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65 Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?
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100 LyX is a document preparation system.
101 It excels at letting you create complex technical and scientific articles
102 with mathematics, cross-references, bibliographies, indices, etc.
103 It is very good at documents of any length in which the usual processing
104 abilities are required: automatic sectioning and pagination, spellchecking,
106 It can also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted, there
107 are probably simpler programs available for that.
108 It is definitely not the best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertiseme
109 nts (we'll explain why later), though with some effort all these can be
111 Some examples of what it is used for: memos, letters, dissertations and
112 theses, lecture notes, seminar notebooks, conference proceedings, software
113 documentation, books (on PostgreSQL, remote sensing, cryptology, fictional
114 novels, poetry, and even a children's book or two), articles in refereed
115 scientific journals, scripts for plays and movies, business proposals \SpecialChar \ldots{}
120 LyX is a program that provides a modern approach to writing documents with
121 a computer by using a markup language paradigm, an approach that breaks
122 with the obsolete tradition of the
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130 It is designed for authors who want professional output quickly with a
131 minimum of effort without becoming specialists in typesetting.
132 The job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, not the author;
133 with LyX, the author can concentrate on the contents of her writing.
136 Part of the initial challenge of using LyX comes from the change in thinking
137 that you, the user, must make.
138 At one time, all we had for creating documents were typewriters, so we
139 all learned certain tricks to get around their limitations.
140 Underlining, which is little more than overstriking with the
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148 character, became a way to emphasize text.
149 You were forced to figure out column sizes and tab stops, and set them,
150 before creating a table.
151 The same applied for letters and other right justified text.
152 Hyphenation at the end of a line required a careful eye and a lot of foresight.
155 In other words, we've all been trained to worry about the little details
156 of which character goes where.
157 Consequently, almost all word processors have this mentality.
158 They still use tab stops for adding whitespace.
159 You still need to worry about exactly where on the page something will
161 Emphasizing text means changing a font, similar to changing the typewriter
163 This is the underlying philosophy of a WYSIWYG word processor:
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183 This is where LyX differs from an ordinary word processor.
184 You don't concern yourself with what character goes where.
189 and LyX takes care of the rest, following a set of rules called a
199 To be fair, most recent versions of the most popular office suites now have
200 some sort of style sheets which follow a similar markup method.
201 However, our experience is that they are still rarely used in practice.
204 Let's look at a little example:
207 Suppose you are writing a report.
208 To begin your report, you want a section called
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217 So, you go into whatever menu it is in your word processor that changes
218 font sizes and decide on a new font size.
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231 Of course, if you later decide that this section belongs someplace else
232 in the document, or if you insert a new section before it, you need to
233 change the numbering for this and all following sections, as well as any
234 entry in the table of contents.
238 In LyX, you go to the pull-down on the far left of the button bar and select
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256 If you cut and paste the section, it will automatically be renumbered ---
258 And if you enter references to that section correctly (by inserting cross-refer
259 ence tags), LyX will automatically update them all throughout the file so
260 that you never, ever type a section number.
263 Now let's look at the problem of consistency.
264 Five days later, you reopen your report and start Section\SpecialChar ~
266 However, you forget that you were using 18pt bold instead of 16pt, so you
267 type in the heading for Section\SpecialChar ~
268 4 in a different font that what you used
269 for Section\SpecialChar ~
271 That problem doesn't even exist in LyX.
272 The computer takes care of all that silly bookkeeping about which thing
273 has what size font, not you.
274 After all, that's what a computer is good at.
277 Here's another example.
278 Suppose you're making a list.
279 In other word processors, a list is just a bunch of tab stops and newlines.
280 You need to figure out where to put the label for each list item, what
281 that label should be, how many blank lines to put between each item, and
283 Under LyX, you have only two concerns: what kind of list is this, and what
284 do I want to put in it.
288 So, the basic idea behind LyX is: specify
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325 It's a powerful idea that greatly simplifies the mechanics of writing documents.
326 This is also why LyX isn't so good for creating posters and flyers---in
331 want to specify exactly where everything goes, because there are no functional
332 units like paragraphs, sections, etc.
333 This doesn't mean LyX is missing some cool function.
334 It simply means that it isn't the right tool for the job --- you don't
335 use a screwdriver to drive in nails (unless your screwdriver comes with
336 a lifetime warranty).
339 Differences between LyX and Other Word
347 LyX and Other Word Processors
356 No, we're not trying to start (or win) a word processor holy war here.
357 But we do think it's important to describe LyX's features.
358 And one of LyX's main features, WYSIWYM, is a fundamentally different concept
359 than the one that most of people have about word processing.
365 Here's a list of things you won't find in LyX:
374 Extra whitespace (i.e.
386 Tab stops, along with a ruler showing you the position of things on the
387 page, are useless in LyX.
388 The program worries about where things go on the page, not you.
389 Extra whitespace is similar; LyX adds them where necessary, depending on
391 Not being able to type two blank lines in a row will be annoying at first,
392 but it makes more sense once you're thinking in WYSIWYM terms.
395 Here are some things that exist in LyX, but aren't used as you might think:
405 single spaced, double spaced, etc.)
408 Whitespace, horizontal and vertical
414 Typefaces (bold, italic, underline, etc.)
417 Although they exist in LyX, you generally don't need them.
418 LyX will take care of these things for you, depending on what you're doing.
419 Different parts of the document are automatically set in a different typeface
421 Paragraph indenting is context dependent; different types of paragraphs
422 get indented differently.
423 Page breaks get handled automatically, as well.
424 In general, the space between lines, between words, and between paragraphs
425 is variable, set by LyX.
431 There are ways to adjust all of these (only some of which require knowledge
432 of LaTeX), either for a whole document or for a specific location in a
448 Lastly, there are a few areas where we believe LyX (and LaTeX) surpasses
449 many word processors:
467 Granted, many modern word processors can handle mathematical symbols, tables,
468 and hyphenation, and many have moved towards style definitions and the
470 However, they've only recently been able to do so, whereas LyX is built
471 upon the LaTeX document preparation system.
472 LaTeX has been around for over 15 years, and
483 LaTeX (and why do I care)?
486 LaTeX is a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport in 1985.
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504 by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly, which has an entry in the bibliography
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531 which is how many people feel about it.
532 However, most folks don't understand just what TeX is.
533 TeX takes a sequence of typesetting commands, written in a script in an
534 ASCII file, and executes them.
535 It's a bit more complicated than a typewriter, but not nearly as involved
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545 incorporated into TeX, thus its excellent printed appearance.
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559 You can then feed the
563 file to anything that understands
571 to other formats like PostScript®, PDF, etc.
575 If it weren't for one other feature, all TeX would be is a typesetting engine.
576 However, TeX also allows you to define macros.
577 This is where the action begins.
580 Most people who use TeX are actually using a macro package which Knuth created
581 to hide a lot of the typesetting details.
582 This is what most people think of when they think of TeX\SpecialChar \@.
584 don't work with raw TeX, which are the bare-bones typesetting commands.
585 People creating new macro-packages do that.
586 This is where Leslie Lamport enters our story.
587 He wanted a macro package that was more user-oriented and less typesetter-orien
588 ted, a set of commands that consistently typeset things like sections or
589 tables or math formulae in a uniform, consistent fashion with as little
591 This is how LaTeX was born.
594 Now, in parallel with the development and growth of LaTeX, other folks were
595 creating their own custom macro packages for TeX, ones to make slides or
596 articles for math journals and so on.
597 Some used the raw TeX facilities to do this, others began modifying LaTeX.
598 To try and unify this mess, a team of LaTeX-nicians (including Lamport,
599 of course) began to work on LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX, during
601 This new version of LaTeX has commands which provide an easier-to-use interface
602 to TeX's macro-creating commands (remember TeX?), aid in the use of new
604 In fact, LaTeX is quite an extensive language in its own right! Users around
605 the world have been creating their own add-ons for LaTeX beyond the standard
609 There are two ways to extend LaTeX: classes and styles.
614 is a set of LaTeX (and TeX) macros describing a new type of document, like
615 a book, or an article.
616 There are classes for slides, for physics and math journals\SpecialChar \ldots{}
618 even have a class for their thesis format! A
622 differs from a class in that it doesn't define a new type of document,
623 but a different type of
627 that any document can use.
628 For example, LyX controls page margins and line spacing using two different
629 LaTeX style-files designed for these purposes.
630 There are style-files for a whole slew of things: printing labels or envelopes,
631 changing indentation behavior, adding new fonts, manipulating graphics,
632 designing fancy page headings, customizing bibliographies, altering the
633 location and appearance of footnotes, tables, and figures, customizing
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641 TeX: Typesetting language with macro capability.
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650 classes: Descriptions of a type of document, using LaTeX\SpecialChar \@.
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655 styles: Alters the default behavior of LaTeX in some way.
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659 LyX: Visual, WYSIWYM word-processor that uses LaTeX in all its glory to
663 The idea of this section was to try and explain
667 LyX works somewhat differently from other word processors.
668 The reason is simple: LyX uses LaTeX as its printing backend.
669 Just like LaTeX, LyX focuses on the context of your writing ---
674 The computer then handles how it should look.
677 Oh --- one last thing.
678 LaTeX is pronounced like TeX is.
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760 but numerous holy wars and flame
761 fests have been started over this issue on the LyX mailing lists, so please
762 just pronounce it however you please.
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777 Navigating the Documentation
780 To make it easier to answer your questions and describe all of the features
781 of LyX, the documentation has been split up into several different files.
782 Each one has its own purpose, as described below.
783 Before you go plowing into any of those files, however, you should read
784 this chapter thoroughly first, since it contains a lot of useful information
785 and commentary that can save you some time.
788 Although LyX is now well past the
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796 mark, some of the documentation may be incomplete or a bit out of date,
797 though we try to keep up.
798 Like the rest of LyX, the manuals are the work of a group of volunteers
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807 , families, dishes to clean, kitty litter to dispose of, et cetera.
808 If you want to help out, be sure to read Section\SpecialChar ~
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814 in addition to the rest of this document.)
817 Also, please do us a favor---if anything in these manuals confuses you,
818 is unclear, or wrong, don't hesitate to let us know! You can reach the
819 current document maintainers by mailing to
821 lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
824 If you have questions which are not obviously answered in the documentation,
825 and need help fast, there is an active users' mailing list which you can
828 lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
833 The Format of the Manuals
836 Some of you may have printed out the manual(s).
837 Others may be reading it online, within LyX as a file.
838 For those reading online, there are some differences from the printed version.
839 First, the title is simply at the top of the document, not formatted on
840 a separate page as in some of the printed versions.
841 Nor are any of the footnotes or the Table of Contents visible.
842 To open a footnote, which looks like this,
851 To close me, click on the grey box on the top left of this box, the one
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863 click on it with the left mouse button.
864 For the Table of Contents, either click on the grey box, or click on the
872 menu, where the contents are displayed automatically\SpecialChar \@.
876 In the printed manuals, all cross-references appear as the actual numbers
877 for a chapter, section, subsection, and so on.
878 Online, however, all cross-references appear as a grey box like the following:
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885 (The printed manuals show a number instead.) If you click on that box with
886 the left mouse button, a dialog box will appear containing a list of all
887 the cross-references in the document.
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928 Now that we've cleared up some of the differences between the printed and
929 online versions of this file, we can start looking at the format of this
931 You'll occasionally notice things in different fonts:
938 is used for general emphasis, generic arguments, book titles, names of
939 sections of other manuals, and notes from the authors.
946 is used for program and file names, LaTeX code, and LyX code and functions.
953 is used for menu, button, or dialog box names, and the names of keyboard
961 is used for people's names.
964 For menu accelerator keys and other more obscure keybindings, you'll probably
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1371 on Unix systems and use the Emacs editor.
1372 Unless specifically noted, the keybindings in the documentation are from
1373 the default CUA map.
1374 If you like Emacs, you should be smart enough to read the documentation
1375 and figure out the bindings on your own.
1381 The following list describes the contents of each of the files in the documentat
1401 If you are new to LyX, and have never used LaTeX before, you should start
1403 If you think LaTeX is the stuff they make condoms out of, then you definitely
1404 need to reread Chapter 1, then read the
1409 Note that after you read the
1413 , you'll probably still think LaTeX is some stretchy substance --- but you
1418 know how to use LyX.
1425 used LaTeX before, you should still read the
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1437 (Skimming the rest of the document wouldn't hurt, either.)
1440 If, at any time, you find yourself feeling a bit clueless with respect to
1441 LyX, try perusing the
1445 before diving into any of the other manuals.
1446 It's a good springboard.
1452 User's\SpecialChar ~
1457 The primary documentation.
1462 of the basic operation and available features of LyX here.
1463 The main manual assumes that you've read the
1473 Extended\SpecialChar ~
1483 Documents how to use raw LaTeX commands, additional layouts, and special-purpos
1484 e editing features, and includes some of the (rather bizarre, but nifty)
1485 tricks of the LaTeX masters.
1495 A description of advanced LyX features, including how to customize the overall
1496 behavior of LyX\SpecialChar \@.
1497 This includes such things as keybindings, internationalization,
1498 and configuration files.
1499 Don't even think of going in here until you read the
1514 LyX investigates your system upon installation.
1515 This file contains info on what LyX learned about your installation.
1516 Check it to see if you're missing something you might like to have.
1520 These files will reference one another as necessary.
1529 information on installation and customization, but refers the reader to
1532 Customization Manual
1534 for more information.
1537 We'll state again an important point:
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1540 If you are new to LyX, read the
1549 Otherwise, you could needlessly frustrate yourself.
1550 LyX does all that you need a word processor to do, but using a different
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1559 Contributing to the LyX Project
1565 LyX is mostly written in C++ (the LaTeX importer is written in Perl).
1566 It is a large project, and as a result it is not free from bugs, or the
1567 need for improvements in the source code.
1573 While using LyX, you may find behaviour which you consider a bug.
1574 Crashes, though rare, can happen.
1575 User interface problems are considered major bugs by the LyX team: especially
1576 helpful are indications of parts of the LyX interface you find confusing,
1580 LyX has a bug tracking system, which you can find at
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1590 You should check the bug tracker before reporting any bugs, in case it
1591 has already been reported.
1592 If you have a comment on an existing bug, or wish to report a new bug,
1593 you may either use the bug tracker, or send an e-mail to the development
1596 lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
1599 Archives of this list are linked from the main LyX website,
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1611 A good (useful) bug report will at a minimum include the version of LyX
1612 you are having the problem with.
1613 Accurate, detailed descriptions are preferred - the more time developers
1614 have to spend to pinpoint the source of a bug, the less time they have
1615 for other improvements.
1616 Mention the system and system version you are running LyX with.
1617 Give the versions of the libraries you have installed on your system, and,
1618 if relevant, the versions of external programs that LyX uses.
1619 If it's a compilation or configuration problem, include the file
1623 , and mention which compiler you are using.
1627 If you can make LyX crash, please take the time to produce a backtrace with
1628 a non-stripped lyx executable.
1629 The one built in the source directory is per default not stripped, while
1630 the installed binary is stripped.
1631 So, run LyX from gdb by typing, for example,
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1675 to produce a backtrace and include the output in the bug report
1681 if you want to be thorough, use the
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1705 commands to print out the values of local variables at a few stack levels.
1709 If possible, then a description of a way to reproduce the bug is more important
1710 than a backtrace, because then we have the possibility to roll our own
1712 If the bug is not easily reproducible, a backtrace is essential, because
1713 then that might be all we've got.
1716 Contributing fixes and new features
1719 If you have made changes to LyX's source that you think should become part
1720 of LyX, send your changes as a diff file (in unified format) to the development
1721 list referenced above, along with a change log, and a description of what
1725 Contributing to the Documentation
1728 LyX's documentation is extensive; however LyX is under constant development,
1729 and each new release adds new features.
1730 You may find some documentation needs improvement.
1731 This section describes what to do if you find an error, or have some suggestion
1732 s for improving the documentation.
1735 Reporting Errors in the Manuals
1738 If you find a problem with the documentation, send a message to the mailing
1741 lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1744 The documentation team will make any necessary fixes.
1747 Joining the Documentation Team.
1750 The LyX Documentation Project, like anything else in the LyX project, can
1751 always use assistance! If you're interested in contributing to the Documentatio
1752 n Project, you need to do the following assignment
1759 Get the latest LyX source code.
1766 The more adventurous can grab the latest documentation anonymously from
1767 the LyX CVS repository - it is contained in the
1774 You will find a directory inside the main tree called
1779 Inside that directory is a file called
1784 Read it; it's the style sheet for the documentation.
1800 The point of this exercise is to give you ideas.
1809 is likely to be the most up-to-date of all of the documentation.
1810 You should be able to glean some insights into how we want the manuals
1811 to read and to look.
1815 Contact the team at:
1821 lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org
1824 to discuss your intended changes, and get some feedback on them.
1828 The changes you wish to make may range from improving clarity of the text,
1829 to doing major re-structuring of the documentation.
1830 Any and all improvements are gladly received.