which is now extinct). So while on the surface this version is
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very similar to version 1.0.4, many things happened under the hood. As
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a consequence of this: expect that some new bugs have crept in.
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User visible changes in lyx 1.1.1:
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- New export to HTML feature
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- All the popups should be more resistant to resize actions.
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- normal spaces are automatically made unbreakable if we are in
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a freespacing mode (LyX-Code), but not in latex mode. The rule used
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to be that spaces where changed when in typewriter font.
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- the default encoding of a new document is now latin1, since it seems
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to be a reasonable default for many people. Note that you can
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override this default with the "Save layout as default" feature.
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What's new in 1.0.4 compared to LyX version 1.0.3?
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--------------------------------------------------
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LyX 1.0.4 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.3, but some
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new features has been included:
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- DocBook support.
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- RevTeX4.
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- Better printing with custom pagesizes.
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- Several language files updated.
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- And several bugfixes to math and table.
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What's new in 1.0.3 compared to LyX version 1.0.2?
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--------------------------------------------------
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LyX 1.0.3 is mainly a bugfix update to 1.0.2.
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- improved dependency tracking when running LaTeX (fixes one important
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bug in 1.0.2).
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- new italian and walloon localizations of the user interface.
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- New slovene and spanish translations of the Tutorial.
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What's new in 1.0.2 compared to LyX version 1.0.1?
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--------------------------------------------------
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LyX 1.0.2 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.1. Besides fixing many bugs
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compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
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- Improved reLyX: supports EPS image inclusion and works in windows.
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- New french translation of Intro.lyx and Tutorial.lyx; new german
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translation of UserGuide.lyx.
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- Better multipart document support.
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- LyX is now able to parse your BibTex files and show a list of
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entries.
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- New broadway textclass (for plays).
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What's new in 1.0.1 compared to LyX version 1.0.0?
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LyX 1.0.1 is a minor update to LyX 1.0.0. Besides fixing many bugs
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compared to version 1.0.0, it adds the following features:
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- Support for selecting pages and number of copies in print dialog
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- New function 'Replace all' in Find&Replace popup
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- Support for optional argument of \sqrt in math editor
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- Support for literate programming with the 'noweb' program
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- New LaTeX document classe: APA
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What's new in 1.0.0 compared to LyX version 0.12.0?
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----------------------------------------------------
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LyX 1.0.0 is a stable release. Besides fixing many bugs compared to
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version 0.12.0, it adds the following features:
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- much improved reLyX script: many bugs have been fixed, new options
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have been added, many constructs are now correctly handled. reLyX is now
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installed along with LyX and has its own man page. Separate upgrades
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of reLyX will be made available later. The reLyX script is utilized
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by the File->Import LaTeX command in LyX.
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- Much improved LinuxDoc (sgml-tools) support: multiple textclasses,
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footnotes, and generally better output.
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- New textclasses scrartcl, scrbook, scrreprt and scrlettr
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implementing the corresponding classes of the koma-script
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package. New textclasses latex8 for some IEEE journals, IEEEtran for
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various IEEE Transactions journals and ejour2 for some Springer Verlag
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Journals. New textclass hollywood to typeset your own film scripts.
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- Better support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu
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and error message translations) for several languages.
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- Documentation has been partly translated to German, Swedish, and Czech. You
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will get this automatically from the Help menu if you set up the LANG
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environment variable correctly (i.e. to 'de' or 'sv').
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- Documentation has been generally improved and expanded.
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- Improved table support.
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- Support for arbitrary line spacing in documents.
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- easier handling of index entries.
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- The printer configuration scheme has changed a bit to help people
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whose dvips is not configured correctly. As a consequence, you might
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have to modify your lyxrc a bit. All users are advised to re-run
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Option->Reconfigure to update LyX configuration.
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Note that your existing global lyxrc file will not be overwritten by
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default since now LyX only installs a file lyxrc.example to use as
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template.
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