lyx_mirror/status.23x

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This file describes what has been done in the preparation of LyX 2.3.3.
All comments are welcome.

We try to group things by topic and in decreasing order of importance.
Please feel free to re-arrange if that seems like a good idea.


What's new
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** Updates:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Preserving .lyx file permission when saving on linux systems (Qt5-only).

- Properly implement CJKutf8 (which never really worked as intended).


* MISCELLANEOUS



* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS



* USER INTERFACE

- Allow external editing of preamble and ERT (bugs 991, 7404).

- Allow nameref in math references (bug 9798).

- Fix renaming of citation references after changing bibliography key
  (bug 6494).

- Make tab movement visible (bug 10733).

- Add "Reset" and "Reset All Fields" buttons to Text Properties
  dialog (bug 11415).

- Add "Reset to Default" and "Reset All" buttons to Color Preferences
  (bug 10062).

- Insert new graphics inset on the correct cursor position.

- Fix regression where spaces are disappearing when editing text (bug 11412).

- The function textstyle-update now only changes explicitly stated font
  attributes (bug 11111).

- Fix bad error message (bug 11486).

- Improve performance on Windows with lots of math insets or very long
  math formulas (bug 11546).

- Add Shortcut (Command-0) for workarwa zoom reset to mac.bind.

- Improve some icons (bug 11476).

- Improve line breaking of Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. There are still
  issues, though (bug 10299).


* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The Bulgarian user interface localization has been updated and re-enabled.

- Updates to the Arabic, Czech, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese,
  Russian, Slovak, Swedish, and Ukrainian localizations.

- Minor rework of the thesis example file in order to clear some confusion about
  the included bibliography (bug 10748).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION




** Bug fixes:
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* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Added support for aastex62 (bug 11397)

- Fix problems with non-ASCII characters in path with recent LaTeX versions
  (bug 11146).

- Fix parsing of math-macro optional arguments after save-reopen (bug 11346).

- Fix handling of InPreamble styles in insets (bug 11557).

- Fix problem with wrongly inserted separator.

- Beamer: automatically nest column in columns.

- Fix Autonests and IsAutonestedBy layout tags with specific layout names
  (with space, underbar and enquoted).

- Fix SVG to PNG image conversion problem with inkscape on Mac.
  On-screen display of SVG graphics was broken for e.g. users guide.

- Fix paragraph alignment in RTL when using polyglossia (bidi) (bug 11399).

- Fix text direction of namerefs in RTL scripts when using polyglossia (bidi)
  (bug 11518).

- Use proper listings font styles with polyglossia (bidi) and RTL (bug 11554).

- Fix LaTeX export of query strings in Hyperlinks (bugs 11482, 11511).

- Fix breakage caused by commas in the caption of listings (bug 11484).

- Fix LaTeX error caused by Control key shortcut inset on the Mac (remainder
  of bug 10641).

- Correctly add the branch name suffix when the stem of the filename
  contains a dot (bug 11490).

- Load required packages to correctly typeset unicode symbols entered
  in math mode (bug 11526).

- Only write btUnits if we have a bibliography (bug 11562).

- Fix paragraph break in particular cases (bug 11528).


* USER INTERFACE

- Rename emergency file when user wants to save it (bug 11464).

- Fix reloading of local layout file (bug 11120).

- Check for dirty hidden child documents when closing (bug 11405).

- Fix selection of unmarked RtL characters with Qt 5.11 (bug 11284).

- Fix on-screen display of macros whose name is a single non-letter symbol
  (part of bug 11158).

- Fix problem with collapsing insets after searches.

- Do not swallow backspaces in custom viewer/editor paths (bug 9622).

- Fix broken space dialog in mathed (bug 7747).

- Fix undo in some cases involving nesting (bug 11292).

- Fix some display problems in the Text Properties dialog (bug 11385).

- Accept/reject changes inside selection only if there are changes (bug
  10338).

- Fix missing TOC update (and related bugs) when setting default master (bug
  11422).

- Properly update bibliography information (with bibliography environment)
  before opening the citation dialog (bug 4899).

- Fix problem with undo of document settings (bug 9004).

- Fix size of layout combo (bug 6096).

- Completion popup context menu now properly responds to Esc key.

- Fix document updating issues with split view (bug 11354).

- Fix cases where text is offset vertically (bug 10532, 10767).

- Display of start/end labels of paragraphs in insets (bug 11425).

- Fix crash when using inset-select-all in tabular.

- Only allow toggling math limits when it makes sense.

- Repair (de)activation of plural, capitalize, etc, for refstyle.

- Fix display of gather environment in leqno mode (bug 11324).

- Fix handling of labels with change tracking (bug 6563).

- Expand environment variables when modifying the PATH prefix.

- Fix language of Help documents when LyX UI language is different from
  OS UI language.

- Fix many drawing glitches in the IPA icons.

- Fix crash when disabling math preview (bug 11498).

- Quote filenames when calling gunzip and avoid a crash when the filename
  of a compressed file does not end with a proper extension (bug 4269).

- Fix behavior of (un)setting all tabular borders (bug 11382).

- Place the indentation bars correctly in full-screen mode (bug 11286).

- Fix display of formal table bottom line with multirows (bug 11445).

- Fix left/right border UI when toggling formal table style (bug 9835).

- Fix bold-like characters when selecting bidi text (bug 11198).

- Make sure there are markers when editing variable-size delimiters (bug 11516).

- Fix pre- and postnote fields in year-only biblatex-natbib citations.

- Get rid of spurious empty entry in list of equations when creating new
  formula (bug 11423).

- Handle some cases where the change bar in the margin did not get updated 
  (bug 11396).

- Handle some cases where underline across insets did not painted (bug 11402).

- Fix minimal height of delimiters inset (bug 11337).


* INTERNALS

- Fix reconfigure issues on Windows in the presence of an external
  python installation.



* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- The Korean splash.lyx can now be compiled out-of-the-box.

- Fix description of change bar module.



* LYX2LYX

- Speed up some lyx2lyx conversions (bug 11200).

- Fix routine that left some old parameters unremoved (bug 11373).


* TEX2LYX


* LYXHTML

- Take account of 'free spacing' (bug 11432).


* ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE

- Pay attention to layout modules in Advanced F&R (bug 11138).


* BUILD/INSTALLATION

- Fix build with boost 1.69 (bug 11349).

- Update bundled boost distribution to 1.68.

- Fix warnings with clang 7.