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Public release of LyX version 1.5.0
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0.
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Since the announcement of release candidate 2, we have fixed bugs and
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we have updated the documentation.
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Following the ad hoc tradition of 1.5.0 pre-releases, called
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respectively Ruby (alpha), Towny (beta) and Quinta ("farm" in
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Portuguese for the release candidates) this release starts the Vintage
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selection that is (will be) the 1.5 series.
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LyX 1.5.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work since the
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release of the LyX 1.4 series. We sincerely hope you will enjoy the
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result. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words, but
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initial unicode support is the flagship among the new features. See
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the end of this announcement for further details.
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As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
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visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
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some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
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* Unicode
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LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
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of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
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languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
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encodings currently available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
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encoding or a brand new typesetting system such as XeTeX.
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Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
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areas still need a cleanup it, is very likely that some bugs related to
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the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
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bugs on the LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
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to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
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mailing list.
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* Integrated CJK support
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The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
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merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
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The languages Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
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the user interface.
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Note that setting the encoding for these languages in LyX 1.5 by
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using ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
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Also note that you may need to run qtconfig and set appropriate default
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or substitution fonts to display CJK characters under some circumstances.
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* Language support
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In addition to the CJK languages, the languages Armenian and Farsi also
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have full user interface support.
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* Multiple views of the same buffer
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LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
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now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
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parts of it synchronously.
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* Outliner and embedded TOC
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LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
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you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
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dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
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1.4.4.) The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
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* Session management
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LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
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reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
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selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
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cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
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can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
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the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
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* Source code Viewer
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As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
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you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
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document.
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* New Font Selection Interface
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LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
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outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
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provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
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* Tabular extensions
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LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
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LaTeX. Support for the booktabs package has been implemented,
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providing beautiful and elegant tabulars.
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* Nomenclatures
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LyX now has native support for the nomencl package. With this,
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you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
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glossaries and fancy notations.
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* Tabbed Widget
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LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
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* Enhanced Math Toolbars
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The math toolbar was enhanced significantly. Drop down menus were
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added, allowing the integration of all of the math panel's content
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to the math toolbars.
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Since this input method is much easier than the clumsy panel, the math
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panel itself has been removed and superceded by the toolbars.
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* Frontend News
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LyX 1.5 uses the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
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Windows users, because there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
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longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
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Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
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was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
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in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
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unicode. The Qt3 frontend was also removed. The work on the GTK
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frontend has been transferred to a branch because its development has
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essentially stalled.
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* Change tracking enhancements
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Major parts of the change tracking code have been rewritten, addressing
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several problems that existed in the previous implementation.
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* Converter file cache
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A cache for converted files, such as included figures, has been
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implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
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displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
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to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
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is enabled by default.
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The default maximum age of a cached file is 6 months. You can change
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that with the line
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\converter_cache_maxage xxx
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where xxx is the maximum age in seconds, in your preferences file.
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* Unified Windows installer
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The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
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both installers are welcome.
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* Program listings
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The traditional way to insert program listings in LyX involves the use
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of the LyX-Code style. This option works quite well for short snippets but
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does not support in-line code segments or the inclusion of external files.
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Using the listings latex package as the backend a new inset was added that
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supports all these three ways of listing computer programs.
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* LaTeX-package support
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LyX provides the following new document classes:
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- article(IOP) - for scientific papers published by the IOP group
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- presentation(powerdot) - for presentations using the powerdot package
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- curriculum vitae(Europe) - for CVs following the guidelines of the EU
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- curriculum vitae(modern) - for CVs using the moderncv package
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- curriculum vitae(simple) - for simple CVs
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* Minor user interface improvements
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Several minor improvements of the user interface have been made, such as:
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- Syntax highlighting of the user preamble and the LaTeX log file.
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- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog).
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- Support for optional arguments for environments.
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* Enhanced clipboard/selection handling
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The clipboard has been tuned to work better with other applications.
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Parallel to clipboard usages, the *nix way of using middle-button
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to paste selected text is enhanced, and is also available under windows
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(but within lyx only). Selection of lyx text is now persistent in that
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you can paste the selected text using the middle button multiple times,
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even after the selection has been cleared.
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* Limited support for local class and layout files
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Lyx can not create, but can open a .lyx file with .cls and .layout files
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stored in the same directory as the .lyx file. That is to say, if you send
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your co-author a .lyx file with associated class and layout files, s/he
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can view and modify the .lyx file directly, without having to install the
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.cls and .layout files, reconfigure and restart lyx. Note that the .cls and
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.layout files have to be copied to every directory your .lyx files reside,
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should you use different directories for master and child documents.
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* Under the hood
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As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
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easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
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application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
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code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
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1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
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series has been to bring this speed back.
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** Bug fixes
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Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
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bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 2)
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----------------------------
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We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.5.0 (release candidate 2).
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We expect this to be the last release before 1.5.0. We do not anticipate
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any further changes before 1.5.0, although any critical bugs and regressions
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in 1.5.0rc2 will, of course, be addressed.
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Since the announcement of release candidate 1, we have mostly fixed bugs
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and polished the graphical interface.
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (release candidate 1)
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----------------------------
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The difference to the last beta release is due to bug fixes only,
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no new features are allowed at this stage of development. The only
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exception to this rule is the addition of Farsi as a supported language
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since the available patch was not integrated in the previous release.
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 3)?
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----------------------------
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Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs
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and added some improvements:
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* A new inset to support code listings.
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* We have enabled the converter file cache by default.
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* The languages Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are now supported in
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the user interface.
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Note that from now on, former encoding settings for these languages
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done via ERT or the document preamble will lead to LaTeX-errors!
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Internally we have renamed files to follow a consistent name pattern,
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this will allow an easier navigation of the source code thus simplifying
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bug fixing.
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 2)?
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----------------------------
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Compared with the previous beta release we have fixed several bugs and
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added some graphical improvements:
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* A new math toolbar replaces the old (faithful) math panel.
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* The converter file cache can be now configured in the graphical interface.
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* The TOC dialog is now a dock widget, embedded in the main window.
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Apart from the described major changes, several minor improvements of
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the user interface have been made, such as:
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- Syntax highlighting for the user preamble and the LaTeX log file
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- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
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- Support optional argument for environments
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What's new in version 1.5.0 (beta 1)?
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----------------------------
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* Unicode
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LyX 1.5's big goal was to use unicode internally and so resolve a slew
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of existing problems with special characters and non-alphabetic
|
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languages. LyX 1.5 is able to output unicode (in addition to
|
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encodings current available), so that you can use LaTeX's new utf8
|
|
encoding or such brand new typesetting systems as XeTeX.
|
|
Since the change to unicode touched much of the code base and some
|
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areas still need a cleanup it is very likely that some bugs related to
|
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the unicode transition still exist. Please have a look at the Known
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bugs in LyX 1.5 page if you encounter a bug that seems to be related
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to unicode. If it's not there, then please report it to the lyx-devel
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mailing list.
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* Integrated CJK support
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The very first result of the Unicode transition is that we have finally
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merged in the externally maintained CJK-LyX branch.
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* Multiple views of the same buffer
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|
LyX can now display multiple views of the same buffer. I.e., you can
|
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now open a single document in multiple windows and work on different
|
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parts of it synchronously.
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* Outliner
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|
|
LyX has another long-awaited feature: a basic outliner mode, in which
|
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you can move chapters and sections around in the Table of Contents
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dialog. (The outliner has been backported and was released with LyX
|
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1.4.4.)
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* Session management
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LyX is now able to remember window size and position and it will
|
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reopen the documents you worked on last time around. If you've
|
|
selected the feature in the Preferences dialog, it'll even move the
|
|
cursor to the place you were working on last! Furthermore, toolbars
|
|
can (finally!) be switched on/off in View->Toolbars and moved about in
|
|
the LyX window. The session management will remember their state.
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* Source code Viewer
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As a kind of "anti-preview-latex", a dialog was implemented that lets
|
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you view the source code of a given paragraph/selection or the whole
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document.
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* New Font Selection Interface
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LyX's font selection abilities have been one of its weakest and most
|
|
outdated components. A completely new interface was implemented that
|
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provides access to the power of LaTeX's font selection scheme.
|
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* Tabular extensions
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LyX's table support is certainly less powerful than that of
|
|
LaTeX. support for the booktabs package was implemented, which
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provides beautiful and elegant tabulars.
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* Nomenclatures
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Native LyX support for the nomencl package was implemented. With this,
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you can treat your document with all sorts of nomenclatures,
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glossaries and fancy notations.
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* Tabbed Widget
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LyX now uses tabbed widgets to display multiple documents.
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* Frontend News
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LyX 1.5 will use the Qt4 toolkit. This is especially good news for
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Windows users, since there's an official, GPL version of Qt4. They no
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longer have to rely on an unofficial port of the Unix Qt3 library to
|
|
Windows. The good old XForms frontend went the way of the dodo. It
|
|
was both hated and loved, and certainly shaped the unique look of LyX
|
|
in the past. It was finally killed off, however, by the switch to
|
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unicode. The Qt3 frontend was removed. The work on the GTK frontend
|
|
has been transferred to a branch because its development has
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essentially stalled.
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* Change tracking enhancements
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Major parts of the change tracking code were rewrote addressing
|
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several problems that existed in the existing implementation.
|
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* Converter file cache
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A cache for converted files, such as included figures, was
|
|
implemented. This can speed up LyX's performance considerably when
|
|
displaying documents with many included figures that need conversion
|
|
to a format that can be rendered on screen. The converter file cache
|
|
is disabled by default, and there is no GUI for configuring it yet. If
|
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you want to use it, add the line
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\use_converter_cache true
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to your preferences file. The default maximum age of a cached file is
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6 months. You can change that with the line
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\converter_cache_maxage xxx
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where xxx is the maximum age in seconds.
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* Unified Windows installer
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The two windows installers are being merged and bug reports regarding
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both installers are welcome.
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* Under the hood
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As usual, one big task has been the ongoing code cleanup of the LyX
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core. Performing this cleanup makes the code more understandable and
|
|
easier to maintain. It also leads inevitably to a more robust
|
|
application. Nonetheless, it's an unfortunate fact of life that ugly
|
|
code is sometimes faster than pretty code. We're well aware that LyX
|
|
1.4 is slower than LyX 1.3. One important goal of this 1.5 development
|
|
series has been to bring this speed back.
|
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What's new in version 1.4.5?
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----------------------------
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** Updates:
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***********
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* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
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- Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.
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** Bug fixes:
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*************
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
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- Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).
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- Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
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settings (bug 3416).
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- Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).
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- Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
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3510).
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- Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).
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* USER INTERFACE:
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- Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
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last paragraph (bug 3303).
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- Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with
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math insets (bug 3358).
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- Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).
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- Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).
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- Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).
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- Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).
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- Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
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(bug 3312).
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- Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).
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- Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
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Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).
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- Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).
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- Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
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things (bug 3295).
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- Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
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non-zero descent.
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- Set a default image size value (bug 2458).
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- Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.
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- Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).
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- Fix undo for special characters.
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- Fix gui for big delimiters.
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- Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
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delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).
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- Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).
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- Fix example for docbook-article.
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- Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).
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- Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
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class (bug 3931).
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* DOCUMENTATION
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- Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
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(bug 3736).
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- Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).
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- Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.
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* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
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- Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.
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- Allow automake 1.10 for building.
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- Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
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2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
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2.3.x python releases).
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What's new in version 1.4.4?
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----------------------------
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** Updates:
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***********
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
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- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.
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- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.
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- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
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(bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
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that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
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if you want to use this feature.
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- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.
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- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
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presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
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by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
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Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
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file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)
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- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).
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* USER INTERFACE:
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- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
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documents in the Table of Contents dialog.
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- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
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allowing to select what toolbars are active.
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- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
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layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
|
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extra toolbar.
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|
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- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).
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|
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- Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
|
|
characters on a qwerty keyboard).
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* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
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- A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
|
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in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
|
|
floats, notes, and boxes.
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|
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- Updated Intro and Extended manual.
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|
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- New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
|
|
Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.
|
|
|
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- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
|
|
Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
|
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(Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.
|
|
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** Bug fixes:
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*************
|
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
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- Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
|
|
they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
|
|
Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.
|
|
|
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- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
|
|
and alignedat.
|
|
|
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- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.
|
|
|
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- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.
|
|
|
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- Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
|
|
2744).
|
|
|
|
- The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
|
|
(bug 2186).
|
|
|
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- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.
|
|
|
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- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read
|
|
again.
|
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|
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- Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
|
|
with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
|
|
very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).
|
|
|
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- Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).
|
|
|
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- Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).
|
|
|
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- Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
|
|
(bug 2843).
|
|
|
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- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.
|
|
|
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- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
|
|
files.
|
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- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).
|
|
|
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- Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.
|
|
|
|
- Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)
|
|
|
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- Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files
|
|
|
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- Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
|
|
it cannot be omitted.
|
|
|
|
* USER INTERFACE:
|
|
|
|
- Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).
|
|
|
|
- Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).
|
|
|
|
- Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
|
|
Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
|
|
taller than the workarea.
|
|
|
|
- Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
|
|
related to large insets.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
|
|
windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
|
|
1.4.3.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
|
|
dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].
|
|
|
|
- Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
|
|
mode (bug 2865).
|
|
|
|
- Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
|
|
and 2933).
|
|
|
|
- Fix an undo crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).
|
|
|
|
- Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).
|
|
|
|
- Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
|
|
are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).
|
|
|
|
- Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
|
|
with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
|
|
tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).
|
|
|
|
- fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
|
|
2877).
|
|
|
|
- when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
|
|
that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).
|
|
|
|
- Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).
|
|
|
|
- Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.
|
|
|
|
- Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.
|
|
|
|
- When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
|
|
inset, do not open it by mistake.
|
|
|
|
- When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
|
|
inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.
|
|
|
|
- Give a better error message for missing layout include files.
|
|
|
|
- Show contents of branches in the ToC.
|
|
|
|
- Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.
|
|
|
|
- Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).
|
|
|
|
- Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
|
|
French keyboard too.
|
|
|
|
- Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.
|
|
|
|
- Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).
|
|
|
|
- Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).
|
|
|
|
- Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).
|
|
|
|
- Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).
|
|
|
|
- Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).
|
|
|
|
- Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).
|
|
|
|
- Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
|
|
important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).
|
|
|
|
- Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).
|
|
|
|
- Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).
|
|
|
|
- Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).
|
|
|
|
- Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).
|
|
|
|
- On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
|
|
the Finder uses.
|
|
|
|
- The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
|
|
a document. This is fixed.
|
|
|
|
- Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
|
|
(bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
|
|
(bug 3066) [qt only].
|
|
|
|
- Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
|
|
tempted to try them (bug 2387).
|
|
|
|
- add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
|
|
in preferences (bug 895)
|
|
|
|
- Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
|
|
(bug 3220).
|
|
|
|
* BUILD/INSTALLATION:
|
|
|
|
- Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.
|
|
|
|
- Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.
|
|
|
|
* MISCELLANEOUS
|
|
|
|
- The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.
|
|
|
|
- Fix Free Software Foundation address.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in version 1.4.3?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
** Updates:
|
|
|
|
- All shell scripts have been translated to python so sh.exe is no
|
|
longer needed. That's a big plus for the Windows port.
|
|
|
|
- Implement inset-dissolve feature; this can be accessed (like in
|
|
mathed) by pressing Backspace at the start of an inset, or Delete at
|
|
the end (bug 2201).
|
|
|
|
- Add buttons for \intop and \ointop to the math panel (bug 2698)
|
|
|
|
- Native support for \phantom, \hphantom and \vphantom in mathed (bug 1473).
|
|
|
|
- Some small updates to the documentation.
|
|
|
|
- Update Basque, Czech (new), French, German (bug 2718), Hungarian,
|
|
Italian (bug 2774), NyNorsk and Spanish localizations.
|
|
|
|
- Update Czech (Tutorial, new splash), German (UserGuide [bug 2660], Extended)
|
|
and Hungarian (new Tutorial) documentation.
|
|
|
|
** Bug fixes:
|
|
|
|
* Document Input/Output
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when importing LaTeX files with no text (bug 2667).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when a used bibtex file is in a non-readable directory
|
|
(bug 2782).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when lyx2lyx failed to convert LyX file.
|
|
|
|
- Ignore the definition of LyXgreyout environment when re-importing a
|
|
LyX-generated LaTeX file (part of bug 2420).
|
|
|
|
- When exporting to LaTeX an external inset with template XFig,
|
|
require the color package, since XFig generates LaTeX code with
|
|
\color (bug 2716).
|
|
|
|
- Make sure enough passes are made to update the table of contents
|
|
when running LaTeX (bug 2616).
|
|
|
|
- Don't add extra braces when reading documents containing \choose,
|
|
\atop or \over (bug 2481).
|
|
|
|
- Reenable import of noweb files (bug 2289).
|
|
|
|
- Render greyed out notes correctly in output (bug 2723).
|
|
|
|
- Fix bug 2768 (inset comment/note eats space after it).
|
|
|
|
- Do not convert known spaces to ERT on LaTeX import (bug 2786).
|
|
|
|
* User Interface:
|
|
|
|
- Fix random crashes resulting of an incompatibility of the included
|
|
boost::bind library with gcc 4.1 (bug 2677, probably also 2662 and 2684).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when using next-inset-toggle (Ctrl+I) inside mathed;
|
|
inset locking in mathed generally work (bug 2756).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash on save (including dataloss) when the backup directory
|
|
creation failed or the directory is not writeable(bug 2740).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when selecting several cells in a tabular (bug 2630).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when deleting a multi-cell selection in a tabular.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when applying a font change to several cells in a tabular.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when searching for an inset and none is present.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when scrolling the document and the cursor is inside an
|
|
inset (bug 2830).
|
|
|
|
- Fix lockup when accepting a change in a text inset (bug 2510).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash with change tracking in tables (bug 2600).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when undoing super/subscript deletion (bug 2727).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when the cursor is in an empty script and the user
|
|
clicks in the text.
|
|
|
|
- Do not reset environment depth when breaking a paragraph (bug 2445).
|
|
|
|
- Handle properly script insets which the nucleus has more than
|
|
one element (like {a'}^{2}).
|
|
|
|
- On pressing button 2 in a math inset, paste the inner LyX selection
|
|
if it exists (bug 2779).
|
|
|
|
- When inserting an inset (footnote etc.) over an existing selection,
|
|
don't copy the layout of the source paragraph to the inset (bug 2802).
|
|
|
|
- When pasting some text in an environment that does not allow the given
|
|
paragraph layout, reset the layout (bug 2382).
|
|
|
|
- Fix the disabling of some toolbar icons after closing a dialog (bug 2423).
|
|
|
|
- Fix the editing of a document while Error List dialog is open (bug 2179).
|
|
|
|
- Improve the position of the cursor after undo.
|
|
|
|
- Update labels on screen when changing language.
|
|
|
|
- Make sure that the "Check TeX" menu entry is not available when the
|
|
chktex tool has not been configured (bug 2831).
|
|
|
|
- Fix doubling of initial character when correcting a word with
|
|
ligatures in spellechecker (bug 2068).
|
|
|
|
- Show an error box when failing to update the TeX Information dalog data.
|
|
|
|
- Fix an unexpected font change on maximize (bug 2664).
|
|
|
|
- Handle the Meta keyboard modifier as Alt (Qt only).
|
|
|
|
- Fix the C-x C-b binding in emacs mode (bug 2747).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when a non-template file is selected in the
|
|
"New from Template" dialog (bug 2404).
|
|
|
|
- The LaTeX log file can now also be viewed if the path of the temporary
|
|
directory contains spaces (bug 2687)
|
|
|
|
- Graphics files with ' in the name can now be previewed (bug 2637)
|
|
|
|
- New menu entries have been added for phonetic symbols and
|
|
accepting/rejecting a single change in change tracking mode
|
|
|
|
* Build/installation:
|
|
|
|
- Fix compilation with Qt 3.0.x.
|
|
|
|
- Fix the 'check' make target for systems which do not have
|
|
/bin/bash (bug 2524).
|
|
|
|
- Set CPPFLAGS only if it not already set by the user
|
|
(and ignore CXXFLAGS when setting CPPFLAGS).
|
|
|
|
- Handle properly gcc 4.1 in configure.
|
|
|
|
- Install python files together with precompiled versions.
|
|
|
|
- A scons build system has been added, for details please see
|
|
INSTALL.scons. 'scons install' produces a cygwin-compatible binary
|
|
package under cygwin.
|
|
|
|
- A CMake build system has been added, for details see
|
|
development/cmake/README.cmake
|
|
|
|
- LyX can be compiled on windows with MSVC using qt3 from the Q../Free
|
|
project and scons or CMake.
|
|
|
|
* Miscellaneous
|
|
|
|
- LyX requires now python 2.2 to work properly.
|
|
|
|
- Display LaTeX package checking results faster during configuration.
|
|
|
|
- Log the output of configure.py to a log file configure.log.
|
|
|
|
- Do automatic reconfiguration even when running in batch mode (bug 2741).
|
|
|
|
- Change the encoding of some python scripts from iso-8859-15 to
|
|
iso-8859-1. The former causes problems with embedded python.
|
|
|
|
- Remove outdated development tools and outdated LyXConfig.LyX.in.
|
|
|
|
- Remove in the documentation all references to reLyX, which has been
|
|
replaced by tex2LyX.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in version 1.4.2?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
** Updates
|
|
|
|
- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
|
|
[Windows and Mac OS X only] (bug 2017).
|
|
|
|
- Add a new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry
|
|
in the Document menu) to change whether the file will be compressed
|
|
on disk or not.
|
|
|
|
- Update the German, Hungarian, Italian (bug 2650), Polish, Slovak,
|
|
Spanish and Turkish localizations of the interface.
|
|
|
|
- Update translations of documentation for German (all) and Hungarian
|
|
(Introduction, splash document, new tutorial examples).
|
|
|
|
- Add support for Austrian (new spelling) as a document language.
|
|
|
|
- Add the "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format. This new output format produces
|
|
.tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including figure conversion
|
|
to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.
|
|
|
|
- Add biographynophoto style to IEEEtran.layout; add a new text class for
|
|
International Journal of Modern Physics C (and update support for
|
|
IJMP D).
|
|
|
|
- Add buttons for \overset and \underset to the math panel (bug 2533).
|
|
|
|
- Add support for the dvipdfmx converter.
|
|
|
|
- Add tgif->ppm and tgif->png converters for preview of tgif figures.
|
|
|
|
- Add native support for \intop and \ointop. (Display only; not in
|
|
the math panel yet.)
|
|
|
|
** Bug fixes
|
|
|
|
* User Interface:
|
|
|
|
- Much better performance when using natbib/jurabib citations (bug 2460).
|
|
|
|
- Much better performance of screen updating in LyX/Mac, and with an
|
|
acceptable UI.
|
|
|
|
- Don't jump back to the previous cursor position when trying to click on
|
|
an inset (bug 2526).
|
|
|
|
- Fix several cursor movement functions when initiating a selection
|
|
(bugs 2119 and 2259, and a crash).
|
|
|
|
- Disable saving of bookmarks in mathed because it is not yet supported
|
|
and makes LyX crash (bug 2597).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when pasting contents from the clipboard to a tabular
|
|
(bug 2603).
|
|
|
|
- When pasting contents to a tabular with the middle mouse button, the
|
|
language could sometimes be changed. This is fixed now.
|
|
|
|
- Text copied from an ERT box no longer has the pseudo "latex" language
|
|
(bug 2476).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when selecting and deleting "blue" paragraph break in
|
|
change tracking mode.
|
|
|
|
- Set change tracking marks properly when copying between documents
|
|
with different change tracking status (bug 2207).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when reading documents containing bogus change tracking
|
|
markup due to the bug above (bug 2614).
|
|
|
|
- Fix any remaining "ghost" empty paragraphs when selecting and deleting
|
|
multiple paragraphs (bug 2516).
|
|
|
|
- Fix the display of horizontal fill which appears at the end of a line
|
|
(bug 2509).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when changing document class while the cursor is inside a
|
|
table.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when there is a syntax error in a keyboard map file (bug 2604).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash on exit on MacOS X, and the well known "Mutex destroy failure"
|
|
error message on Linux (qt frontend, bugs 2549 and 1029).
|
|
|
|
- Paint the tabular background (bug fix).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a bug where the spellchecker doesn't pop up the dialog window for
|
|
the first misspelled word (bug 2218).
|
|
|
|
- Fix spell checking in tables (bug 2675).
|
|
|
|
- Cosmetic fixes to the document dialog (Qt only).
|
|
|
|
- Reduce the right margin on screen from 30 pixels to 10.
|
|
|
|
* Math editor:
|
|
|
|
- Fix the metrics of AMS array environments like bmatrix, vmatrix etc.
|
|
(bug 2036).
|
|
|
|
- Fix undo in matrices.
|
|
|
|
- Fix a crash when deleting the last row of an equation (bug 2655).
|
|
|
|
* Document input/output:
|
|
|
|
- Convert definitions of itemize and enumerate environments in old layout
|
|
files correctly.
|
|
|
|
- Fix the conversion of minipages (default height and inner vertical
|
|
position) from LyX 1.3 documents.
|
|
|
|
- Make sure that the amsmath package is used in LaTeX output when
|
|
using the AMS-specific commands \xleftarrow, \xrightarrow or the
|
|
array constructs split, gathered, aligned and alignedat (bug 2149).
|
|
|
|
- Load the tipa package automatically when needed.
|
|
|
|
- Properly strike out deleted math formulas when change tracking is
|
|
active (bug 2214).
|
|
|
|
- Don't get confused by 0-Characters in MikTeX logfiles anymore.
|
|
|
|
- Always honor the "Requirement" tag in External Template Definitions.
|
|
|
|
- Fix tex2lyx to handle whitespace in front of required arguments (bug 2546).
|
|
|
|
- Update templates and examples to the latest file format.
|
|
|
|
- Enable jpeg graphics whose suffix is in capital letters (.JPG) work with
|
|
pdflatex (bug 2235).
|
|
|
|
- Fix a LaTeX crash on multi-paragraph boxes.
|
|
|
|
- Fix LaTeX errors with memoir and makeindex (bug 2623).
|
|
|
|
* Miscellaneous:
|
|
|
|
- Replace the old sh version of lib/configure with the new python version
|
|
lib/configure.py. The TexFiles.sh script (which crashed on Windows)
|
|
has also been pythonified.
|
|
|
|
- It is longer necessary to run lib/configure.py in the main LyX
|
|
support directory.
|
|
|
|
- Reading of configuration now goes like this: LyX first reads the file
|
|
lyxrc.dist (if it exists). If lib/configure.py is newer than
|
|
any of lyxrc.defaults, textclass.lst or packages.lst, it is re-run
|
|
before loading lyxrc.defaults and preferences.
|
|
|
|
- Automatically use fonts in the fonts/ subdirectory of the LyX support
|
|
directory on Windows.
|
|
|
|
- When compiling with --with-version-suffix on Windows, do not
|
|
rename the executable files.
|
|
|
|
- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx when compiling with
|
|
--with-version-suffix (bug 2285).
|
|
|
|
- Fix lib/configure.py to find tex2lyx if the path to it contains spaces.
|
|
|
|
- Use the clean_dvi.py script on Windows not only in the installer but also
|
|
in the source package.
|
|
|
|
- Fix the code to find the localization of the interface on Windows
|
|
and Mac OS X.
|
|
|
|
- Fix hyphens in man pages.
|
|
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- Replace the \cygwin_path_fix_needed preference with the better named
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\tex_expects_windows_paths; this is auto-detected and matters only on
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Windows.
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- Remove the --enable-compression-support option of configure. Compression
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support via zlib is now a requirement.
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- Fix compilation on DragonFly BSD.
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What's new in version 1.4.1?
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----------------------------
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** Updates
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- Enable breaking and merging of paragraphs in change tracking mode
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(bug 880).
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- Update Basque, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Spanish
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localizations; import 1.3.7 localizations for Finnish, Slovak,
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Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Dutch and Turkish.
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- Update Spanish translation of the tutorial; update German
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translation of the Tutorial and Introduction.
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- Document the packages fancybox, prettyref, preview and varioref in
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LaTeXConfig.lyx.
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** Bug fixes
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* Document input/output:
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- Fix LaTeX error with Address layout in AMS classes (bug 2363).
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- Fix LaTeX error when \labelitemi is undefined (bug 2053).
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- Fix LaTeX error when inserting a graphic in a section heading or a
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caption (bug 675).
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- Translate \verb commands correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2236).
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- Truncate temporary file names that are too long for MikTeX's pdflatex.
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- Parse \tag and \tag* commands correctly in tex2lyx and mathed (bug 2234).
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- Import fixed width table columns correctly in tex2lyx (bug 2290).
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- Convert old LyX documents with a float list at the end correctly in
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lyx2lyx (bug 2245).
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- Fix crash when generating LaTeX dependencies on Cygwin.
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- Fix wrong path_prefix handling in Cygwin builds (bug 2344)
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- Set search path for included files correctly on Cygwin (bug 2409).
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- Better layout file conversion (bug 2355)
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- Fix convertion of old documents with SGML paragraphs in lyx-docbook
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documents (bug 2501). Note that this fix is incomplete and the
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complete fix will go in 1.4.2
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* Math editor:
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- Fix crash when deleting row/column in a math array.
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- Fix crash with middle-mouse paste in math.
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- Fix delay when exiting from a math inset (bug 2217).
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- Fix middle-mouse paste in math that went both inside and outside
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math (bug 2485).
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- Fix positioning of cursor when clicking to right of last nestinset
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in a cell.
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- Fix: deleting superscript also deleted subscript (bug 2362).
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- Fix conversion of selection to superscript, subscript or mbox inset (math).
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- Fix drawing of \boxed and \fbox in formulas (bug 2361).
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- Fixed broken math panel sub/super script UI
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* User Interface:
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- Fix slowness in rendering inside insets, especially on the Mac (bug 2195)
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- Convert line endings for external copy/paste on OS X (bug 1955).
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- Fix bookmarks and links to LaTeX errors which were broken after paragraph
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deletion/insertion (bugs 2284 and 2242).
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- Disable saving when document is unchanged (bug 2313).
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- Fix jurabib error with Spanish documents (bug 2365).
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- Propose sensible style files for bibtex, depending on whether plain,
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natbib or jurabib is used (bug 2322).
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- Avoid bogus values like -1000 for section numbering depth when using
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classes without a sectioning structure (part of bug 2355).
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- Create a more sensible default label in table and figure captions (bug 1999).
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- Do not skip first change in "Merge changes..." dialog (bug 2212).
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- Improve handling of the labeling environment in KOMA letters (bug 2246).
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- Update screen when cursor is between two spaces and goes to
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line/document start/end (bug 2298).
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- Adjust cursor after backspace in change tracking mode (bug 2185).
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- Fix cursor positioning in tabulars (bug 2006).
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- Fix copy and paste for multiple cells (bug 2377).
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- Fix drawing of inset buttons (bug 2328).
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- Small optimizations in the way the Qt frontend updates the screen.
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- Use the Qt wide scroll wheel setting (bug 2175).
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- Remove zombie wheel mouse spin box from the Qt preferences dialog (bug 783).
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- Fix Find&Replace with sciword bindings.
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- Prevent non-standard paragraph layouts in charstyle insets
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- Reading the bounding box from eps files does not fail anymore when the
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file contains additional spaces (bug 1235)
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- Fix LaTeX error for zipped graphics (bug 2231).
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* Configuration/Installation:
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- Don't use the -mms-bitfields compiler switch on mingw and cygwin, since
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Q..3/ does not use it either in the default configuration.
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- Compilation fix (gtk frontend) for gcc 4.1.
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What's new in version 1.4.0?
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----------------------------
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As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
|
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visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
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some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
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** Improved user interface
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LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
|
|
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
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menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
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the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
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|
classic UI) is still available, for now.
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It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
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editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
|
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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.
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|
|
|
Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
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toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
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table.
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|
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** Change tracking
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This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
|
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makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
|
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changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
|
|
changes.
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** 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
|
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parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
|
|
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
|
|
|
|
** Character styles
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|
|
For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
|
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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.
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** Branches
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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?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
|
|
release an exciting one. One of the major projects that has been going
|
|
on behind the scenes is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are
|
|
glad to announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
|
|
LyX now comes in two flavours: Qt-LyX and xforms-LyX!
|
|
|
|
Although this is the most visible change in version 1.3, this should not
|
|
hide the fact that the `under the hood' changes to the code have again
|
|
been very important. A detailed list can be found below.
|
|
|
|
** Qt frontend
|
|
|
|
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
|
|
either Qt 2.x or 3.x and is mostly feature complete. Note that some
|
|
of the dialogs are slightly different in design, but are generally
|
|
functionally equivalent.
|
|
|
|
Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
|
|
latex-xft-fonts package at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib to get maths
|
|
symbols displayed properly.
|
|
|
|
** Gnome frontend
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
|
|
stopped recently and we have therefore chosen to disable it. We
|
|
strongly invite anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the
|
|
developer's list.
|
|
|
|
** Instant preview
|
|
|
|
preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant previews"
|
|
of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual rendering of the
|
|
LaTeX in the document. Its project home page can be found at
|
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex. With the help of David
|
|
Kastrup, the author, LyX 1.3.0 can harness this functionality to
|
|
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
|
|
figures. This feature can be immensely useful, ensuring that the
|
|
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
|
|
preview is only displayed (if enabled) when you're not editing the
|
|
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
|
|
|
|
** Math editor
|
|
|
|
There have been a few visible and some not-so-visible changes. On the
|
|
visible side we have better visual feedback regarding the structure of
|
|
a formula, showing the nesting by small purple decorations in the
|
|
formula itself and revealing the names of the nesting levels in the
|
|
minibuffer. There is now native support for symbols from the wasy
|
|
package containing e.g. the zodiac symbols. New also is the internal
|
|
structure of font changes which are now proper "insets", just like
|
|
anything else from a square root to an array. This not only simplifies
|
|
the code greatly but also allows the same editing tricks as for the
|
|
"regular" math. However, it was not possible to tweak the visible
|
|
behaviour to mimic 1.2 in all cases, so this might take some time to
|
|
get accustomed to. On the pro side, the new structure allowed
|
|
support for LaTeX's \mbox and \fbox to be implemented and general
|
|
"switching back to text mode within math", so a lot of "evil red text"
|
|
trickery is not needed anymore. The most visible changes are the following:
|
|
|
|
- Pressing { and } will insert LaTeX's \{ and \} which show up as { }
|
|
in the printout. To get LaTeX's {} nesting, you need to type \{.
|
|
|
|
- Fonts changes now really nest. Repeated application of a font change
|
|
will result in nested font changes! To remove a font change without
|
|
removing the "contents", it is now possible to "pull the argument"
|
|
like in other insets, i.e. put the cursor in the first position of
|
|
the inset and press 'backspace'.
|
|
|
|
** Reading old files
|
|
|
|
LyX now has a new script lyx2lyx which enables the reading of any file
|
|
produced by LyX versions as old as 0.12. Work is in progress on files
|
|
created with LyX 0.10 (LyX 1.4 time-line) and still older files are
|
|
in the forge. Basically if lyx wrote it LyX will read it. :-)
|
|
|
|
There is also a strong demand to be able to read files produced by
|
|
_newer_ versions of LyX. While lyx2lyx has the infrastructure in place
|
|
to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to
|
|
1.2.x, for example) have not yet been written.
|
|
|
|
** Miscellaneous changes
|
|
|
|
- LyX now automatically uses TeX fonts for screen rendering of math
|
|
equations if they are available (it is not necessary anymore to
|
|
configure your font server).
|
|
|
|
- The Insert>Short Title allows the addition of an optional text
|
|
for section headings and captions that is designed to be used in
|
|
tables of contents.
|
|
|
|
- The Insert>Float>Floatflt Figure menu item restores the ability
|
|
to wrap text around an image which was present in 1.1.6 and
|
|
removed in 1.2.0
|
|
|
|
- If you configure with --with-pspell (which uses the PSpell library for
|
|
spellchecking), you will be able to automatically spell-check
|
|
multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries
|
|
installed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in version 1.2.3?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug
|
|
where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null
|
|
special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries).
|
|
Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed.
|
|
|
|
** Updates
|
|
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- updated italian User Guide
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- updated french localization
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What's new in version 1.2.2?
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----------------------------
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LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
|
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1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
|
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1.2.1.
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** Updates
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- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
|
|
advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
|
|
support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
|
|
|
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- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
|
|
when dragging the mouse)
|
|
|
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- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
|
|
particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
|
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require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
|
|
found)
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|
|
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- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
|
|
automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
|
|
who are not aware that it is needed
|
|
|
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- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
|
|
keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
|
|
|
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- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
|
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other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
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- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
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- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
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- update sciword bindings
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- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
|
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Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
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- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
|
|
the interface
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|
What's new in version 1.2.1?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
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LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
|
|
1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
|
|
developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
|
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1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
|
|
recommended.
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|
|
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** Updates
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- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
|
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when this gets released)
|
|
|
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- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
|
|
the performance problems
|
|
|
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- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
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|
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- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
|
|
table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
|
|
seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
|
|
|
|
- it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
|
|
"document defaults"
|
|
|
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- when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
|
|
float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
|
|
help entering of ERT insets)
|
|
|
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- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
|
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|
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- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
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|
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- better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
|
|
|
|
- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
|
|
obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
|
|
M-p asterisk 6)
|
|
|
|
- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
|
|
|
|
- support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
|
|
keys
|
|
|
|
- it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
|
|
line and have this file created for you
|
|
|
|
- new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
|
|
heb-article and hollywood textclasses
|
|
|
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|
|
What's new in version 1.2.0?
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.2.0 is the version where many of changes in the 1.1.x series
|
|
really begin to pay off. It should prove to be a very solid base for
|
|
further developments. As of this version, we use (yet another) new
|
|
versioning scheme: next major version will be 1.3.0, and 1.2.x will
|
|
be just incremental fixes (like the `fix' series used to be for 1.1.5
|
|
and 1.1.6).
|
|
|
|
This version sees the introduction of the so-called `new' insets,
|
|
which can contain arbitrary text. As a consequence, many new features
|
|
are now possible:
|
|
|
|
- Floats, footnotes and margin notes are now real insets. The
|
|
positional parameters of figure, table and algorithm floats can be set
|
|
float-by-float
|
|
|
|
- Most problems with the new table inset of 1.1.6 have been addressed
|
|
(memory consumption, file bloat, spell-checking, search and replace...).
|
|
Better longtable header/footer support was implemented.
|
|
|
|
- TeX mode has been superseded by the ERT inset, which is foldable, or
|
|
can be shown inline
|
|
|
|
- Notes inset can now contain arbitrary LyX constructs; they will not
|
|
appear in the output.
|
|
|
|
- New minipage inset
|
|
|
|
Note that another consequence of these changes is that older LyX
|
|
versions will almost certainly fail to read files produced by LyX
|
|
1.2.0.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other more traditional insets have been improved too:
|
|
|
|
- New graphics inset with support for hassle-free inclusion of various
|
|
image formats (GIF, JPEG, PNG and EPS by default) and a new
|
|
rendering scheme that should fix the bugs we had with the older
|
|
ghostscript method.
|
|
|
|
- Support for natbib for bibliography citations
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The math editor has been mostly rewritten. This begun as a general
|
|
cleanup, but it turns out that many new features happened in this
|
|
process, among which:
|
|
|
|
- many of the known bugs or annoyances in mathed have been fixed.
|
|
|
|
- possibility to display all standard latex and amsmath symbols (and
|
|
also the \mathcal, \mathbb, and \mathfrak fonts)as long as the
|
|
relevant fonts have been made available to the X server
|
|
|
|
- support for many amsmath features
|
|
Commands: xrightarrow, xleftarrow, substack, underset, dddot
|
|
over/under arrows (e.g. underleftarrow).
|
|
Environments: align, alignat, xalignat, xxalignat, multline, gather
|
|
split, gathered, aligned, cases, subarray, pmatrix, bmatrix, vmatrix,
|
|
Vmatrix
|
|
|
|
- Preliminary support for xymatrix
|
|
|
|
- Support for horizontal and vertical lines in arrays.
|
|
|
|
- Improvements to the parser
|
|
|
|
- Improvements to math text mode
|
|
|
|
- (Better) support for nested macros
|
|
|
|
- Enable size changes to arrays after creation (add/delete rows/columns)
|
|
|
|
- Support for changing font or displaystyle on a selection
|
|
|
|
- GUI support provided for many more features
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other changes include:
|
|
|
|
- Support for windows with cygwin has been incorporated into the main
|
|
distribution.
|
|
|
|
- Most of the dialogs have been rewritten in the GUI-I framework, and
|
|
improved in the process
|
|
|
|
- The kde frontend has been dropped in favor of a new qt2 frontend.
|
|
Note that only the xforms front is really operational as of this
|
|
version and alternative frontends are expected for 1.3.0
|
|
|
|
- The citation dialog has a search facility, with support for regular
|
|
expressions.
|
|
|
|
- New ligature break special character, useful for words like
|
|
"shelfful", or many german words
|
|
|
|
- Support for parsing preamble when converting LaTeX files. Along
|
|
with changes in the LaTeX production of alignment options, this
|
|
improves round-trip work where you export a LyX document as
|
|
LaTeX, and later reimport it from LaTeX.
|
|
|
|
- Updated documentation
|
|
|
|
- a few more document classes for journals: dtk, ltugboat, spie and
|
|
svprobth.
|
|
|
|
- Support for setting bookmarks and jumping to them
|
|
|
|
- It is possible to cycle between a label and its references.
|
|
|
|
- Preliminary support for multiple bibliographies
|
|
|
|
- Babel can be disabled
|
|
|
|
- A thesaurus facility (English only)
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix4?
|
|
------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.1.6fix4 is a bugfix release.
|
|
|
|
New features:
|
|
|
|
- add support for latin3, latin4 and latin9 encodings
|
|
|
|
- change the encoding for estonian from latin4 to latin1, since it
|
|
appears to be more suitable.
|
|
|
|
- add support for ae fonts (emulation of T1 encoding with OT1 fonts).
|
|
This is useful for creating pdf files in T1 encoding
|
|
|
|
- add support for dvipdfm
|
|
|
|
- when passing a file name as argument from command line, the
|
|
extension `.lyx' is added if necessary
|
|
|
|
- insert error insets in the documents when there have been unknown
|
|
tokens in the file
|
|
|
|
- new class `kluwer'; update to hollywood class
|
|
|
|
- the class encts has been renamed to entcs (stupid typo!) and
|
|
slightly updated
|
|
|
|
- updates to the introduction document and the italian user guide
|
|
|
|
- updates to the russian, finnish and hebrew localisations
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix3?
|
|
------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.1.6fix3 is a bugfix release.
|
|
|
|
New features:
|
|
|
|
- documentation has been updated to remove errors due to interface
|
|
change
|
|
|
|
- new italian user guide; updated french localisation of menus and
|
|
documentation; new dutch translations of some examples
|
|
|
|
- the `history' and `revert' functionalities have been implemented in CVS
|
|
support
|
|
|
|
- it is now possible to enter directly characters in an encoding
|
|
different from latin1 (providing one is using a correct screen font)
|
|
|
|
- new encts class for Elsevier Science's Electronic Notes in
|
|
Theoretical Computer Science
|
|
|
|
- new cv class for writing curriculum vitae
|
|
|
|
- new extarticle, extreport, extbook and extletter classes, which are
|
|
versions of the normal classes with more font sizes available
|
|
|
|
- the aapaper class has been complemented with a aa class for the A&A
|
|
LaTeX document class version 5.0, which is slightly incompatible
|
|
with the older version
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix2?
|
|
------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.1.6fix2 is a bugfix release.
|
|
|
|
New features:
|
|
|
|
- add language support in docbook; better support for verbatim text.
|
|
|
|
- the --with-lyx-suffix flag introduced in 1.1.6fix1 has been renamed
|
|
to --with-version-suffix; it can now be used without argument (to
|
|
install as lyx-1.1.6fix2)
|
|
|
|
- many translations updated; big french documentation overhaul; german
|
|
documentation update.
|
|
|
|
- preliminary Thai support; new serbo-croatian support
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.6fix1?
|
|
------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
LyX 1.1.6fix1 is a bugfix release.
|
|
|
|
New features:
|
|
|
|
- updated documentation for version 1.1.6; new french documentation
|
|
translations; updated danish translation of the interface.
|
|
|
|
- better support for ukrainian language
|
|
|
|
- non working --with-lyxname configure option has been replaced by
|
|
working --with-lyx-suffix.
|
|
|
|
- in default cua bindings, change C-k from font-noun to
|
|
line-delete-forward.
|
|
|
|
- Add the prefix "key-" to the default keys for bibliography insets.
|
|
|
|
- Show both key and label of a bibliography inset.
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.6?
|
|
--------------------------------
|
|
|
|
As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
|
|
of new code: in particular, more than half of the changes described in
|
|
the ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) concern LyX 1.1.6!
|
|
|
|
Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
|
|
new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
|
|
GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
|
|
from the older development version:
|
|
|
|
- many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
|
|
process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
|
|
popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
|
|
in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
|
|
have been overhauled.
|
|
|
|
- LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
|
|
lyxrc settings.
|
|
|
|
- the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
|
|
display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
|
|
|
|
- it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
|
|
|
|
- last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
|
|
LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
|
|
will give you an idea of what is happening.
|
|
|
|
Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
|
|
|
|
- the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
|
|
object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
|
|
inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
|
|
cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
|
|
layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
|
|
not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
|
|
is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
|
|
|
|
While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
|
|
easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
|
|
features may not work right now, but at least it is much
|
|
better than before.
|
|
|
|
- new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
|
|
inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
|
|
applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
|
|
include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
|
|
images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
|
|
rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
|
|
|
|
- The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
|
|
viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
|
|
rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
|
|
import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new import/export
|
|
formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external programs or scripts
|
|
in lyxrc settings
|
|
(note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
|
|
|
|
- LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
|
|
|
|
- The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use in a
|
|
document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1) and
|
|
Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
|
|
iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
|
|
have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
|
|
The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
|
|
|
|
- Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
|
|
|
|
- included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
|
|
docbook-book.
|
|
|
|
- PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
|
|
largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
|
|
|
|
And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
|
|
mentioned here for your information
|
|
|
|
- the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
|
|
(this can be changed in preferences).
|
|
|
|
- new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
|
|
-height, etc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.5?
|
|
--------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Lots of internal code rewritten, fixed, changed and added.
|
|
We are using the C++ Standard Library more each day.
|
|
This will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain
|
|
and expand.
|
|
We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect
|
|
this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6.
|
|
|
|
User-visible changes:
|
|
|
|
- Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only.
|
|
|
|
- New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents.
|
|
|
|
- New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references.
|
|
|
|
- multilingual documents (preliminary support)
|
|
|
|
- Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt
|
|
only and is likely to improve in future versions.
|
|
|
|
- Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the
|
|
command-line/window:
|
|
paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float]
|
|
|
|
- New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the !
|
|
in the margin for margin notes has been removed).
|
|
|
|
- End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense.
|
|
|
|
- labels are now editable (not in equations, though).
|
|
|
|
- Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!).
|
|
|
|
- The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that
|
|
earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have
|
|
errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue.
|
|
(And you probably had the error always.)
|
|
|
|
- Better definition for LyXList style.
|
|
|
|
- hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes
|
|
LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy)
|
|
|
|
- support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support)
|
|
|
|
- A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with
|
|
1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected
|
|
spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL
|
|
support is of course not supported in older versions.
|
|
|
|
- Removed support for XForms older than 0.88.
|
|
|
|
- Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore
|
|
(The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse)
|
|
|
|
- New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to
|
|
use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.)
|
|
|
|
- new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner
|
|
screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created
|
|
by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether
|
|
lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.4?
|
|
--------------------------------
|
|
|
|
More internals have been rethought. In particular, most of the file IO
|
|
routines of LyX have been rewritten to use real C++ streams. Many
|
|
changes have also been done to help compile LyX with Sun CC 5.0 and
|
|
SGI STL 3.2.
|
|
|
|
In the user-visible department, we find:
|
|
|
|
- new command line option -x (or --execute) and -e (or --export). Now
|
|
direct conversion from .lyx to .tex (.dvi, .ps, ...) is possible
|
|
('lyx file.lyx --export latex') Unfortunately, X is still needed and
|
|
the GUI pops up during the process...
|
|
|
|
- better placement of accents for characters that LyX draws by itself;
|
|
|
|
- improved translations, in particular in Finnish (overhauled UI
|
|
translation), Dutch (tutorial and examples), German
|
|
|
|
- new configure flag --with-lyxname which allows to choose the name
|
|
under which lyx is installed. Default is "lyx", of course. It used
|
|
to be possible to do this with --program-suffix, but the later has
|
|
in fact a different meaning for autoconf.
|
|
|
|
And of course, a lot of old bugs have been replaced by new ones ;)
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's new in LyX version 1.1.3?
|
|
--------------------------------
|
|
|
|
More LyX internals have been cleaned-up in this version, but the usual
|
|
small number of user-visible changes have appeared:
|
|
|
|
- LyX is not able anymore to read some old files using latex inset
|
|
(this should not be a problem as these were already not generated by
|
|
LyX 0.12.0). Use LyX 1.0.4 to read files containing those.
|
|
|
|
- The first line of a .lyx file does not contain anymore the file
|
|
creator name and the date of creation; this was causing various
|
|
problems.
|
|
|
|
- the -dbg command line switch is enhanced. For example, "-dbg lyxrc"
|
|
works now.
|
|
|
|
- Slightly better handling of dependency tracking for bibtex files.
|
|
|
|
- The screen representations of \varepsilon and \epsilon have been
|
|
swapped. Now \epsilon shows as red text, and \varepsilon shows as it
|
|
should. This is of course a controversial change (since many people
|
|
will find that their lyx workscreen is suddenly full of red), but done
|
|
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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--------------------------------
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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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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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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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--------------------------------------------------
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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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