LyX

LyX is a fully fuctional WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) frontend for LaTeX wnich allows users with no programming knowledge to get the full benefits of LaTeX. It differs from products such as TeTeX as one needs to know no code and can simply write and mark any text as a footnote of chapter heading etc., and then hit the PDF button to get a perfectly formatted output.

Read the complete release notes.

Updates:

Document input/output:

• Add support for non-ASCII characters in hyperlinks
• Support rotated table cells with linebreaks
• Add support for LyX logo in RTL output
• Update support for linguistic subexamples.
• Support key symbols via menukeys package

Tex2lyx improvements:

• Add support for multirow
• Improve import of titling commands other than maketitle
• Add support for horizontal longtabular alignment
• Add support for btUnit (multibib)
• Add support for decimal alignment in table cells
• Add support for plural and capitalized refstyle references

Bug fixes:

Document input/output

• Fix footnotes in table with hyperref
• When cloning a buffer, do not start from a parent if it is not the current master (e.g., when compiling a child alone)
• Disallow paragraph customization in some single-par charstyle insets
• Fix problems with extra table borders added on table modification
• Fix text direction in figure wrap floats with RTL
• Fix text direction issue in info insets with RTL context
• Fix text direction problem with polyglossia with nested languages
• Use LTR environment for forceLTR content in RTL context with polyglossia
• Fix output of key symbols with info inset on the Mac
• Fix output of table cells with multiple languages
• Fix RTL table output with bidi package (non-TeX fonts)
• Do not mark the import converters for Sweave and knitr as needauth
• Fix conversion of captions from LyX 2.0 documents
• Ignore horizontal wheel scrolling in work area