First beta of LyX 2.0 released
The first beta release of LyX 2.0.0 has been published today. New features are
- A new debugging pane showing the progress of compilation, debugging messages and output of external programs
- An instant preview inset based on the preview package
- Spell-checking on the fly
- A multilingual Thesaurus
- Advanced search feature with format consideration
- Forward search – directly jumping from a particular row in LyX to the DVI/PDF output
- A document comparison feature
- Context menus for the outliner
- XHTML Output
- Support for multiple indices
- Support for XeTeX typesetting
- Better output control
- Native includeonly support for compiling selected subdocuments
- Support for more LaTeX commands and packages (phantom commands, makebox, nameref, ulem, lettrine, …)
- Support of the refstyle package instead of prettyref
- Support for further languages (Swiss, Turkmen) and encodings (applemac)
- Enhanced branches feature
- Improved table handling
- Some new size features
- Better color handling
- Support for required arguments (beside optional)
- New subversion features
- Support for Lilypond music notation
and there are many more.
For more information and download visit:
- the List of changes,
- the LyX Homepage,
- the announcement on the mailing list,
- the download area.
This text is available in German. Dieser Text ist auch in Deutsch verfügbar.
