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What's new in version 1.4.5.1?
------------------------------

The only change over release 1.4.5 is the addition to the distribution
of one file necessary to read and write lyx 1.5 files. Otherwise this
is the same announce of version 1.4.5 with the references to release
updated.

** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- Update Hungarian and Italian localizations of the interface.


** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Don't skip lines after noweb chunks in tex2lyx (bug 3052).

- Fix bug when entering relative length (like page%) as margin
  settings (bug 3416).

- Fix Date external template in windows (bug 3241).

- Fix babel bug triggered by MarkBoth in the IEEEtran.layout (bug
  3510).

- Fix ordering of layouts in beamer textclass (bug 3141).

* USER INTERFACE:

- Fix bug where moving the last section up in the toc dialog eats the
  last paragraph (bug 3303).

- Fix crash when using "all-insets-toggle" lfun on a file with 
  math insets (bug 3358).

- Fix crash when undoing ctrl-<minus> in mathed (bug 3590).

- Fix crash if the thesaurus fails on startup (bug 2691).

- Handle undo correctly when inserting a plain text file (bug 3204).

- Fix misplaced cursor when clicking at the end of a line (bug 3310).

- Make it possible to reset itemize bullets to their original state
  (bug 3312).

- Fix display of Theorem-like environments when in appendix (bug 3351).

- Fix conflict with globally installed math fonts, for ex. from
  Scientific Workplace (bug 3962, windows only).

- Properly keep existing previews when pasting formulas (bug 1486).

- Fix display of math root inset when the exponent contains large
  things (bug 3295).

- Fix display of the \overset math macro when the first argument has a
  non-zero descent.

- Set a default image size value (bug 2458).

- Get ProvidesNatbib working correctly, esp. for egs.layout.

- Fix undo for quotation marks (bug 3439).

- Fix undo for special characters.

- Fix gui for big delimiters.

- Fix wrong LaTeX-output when using the backslash "\" as math
  delimiter (bug 3458) (Qt frontend only).

- Fix generation of linuxdoc manpages (bug 2966).

- Fix example for docbook-article.

- Fix table rotate toolbar buttons images (bug 3525).

- Fix display of "Acknowledgments" environment in elsart document
  class (bug 3931).

* DOCUMENTATION

- Fix description of booktabs tables in the EmbeddedObjects manual
  (bug 3736).

- Fix broken link to IEEETran.cls in LaTeXConfiguration (bug 848).

- Fix that Slovak userguide couldn't be typeset.

* BUILD/INSTALLATION:

- Make LyX/Mac recognize correctly newer versions of teTeX.

- Allow automake 1.10 for building.

- Require python 2.3 (due to lyx2lyx backport from 1.5.0), version
  2.3.4 is required to read lyx 1.5.x documents (due to a bug in older
  2.3.x python releases).


What's new in version 1.4.4?
---------------------------- 

** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.

- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.

- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
  (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
  that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
  if you want to use this feature.

- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.

- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
  presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
  by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
  Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
  file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)

- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).

* USER INTERFACE:

- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.

- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active.

- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
  layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
  extra toolbar.

- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).

- Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
  characters on a qwerty keyboard).

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
  in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
  floats, notes, and boxes.
  
- Updated Intro and Extended manual.

- New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
  Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.

- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
  Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
  (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.


** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- 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.

- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
  and alignedat.

- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.

- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.

- 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).

- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.

- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read 
  again.

- 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).

- Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).

- Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).

- Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
  (bug 2843).

- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.

- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
  files.

- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).

- Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.

- Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)

- Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files

- 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?
----------------------------

This is a bug fix release that improves performance, stability and
native OS support. Notable new features include:

- LyX now automatically uses file viewers and editors set at OS level
  [Windows and Mac OS X only].

- The windows installer has been completely rewritten.

- A new function buffer-toggle-compression (and corresponding entry in
  the Document menu) has been added to change whether the file will be
  compressed on disk or not.

- A "LaTeX (pdflatex)" output format has been added. This new output
  format produces .tex files that are suitable for pdflatex, including
  figure conversion to png, pdf or jpeg instead of eps.


What's new in version 1.4.1?
----------------------------

This is a bug fix release, but some of the bugs were big. In
particular:

 - fix the huge memory consumption and corresponding sluggishness with
   documents containing many graphics or `instant preview' snippets.

 - fix slow screen update with nested insets, particularly with
   LyX/Mac.

 - fix the delay when exiting from a math inset.

 - let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.

Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows installer.


What's new in version 1.4.0?
----------------------------

As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.

** Improved user interface

LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
classic UI) is still available, for now.

It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
available: one for tables, and one for math. 

Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
table.

** Change tracking

This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
changes. 

** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx

The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.

** Character styles

For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
styles. 


** Branches

The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.

That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
more than one target audience will find this feature useful.

** Minipages evolve to Boxes

In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
GUI

** Notes

LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
the Insert>Note menu:

- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
  further.
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
  well, greyed-out text.

** Better language and numbering on screen

Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:

- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
  the language of the document, which may be different from the
  language of the menus;
- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
  document class specifications.

** Word count

Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
count of the document or of the current selection.

** Error Lists

Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
of errors popping up at compilation time.

** Improved bibliography support

- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
  "before citation" field is supported;
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
  flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
  and law fields;
- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
  index processor is invoked).

** Improved microtypography support

LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:

- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
  between "e." and "g.");
- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
  style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
  improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
  much space between figure/table and caption.

** Small bits

- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways

- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
  pdf generation

- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
  edit the included figure

- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
  has poor support for other than English index sorting.

** Bug fixes

Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)


What's new in version 1.3.7?
----------------------------

We hope that this will be the last release in the 1.3.x series. In
addition to many bug fixes, the following improvements are worth
noting:

- LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245,
  the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0.

- The windows version has received some polish, in particular in the
  installer and in the handling of file names.

All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.


What's new in version 1.3.6?
----------------------------

Unix and MacOSX users should consider this to be a bugfix release.

To Windows users, however, LyX 1.3.6 is the first version of LyX
to support the platform officially. This means that we've put a huge
effort into squashing those bugs that were present in Ruurd Reitsma's
unofficial ports to Windows. Large chunks of the code base have been
touched in an attempt to resolve these problems so whilst we're
confident that LyX/Win 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
Windows, we cannot say that it's bug free.

We would like to highlight three fixes in particular:
  * It is now possible to typeset files which reside in a directory with
    spaces in its name; this requires a modern TeX implementation (such
    as teTeX 3.0).
  * It is possible to use Ctrl-PageDown and Control-PageUp (<opt>-tab
    and <opt><shift>-tab with LyX/Mac) to switch between the open documents.
  * LaTeX-type accents, ligature breaks and hyphenation marks are now
    considered as part of words 



What's new in version 1.3.5?
----------------------------

This is mainly a bugfix release, with few notable user-visible
improvements. However, we would like to highlight two fixes in particular:
  * Nested documents (with Insert>Include File...), which have been
    broken since LyX 1.2.0, should now work properly, including the
    case where the files are in different directories.
  * It is now possible to compile LyX with gcc 3.4.

What's new in version 1.3.4?
----------------------------

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.3 in
five main areas:
  * It adds support for old files from LyX 0.10.x or 0.12.x;
  * Lyx documents can now be opened and edited even if
    they use text classes not present in your latex installation;
  * New Qt features have been added (improved selection,
    drag-and-drop);
  * Mac OS X support is much improved;
  * The interface and documentation localization have
    been polished.

What's new in version 1.3.3?
----------------------------

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.2 in
four main areas:
  * import of old LyX files and export to DocBook have been improved;
  * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
  * MacOSX users can now compile LyX and enjoy the native MacOSX interface;
  * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of
    the user interface and documentation.

What's new in version 1.3.2?
----------------------------

This is a maintenance release which improves upon 1.3.1 in
three main areas:
  * the spellchecker code has been overhauled and many bugs 
    have been squashed;
  * many small bugs in the Qt frontend have been fixed;
  * several languages now benefit from an improved translation of 
    the user interface.

What's new in version 1.3.1?
----------------------------

LyX 1.3.1 is a maintenance release, which adds some polish to the new
features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also fixes some
significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import script. We
also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex import
improvements) for good measure.

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org

What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------

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.

** Xforms frontend

The advent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
implemented, because we have had more time to polish it. In this release,
most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.

Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
version 1.0. This version has been released under the LGPL (Lesser
General Public License), and the availability of the source means that
many bugs that have been plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You
are advised to upgrade to xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes.
In fact, LyX 1.3.0 no longer supports versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.

In most cases the dialogs have been designed to make it impossible to input
invalid parameters. The exception to this rule is the input of length data.
Power LaTeX users can still input obtuse "glue lengths", but the widgets are
highlighted in red if this input is invalid or incomplete. This visual
feedback makes it easy to see why LyX won't allow you to Apply your changes.

** 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

- updated italian User Guide

- updated french localization


What's new in version 1.2.2?
----------------------------

LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1.2.1.

** Updates

- 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

- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
  when dragging the mouse)

- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
  particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
  require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
  found)

- 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

- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
  keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer

- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
  other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)

- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default

- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses

- update sciword bindings

- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
  Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial

- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
  the interface


What's new in version 1.2.1?
----------------------------

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
1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
recommended.

** Updates

- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
  when this gets released)

- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
  the performance problems

- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog

- 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"

- 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)

- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations

- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features

- 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


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