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Note that:
- Features that have been implemented in the current stable version are highlighted green. Cf. this overview on new features in LyX 1.4, this overview for new features in LyX 1.5, and this overview for new features in LyX 1.6.
- Features that are under development for the next major version are marked yellow. Cf. this overview on the current developments.
- Features that are very unlikely to be implemented (due to developer design decision, technical reasons, etc.) are marked red.
- Features that are available for sponsorship at http://www.lyx.org/Donate are marked orange.
Tools
Spellchecker
- Spell Checker Dialog
- "Change All" option→implemented in LyX 2.0
- Helge Hafting
- Sam Lewis
- Günter Milde
- Spelling language indication on pane (See bug 2208)→implemented in LyX 2.0
- Georg Baum
- Martin A. Hansen
- Helge Hafting
- Hellmut Weber
- Mirko Briemle
- Liviu Andronic
- Dock widget or even intext popup widget for spellchecker (See bug 2266)→LyX 2.0 features a dock widget
- Sam Lewis
- Uwe Stöhr
- Felipe Morales
- Helge Hafting
- Emme Ci
- Spell Checking Workflow
- Ability to edit while spellchecking (see bug 2529). I often find unrelated errors during a spellchecking session. But if I fix them, spellcheck have to start over from the beginning. It'd be nice to simply continue from the position where it stopped last time.
→fixed in LyX 2.0
- Helge Hafting
- Uwe Stöhr
- Jean-Pierre Chrétien
- Continuous spell checking, as you write with wavy underlining (See bug 718)→implemented in LyX 2.0
→How to sponsor this feature
- John C. McCabe-Dansted (Yes, not only useful to liberal arts writers...)
- Benjamin Kellermann
- Gabriel many
- Scott Otterson
- Kirk McDonald (even liberal arts writers should be supported))
- Marco Rossi
- Alain Lifchitz
- Ran Rutenberg
- Martin Kalling
- Prakash Manandhar
- Sylvain Reboux
- Matthias Gorges (writing in Word and copying it into LyX isn't that great!)
- Sam Lewis (supposedly increases spelling learn capacity)
- Francois Beaubert
- Paul Hines (This method is faster for long documents because one does not need to repeatedly ignore the same set of abbreviations or foreign names. It takes me 20 min to check my thesis as is.)
- Tim Michelsen
- Mirko Briemle
- Christopher Reeve (As said, saves time with documents containing abbreviations and technical words)
- Dominik Waßenhoven
- Reiner Wainhold
- Erez Yerushalmi
- Liviu Andronic
- Peter Buxton
- Rafael Melo
- Peter Baumgartner
- Spyros Kotoulas
- Silvo
- Turn-off option for spell checking comments or notes (See bug 1509)→implemented in LyX 2.0
- Gabriel Many
- Sylvain Reboux
- Andreas Neustifter
- Sam Lewis
- Hellmut Weber
- Liviu Andronic
- Benny
- Allowing sections not to be spellchecked (see bug 1042). This is very useful for computer code, acronyms etc., no more "click click click..." to skip through all these while spellchecking. Also useful with the continous spellcheck mentioned below.
- Helge Hafting
- Arkadiusz Danilecki
- Liviu Andronic
Find and Replace
- Find and replace dialog
- Dock widget for Find and Replace
→ some work for LyX 2.0 was done by Tommaso Cucinotta (see also this overview and bugs 3998 2625)
- Emme Ci
- Sam Lewis
- Michael Reed
- Andreas K.
- Helge Hafting
- Günter Milde
- Find and replace workflow
- 'Find and replace source text
E.g. Able to search for \index{density, able to replace McCabe with M\textsuperscript{c}Cabe etc. Also Unicode regexes. (See bug 3998).
→ Preliminary work done for LyX 2.0, see this overview
- John C. McCabe-Dansted
- Kirk McDonald
- Edward Cherlin
- Sylvain Reboux
- Tim Michelsen
- Helge Hafting
- Rudi Gaelzer
- Hellmut Weber
- Tomasz Kołodziejski
- Wrap-Around Search, so you don't have to search backwards and forwards to finally find what you're looking for.
→ This is also done in advanced search in LyX 2.0.
- Jack Desert
- Aurélien Gentils
- Highlight all matches, not just the current one (with a different color for the current one compared to the others) like VIM, Emacs and Opera.
- Jim Oldfield
- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
Statistics
- (Word) counting
- Include character counting (useful for PNAS). → new in 1.5.4
- An ignore-wordcounting-notes option → new in LyX 1.6.4: notes and inactive branches content will not be counted.
- Word counting in the main document should count all words in the main document and in all subdocuments.
Change Tracking/Document Comparison/Revision Control
- Change Tracking (new in LyX 1.4)
- Show/Hide changes on screen (LyX Workarea)
for working on long documents it is very confusing always having all deleted text still there especially when lots of changes are made. so it would be great to have an option that would show only the final output on the screen
- Jan D. Hauck
- Peter Coles
- Clayton Featherstone
- Comparing documents (see 3469) →implemented in LyX 2.0
→How to sponsor this feature
- Revision Control
- using SVN instead of/additional to RCS → SVN is supported.
- (Better) version control for windows (I've tried all sorts of way of getting RCS installed on windows (which worked, but lyx can't seem to work with) → lyx should work correctly with rcs as of version 1.6.0 --ps
- Ryan Cross - (v 1.4)
- CVS support, with ability to diff a file against other revisions of that file. It would also be nice to be able to include the CVS revision history into the document itself ( ->autogenerated changelog).
- Mercurial support. Mercurial is a distributed revision control written in Python. It would be nice if it is available in lyx out of the box.
version control
Date Preferences
- Lyx should provide a drop-down menu list of common Date formats from which a user may choose. The user shouldn't have to supply a date format code -- e.g., %x, etc. The drop-down menu should display example date formats like modern wordprocessors.
- Bruce Bigby (bbigby@rochester.rr.com)
Formatting Tools
- colour and appearance of inserted horizontal lines
- LyX should provide a simple right-mouse-button-menue to change thickness and colour (and maybe even the style) of inserted formatting horizontal lines.
Citing, Referencing and the Lot
Citing
- Citation workflow
- Check for hanging citations. It would be nice for Lyx to warn you of citations that you have not in your bibtex databases but still have cross-references referring to them. It's a pain to search through the document looking for the cross-refs. Perhaps it could be added to the new Labels&Reference Navigator. (Edit: Make them a different color, e.g. red, would also help a lot)
- Jorge Moraleda
- Jan D. Hauck
- Benny
- Change all function. --- In cases where the Bibtex key has changed in the Bib-file it would be cool to have a function in lyx that updates all bibtexkeys referring to the same entry.
- User Interface
- Really easy and slick BibTeX Frontend build into LyX
→This is very unlikely to happen. A bibliography tool (also a simple one) is a rather complex application, and there are countless applications available that do better than a homebrewn one ever could. However, in LyX 1.6, you can directly open included BibTeX databases via a context menu on BibTeX references. LyX will automatically detect an installed BibTeX editor, such as Jabref or Pybliographic. Also, 1.6 has improved support for searching, etc., references.
- Kirk McDonald
- Andrew Loch (JabRef has a nice interface, but is too slow)
- Martijn Brouwer. Not necessary: checkout pybliographic
- Ekkehart Schlicht. It would be just cool if it were possible to add new bibliographic items through the citation insert window right away into the Bibtex database used by the document.
- Gabriel Many
- Jacob Floyd - I would love to see environment-like bibliography entries, ie: ap22>ozguzolqktxq</a>, [url=http://gujqxjfkxdnx.com/(approve sites)]gujqxjfkxdnx[/url], [link=http://zhyfeaeinirp.com/(approve sites)]zhyfeaeinirp[/link], http://tviwkgbdxhba.com!!!LyX<->LaTeX(approve sites) intercharge
Note: By a general consensus of the developers, using LaTeX as a native format of LyX is no option. Query the lyx-devel archieves for details.
- Edit LaTeX code in LyX. You can see the .tex file while you write in Lyx and it updates automatically. That's fantastic, it makes things easier for stubborn LaTeX users. If this is possible, what would make things even better for LaTeX users would be to be able to edit the .tex file and see the LyX file update all inside LyX(a bit like you can in MS FrontPage). That way people can do all their clever LaTeX tricks that they're used to while still getting all the many many benefits that make LyX better than LaTeX by itsel. Thanks!
- Michael Best
- Aurélien Gentils
- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
- Better Latex import/export: Because of the errors caused with each lyx/latex transform, I'm finding it difficult to collaborate with pure Latex users if I use Lyx.
- Scott Otterson
- Marco Rossi
- Peter Davidson
- Luiz Souza
- Andrea Del Prado
- Francois Beaubert
- Ryan Cross
- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
- Sylvain Reboux
- Gabriel de Perthuis
- Manuel Fernandez - use latex as lyx file format
- Viktor Nilsson - use LaTeX as lyx file format
- Angus MacLean
- Carlos Florentino
- Jim Oldfield - specifically: on import be able to recognise theorem-like environments, including adding the appropriate module (this is easily the biggest cause of ERT in documents that I import), and on export use \newcommand in preamble for math mode commands instead of the weird \def concoction that gets output at the moment (I guess that this would only work for commands defined at the start of the document, but defining this later is bad style anyway IMO).
- John Horsemoon - Ideally use latex as lyx file format. Even if this is not possible in the short term, allow latex as a native file format, in the sense that lyx then has the option of opening and saving tex files directly, without going through import-export menus and confirmation for overwriting existing files. Internal representation can still be done in the lyx format. Tex/Latex is the universal format that everyone can use for collaboration, whereas lyx file format is specific to a particular application. The end product (tex file) of scientific writing should be independent of a particular application or platform.
- Paste Latex Section (Relyx in Place). And if LyX know the latex constructs it relyx's them. I have a lot of old latex documents wich i want to reuse. But not all of it, just some tabels and stuff. But if I paste the into LyX i have them as evil red. Or have to create a file and must run relyx and copy and paste.
- David Rosenberg
- Marco Rossi
- Luiz Souza
- Francois Beaubert
- Rudi Gaelzer
- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
- Benny
- John Horsemoon (Very useful. The capability is already there. Just needs an interface, e.g. Paste Special --> Paste as Latex)
- Carlos Florentino (99% of my collaborators and colleagues that use LaTeX, are compiling it with programs much worse than LyX (for this purpose), like emacs, winedit, texshop, etc... If I had to name one feature, it's pretty obvious that this is now THE MOST important feature that everyone is urgently needing to start using LyX. Please include it in version 2.0. I do not believe it is difficult to implement, as J. Horsemoon, says "it's already there. Just needs an interface"!)
- Sander Nijdam
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