Dear developers
I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how much I appreciate this
release. We have been treated to many great releases of Lyx, and 2.4 was
really impressive. But for me personally, this release made all the difference.
A few years ago I bought a diminutive "surface go" in order to work with lyx
while travelling light. It did work, but it was so slow that sometimes I would
type whole words, which would only appear on screen after I had finished typing
them. It would be worse when I also deleted a character in between as due to
the lag something else could be deleted. I lived with it because I love LyX
and I could not think of any alternative hardware which would have been equally
small but powerful enough. 2.4.2 changed this experience completely. Now
hitting a key on this little thing has instantaneous effect on the screen. even
though I am using.a machine which would have been considered slow more than 10
years ago. To me 2.4.2 is a change like day and night.
Many, many thanks, Marcus
> On 3 Oct 2024, at 23:04, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Public release of LyX version 2.4.2
> ===================================
>
> We are proud to announce the release LyX 2.4.2, the second maintenance
> release in the 2.4.x series.
>
> This is almost entirely a bug-fixing release, with no significant new
> features. However, some crashes have been fixed, and we have made some
> significant improvements to display speed, which will be especially
> noticeable on older or slower systems.
>
> One important bug fixed in this release involves labels in captions
> and some other constructs. These were wrongly \protect'ed in earlier
> versions.
>
> There has been a change (as of 2.4.0) in how the option to use vertical
> space between paragraphs is handled. Previously, LyX simply modified
> \parskip and \parindent, but this caused various problems (see bug
> #4796). Now, we use the parskip package. As a result, however, and
> to ensure there are no changes to old documents, when LyX files from
> 2.3.x and earlier are converted to the new format, if they were set to
> use vertical space between paragraphs, the lyx2lyx conversion routine
> adds
> % Added by lyx2lyx
> \setlength{\parskip}{\smallskipamount}
> \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
> to the preamble and, within LyX itself, resets the text layout to use
> indentation (so we do not issue the new code for vertical spacing). The
> net effect is that PDFs generated with LaTeX (etc) look right, but in
> LyX itself indentation is used.
>
> This will happen with any document created with 2.3.x or older. It can
> also happen with documents created from templates created with 2.3.x
> or older, and even with new documents, if you had previously set them to
> use, by default, vertical space. Templates are just LyX files saved in
> the templates/ folder, and the 'defaults' are simply saved in a
> template file, defaults.lyx. Hence, if you want the new behavior, or
> just want the LyX document to look `right', then you will need to make
> two changes to the document or template: Remove what lyx2lyx added, and
> then set Paragraph Separation to Vertical Space.
>
> You can download LyX 2.4.2 from https://www.lyx.org/Download.
>
> If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
> documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which
> you will find at https://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to
> the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). Bugs can be reported
> on our bug tracker (https://www.lyx.org/trac/) or by writing the
> developers' list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org).
>
> The LyX team.
> https://www.lyx.org
>
>
> NOTE FOR PACKAGERS: Most of the packages indicate the version number as
> 2.4.2.1. This is because we discovered and fixed a nasty bug after 2.4.2 had
> already been packaged, and decided to delay the release. Although 2.4.2
> packages had not been officially released, they had been made available for
> testing. So, to avoid confusion between versions, we used a different number
> for the currently released packages.
>
>
>
>
> What's new
> ==========
>
> ** Updates:
> ***********
>
> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
>
> - There was undocumented change how hyperlink insets are exported to
> xHTML format compared to LyX 2.3.x (type "File" is no more exported
> as http(s) link). We added details to the RELEASE-NOTES file.
>
> - Load graphics after geometry, so page size is set properly (bug
> 10970).
>
> - Recognize .plt as a GnuPlot extension (bug 11148).
>
> - Restore obvious "G" shortcut for Greyed Out notes.
>
>
> * MISCELLANEOUS
>
> - Update format of lyxrc.dist templates
>
> - Update templates to use native vertical space method.
>
>
> * USER INTERFACE
>
> - Show font info in status line again.
>
> - Make scrolling smoother when using selection.
>
> - Show the temporary directory in About LyX dialog.
>
> - Improve document output pane (bug 12902).
>
> - Speedup interactive use by avoiding expensive math macros bookkeeping
> when possible.
>
> - Make -geometry command-line option work on all platforms.
>
> - Fix macOS bug, where XQuartz application would be launched for no
> reason (bug #13086).
>
> - Fix problem with collapsing of outliner (bug 13098).
>
>
> * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
>
> - Update Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, French,
> German, Italian, Polish and Slovak localizations of the user
> interface.
>
>
> * BUILD/INSTALLATION
>
> - Avoid bogus warnings when configuring for Qt6.
>
>
>
> ** Bug fixes:
> *************
>
> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
>
> - When exporting to MathML, the argument of the \boxed{} macro is now
> correctly treated as math.
>
> - Properly escape special characters (!, @, |) in nomenclature output.
>
> - Handle linguistic structure trees in ePub and PDF (DocBook) output (bug
> 12372).
>
> - Improve the way spaces are handled in labels when refstyle is used.
>
>
> * USER INTERFACE
>
> - Fix regression which marks document modified in case of external
> modification. Only file deletion will trigger the modification
> flag now (see bug 12819).
>
> - Fix crash when using Save As... with previews enabled (bug 13091).
>
> - Fix crash when attempting to search in selection that contains
> only math.
>
> - Fix crash when copying some math formulas or exporting them to
> DocBook (bug 13069).
>
> - Fix potential crashes when scrolling documents.
>
> - Fix bug where the dialog asking for saving unapplied changes
> on buffer change popped up twice, or sometimes not at all (bug
> 12954).
>
> - Improve performance when selecting text on less powerful systems
> (bug 13050).
>
> - Fix performance problems with references with (very) many authors.
>
> - Fix problem that key bindings that include optional modifier keys
> could not be un- or re-bound (bug 12973)
>
> - Enable OK/Apply button in tabular dialog when "Additional Space" combo
> has been set to different value.
>
> - Fix ghost image on Windows with system colors (bug 13084).
>
> - Restore old display of cross-references in the outliner. The change
> led to odd behavior on filtering.
>
> - Display values of cross-references in tooltips for forward references.
>
> - Disable vertical alignment in tables with variable width columns
> (tabularx and xltable), as this is not supported by the packages.
> Also fix the disabling mechanism in the table dialog.
>
> - Fix display of integral limits on Windows (bug 13087).
>
> - Fix crash when deleting tabs in a selection (with S-BackTab) in a
> text-only inset (ERT, Listings...).
>
> - Fix display glitches when applying some operations to a selection.
>
>
> * INTERNALS
>
> - Fix possible crash in undo code after inserting note inset over a
> multi-paragraph selection.
>
> - Fix a Python script, used to preview math expressions, that used a
> module that is removed in Python 3.13.
>
> - Fix case where debug information may report all numbers as hexadecimal.
>
> - Make sure that lyxclient name is initialized properly.
>
>
> * TEX2LYX
>
> - Fix import of nomenclature entries which contain '%' or '"' characters.
>
>
> * BUILD/INSTALLATION
>
> - Fix 'make install' target for autotools builds with autoconf >= 2.72.
>
>
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