text: Since 1.6.x, it has been possible to embed layout information into a document, but there has been no UI for this advanced feature. As of 2.0, there will be one, accessible from Document→Settings. One can think of this pane as providing an "included" layout file that is specific to the document. This is useful for defining environments or character styles that you only need for the one document, which would make a module overkill. It can also be useful for testing new ideas before committing them to a module. This should be used with care. It is not a good idea to mess with a layout when you are actually working on a document.
  Pavel Sanda added support for the LaTeX-package ulem. This way new character styles are available in the Text Style dialog in the field Misc: strikeout \sout (now bound to C+S+O), double underline \uuline and wavy underline \uwave. Also handling of the underlined text has been moved to ulem, so that underlined text can be broken across the lines.
  Richard Heck implemented support for named references (LaTeX command \nameref) via the reference dialog. A named reference gives you the name of the referenced text part instead of its number.
  Support for Swiss German has been added by J�rgen Spitzm�ller. This is not yet supported natively by LaTeX (i.e., no babel support, no specific hyphenation patterns), but at least spell checking and thesaurus use the variant-specific dictionaries now.
  you can now specify that (selected) active branch names are appended to the output file name; so if you have a file myfile with a branch comments, you can tell LyX to export the file as myfile-comments.pdf if that branch is active.
  the document dialog now also lists undefined branches used in the document. Those can be added to the list of defined branches with one click.
  when pasting from another LyX document, LyX now checks if the pasted content contains unknown branches. Those will be added to the list of defined branches after user confirmation.
  LyX supports now also the following paper sizes: A0, A1, A2, A6, B0, B1, B2, B6, the ISO C-series and the JIS B-series
  As result of the joint effort with J�rgen Spitzm�ller it is now possible to use lengths with a specified range in the horizontal space dialog. Such a length is specified by inserting for example "5col%+1mm-2mm" in the text field of the dialog. For the vertical space dialog this feature was already available.
  Peter K�mmel and Pavel Sanda added new debugging pane, which can be used to inspect various stages of latex compilation, debugging messages, output of external programs like subversion etc.