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29 LyX Documentation Table of Contents
42 Differences between LyX and Other Word
55 LaTeX (and why do I care)?
59 Navigating the Documentation
63 The Format of the Manuals
72 Contributing to the LyX Project
83 Contributing fixes and new features
87 Contributing to the Documentation
91 Reporting Errors in the Manuals
94 Joining the Documentation Team.
99 LyX Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
104 Introduction and General Information
111 That's fine, but is it useful?
117 Does LyX run on my computer?
120 How much hard disk space does LyX need?
123 Is LyX really Open Source?
131 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for LyX stuff?
134 Where can I get LyX material by FTP?
137 What mailing lists are there?
140 Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?
143 Okay, wise guy! Where are they archived?
147 Compatibility with other word/document processors
151 Can I read/write LaTeX files?
154 Can I read/write Word files?
157 Can I read/write HTML files?
161 Obtaining and Compiling LyX
172 Where are precompiled binaries?
176 Questions about Evil Red Text (IMPORTANT!)
180 What is Evil Red Text (aka ERT)?
183 How do I enter Evil Red Text?
186 The new ERT inset is really inconvenient !
189 Is there an alternative?
193 Questions Related to Using LyX
201 How do I get rid of the date under the title?
204 How do I change the spacing in an Itemize/\SpecialChar \-
205 Enumerate/\SpecialChar \-
206 Description list environment
210 How do I number equations by section?
213 Is it possible to do this for figures and tables as well?
216 How do I change to footnote numbers to symbols (star, dagger, etc.)?
219 How do I kill widows and orphans?
222 How do I get a formatted list which starts with e.g.
227 How do I count words in LyX?
230 How do I insert a fixed amount of horizontal space?
233 How can I make citations show up as [1,2,3,6] or [1-3,6] rather than [1][2][3][6
238 Figure related questions
242 What is the difference between a
243 \begin_inset Quotes eld
247 \begin_inset Quotes erd
251 \begin_inset Quotes eld
255 \begin_inset Quotes erd
261 How do I get LyX to put the figure exactly where I want it?
265 \begin_inset Quotes eld
268 Too many unprocessed floats
269 \begin_inset Quotes erd
276 Math related questions
280 How do I put normal text inside a mathematical equation?
283 How do I make a cube root (or higher)?
288 Questions Related to Running LyX
292 How do I convert LyX files to LaTeX from the command line?
295 How do I create PDF files from my LyX document?
298 Why do the fonts in my document look so bad in
305 Why doesn't my latest and greatest version of Ghostscript render EPS inline
310 Questions Related to LyX on Windows
314 Why do the menus and the toolbar flicker ?
318 How to get further assistance
322 You still haven't answered my question!
325 I want to mail someone about my problem.
329 What to put in a request for help.
333 Administrative information and acknowledgments
341 Formats in which this FAQ is available.
345 Authorship and acknowledgments.
348 Disclaimer and Copyright.
373 Getting the Most out of the Tutorial
385 Getting Started with LyX
389 Your First LyX Document
393 Typing, Viewing, and Printing
399 WYSIWYM: Whitespace in LyX
407 Sections and Subsections
413 Other Environments: Verses, Quotations, and More
425 Templates: Writing a Letter
431 Labels and Cross-References
438 Your first cross-references
445 Footnotes and Margin Notes
462 Navigating an Equation
465 Exponents and Indices
477 Square roots, accents, and delimiters
483 TeX mode: Limits, log, sin and others
501 Other Major LyX Features
511 Importing LaTeX Documents---
516 Converting LyX Documents to LaTeX
526 Other Preamble Matter
571 Basic File Operations
574 Basic Editing Features
587 Using LyX with Other Programs
591 Importing ASCII files
594 Cut and Paste Between LyX and Other X Programs
599 LyX Setup and Supporting Applications
609 Setting Up the X Keyboard
634 Modifiers and Mode_switch
637 Helpful Hints and Tips
644 Dvips and Ghostscript
654 Ghostscript, Xdvi and Ghostview
675 The Various Document Classes
689 Fine-tuning the Defaults
692 Paper Size, Orientation, and Margins
699 Paragraph Indentation and Separation
706 Global Indentation Method
712 Changing Line Spacing
716 Paragraph Environments
741 Changing the Numbering
863 What You Can and Can't Nest
866 Nesting Other Things: Tables, Math, Floats, etc.
869 Usage and General Features
881 Example #1: The Six-fold Way and Mixed Nesting
884 Example #2: Inheritance
887 Example #3: Labels, Levels, and the
898 Example #4: Going Bonkers
903 Fonts and Text Styles
913 Using Different Character Styles
924 Printing and Previewing
936 Viewing the PostScript® Version with
945 A Few Words about Typography
949 Hyphens and Hyphenation
956 Abbreviations and End of Sentence
971 Floats: Tables, Figures, Footnotes and Margin Notes
983 Figures and Imported Graphics
1013 What can be placed inside a table cell?
1016 Cut & Paste in Tables
1019 Multiple lines in cells
1026 Table of Contents and other Listings
1030 The Table of Contents
1033 List of Figures, Tables and Algorithms
1038 Mathematical Formulae
1046 Navigating a Formula
1052 Exponents and Subscripts
1076 The math editor for LaTeX users
1080 Brackets and decorations
1086 Arrays and Multi-line Equations
1089 Equation Numbering and Labels
1092 User defined macros in math mode
1096 Directions on using macros
1126 Enabling AMS Support
1144 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
1147 Specifying Short Titles with Optional Arguments
1152 Spacing, pagination and line breaks
1156 Extra Horizontal Space
1159 Extra Vertical Space
1162 Changing Paragraph Alignment
1179 Spellchecker Options
1197 International Support
1204 Keyboard mapping configuration
1215 Extended LyX Features
1229 \begin_inset Quotes eld
1232 Help! LyX generated an unreadable
1237 \begin_inset Quotes erd
1243 Translating LaTeX files into LyX
1246 Inserting LaTeX Code into LyX Documents
1251 LyX and the LaTeX Preamble
1255 About the LaTeX Preamble
1258 Changing the Preamble
1271 Example #3: Paragraph Indentation
1274 Example #4: This Document
1279 LyX and LaTeX Errors
1287 Preparing a Bibliography with BibTeX
1300 Cross-References Between Files
1310 Fancy Headers and Footers
1316 Wrapping Text Around Figures
1325 Removing Extra Column Space
1328 Changing the Column Separator Character
1331 Making a Decimal Point Aligned Column
1334 A Better Decimal-Alignment Solution
1338 Itemize Bullet Selection
1355 Special Document Classes
1363 What these layouts provide
1389 Supported environments
1392 Commands not supported by LyX
1395 Figure and Table Floats
1412 Starting a New Paper
1415 Finishing Your Paper
1418 Comments On Specific Commands
1422 Things that work as expected
1425 Things that work, but require more comment
1428 Things not implemented, use ERT
1431 Things that cannot be implemented
1435 FAQs, Tips, Tricks, and Other Ruminations
1439 Getting LyX and AASTeX to cooperate
1442 LaTeX error processing a table
1453 Things I could have done, but didn't
1471 Preparing a paper for submission
1488 Preparing a paper for submission
1492 \begin_inset Quotes eld
1496 \begin_inset Quotes erd
1499 of the Kluwer package
1512 article (koma-script), report (koma-script), and book (koma-script)
1515 letter (koma-script)
1518 The new letter class: letter (koma-script v.2)
1569 Bugs and things to remember
1606 Paragraph Environments
1610 Supported Environments
1613 Quirks of the New Environments
1619 Making a Presentation with
1695 Supported Environments
1698 Building a Set of Foils
1702 Give It a Title Page
1708 Theorems, Lemmas, Proofs and more
1717 Page Headers and Footers
1741 Latex8 (IEEE Conference Papers)
1751 Supported Environments
1754 Differences Between Screen and Paper
1758 Hollywood (Hollywood spec scripts)
1771 Paper size and Margins
1794 Paper size and Margins
1821 Article (mwart), book (mwbk) and report (mwrep)
1836 Basic features and restrictions
1844 Importing and Exporting Alternate File Formats
1853 Importing Other Formats
1867 Exporting Other Formats
1874 Device Independent Files
1893 Why does the text look so bad when viewed with Acrobat Reader?
1902 boldsymbol{} command work when I use pslatex?
1909 Is it possible to do write latex code which is processed only when running
1915 How can I make URLs clickable ?
1923 The Complete reLyX Description
1945 What reLyX Can Handle
1948 What reLyX Can't Handle --- But it's OK
1951 What reLyX Handles Badly --- a.\SpecialChar ~
1959 What LyX Can't Handle
1975 Implementation Details:
2007 LyX Features needing Extra Software
2011 Using LyX with SGML-Tools (aka LinuxDoc)
2018 Preparing and using a LinuxDoc document
2025 Output from LinuxDoc
2029 Using the paragraph environments in LinuxDoc
2033 The Structure of a LinuxDoc Document
2036 The LinuxDoc Paragraph Environments
2039 Other document features
2042 Cross references and HTML
2046 Using the LinuxDoc Sgml scripts
2051 Troubleshooting LinuxDoc
2069 Version Control in LyX
2097 Revert To Last Version
2112 Literate Programming
2119 Literate Programming
2127 LyX and Literate Programming
2131 Generating documents and code (weaving and tangling)
2143 Colors customization
2149 Secrets of the LaTeX Masters
2155 Tricks for Footnotes and Margin Notes
2186 Columns inside columns
2195 Paragraph Environment
2200 Extra Space Between Table Rows
2206 Non-standard Paragraph Shapes
2213 Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User
2219 LyX configuration files
2231 Automatically generated files
2237 Files you don't want to modify
2240 Other files needing a line or two...
2244 Your local configuration directory
2247 Running LyX with multiple configurations
2262 Using the dialog for the first time
2269 DPI setting and Font Zoom
2272 Font definition commands
2289 Converters, Formats and Viewers
2292 ASCII export options
2303 The autodetected settings
2310 Internationalizing LyX
2316 Selecting an alternative language for the user interface
2323 Translating the graphical user interface (text messages).
2326 Translating the documentation.
2330 International Keyboard Support
2334 Defining Own Keymaps: Keymap File Format
2338 International Keymap Stuff
2353 Saving your Language Configuration
2358 Installing New Document Classes, Layouts, and Templates
2366 Installing a new LaTeX package
2373 Supporting new document classes
2391 Declaring a new text class
2395 General text class parameters
2405 Specific Paragraph Layouts
2424 Including External Material
2434 The external material dialog
2440 The external template configuration file
2443 The substitution mechanism
2457 Starting the LyX Server
2460 Normal communication
2466 The simple LyX Server Protocol
2469 8 \start_of_appendix
2496 ayout\SpecialChar \menuseparator
2535 Standard math bindings