1 #LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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29 LyX Documentation Table of Contents
44 Forskjeller mellom LyX og andre tekstbehandlere
57 (og hva angår det meg)?
61 Finne frem i dokumentasjonen
74 Bidrag til LyX-prosjektet
85 Bidra med retting og nye funksjoner
89 Bidrag til dokumentasjonen
93 Rapporter feil i manualene
96 Delta i dokumentasjonsteamet.
101 LyX Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
106 Introduction and General Information
113 That's fine, but is it useful?
119 Does LyX run on my computer?
122 How much hard disk space does LyX need?
125 Is LyX really Open Source?
133 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for LyX stuff?
136 Where can I get LyX material by FTP?
139 What mailing lists are there?
142 Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?
145 Okay, wise guy! Where are they archived?
149 Compatibility with other word/document processors
153 Can I read/write LaTeX files?
156 Can I read/write Word files?
159 Can I read/write HTML files?
163 Obtaining and Compiling LyX
174 Where are precompiled binaries?
178 Questions about Evil Red Text (IMPORTANT!)
182 What is Evil Red Text (aka ERT)?
185 How do I enter Evil Red Text?
188 The new ERT inset is really inconvenient !
191 Is there an alternative?
195 Questions Related to Using LyX
203 How do I get rid of the date under the title?
206 How do I change the spacing in an Itemize/\SpecialChar \-
207 Enumerate/\SpecialChar \-
208 Description list environment
212 How do I number equations by section?
215 Is it possible to do this for figures and tables as well?
218 How do I change to footnote numbers to symbols (star, dagger, etc.)?
221 How do I kill widows and orphans?
224 How do I get a formatted list which starts with e.g.
229 How do I count words in LyX?
232 How do I insert a fixed amount of horizontal space?
235 How can I make citations show up as [1,2,3,6] or [1-3,6] rather than [1][2][3][6
240 Figure related questions
244 What is the difference between a
245 \begin_inset Quotes eld
249 \begin_inset Quotes erd
253 \begin_inset Quotes eld
257 \begin_inset Quotes erd
263 How do I get LyX to put the figure exactly where I want it?
267 \begin_inset Quotes eld
270 Too many unprocessed floats
271 \begin_inset Quotes erd
278 Math related questions
282 How do I put normal text inside a mathematical equation?
285 How do I make a cube root (or higher)?
290 Questions Related to Running LyX
294 How do I convert LyX files to LaTeX from the command line?
297 How do I create PDF files from my LyX document?
300 Why do the fonts in my document look so bad in
307 Why doesn't my latest and greatest version of Ghostscript render EPS inline
312 Questions Related to LyX on Windows
316 Why do the menus and the toolbar flicker ?
320 How to get further assistance
324 You still haven't answered my question!
327 I want to mail someone about my problem.
331 What to put in a request for help.
335 Administrative information and acknowledgments
343 Formats in which this FAQ is available.
347 Authorship and acknowledgments.
350 Disclaimer and Copyright.
375 Getting the Most out of the Tutorial
387 Getting Started with LyX
391 Your First LyX Document
395 Typing, Viewing, and Printing
401 WYSIWYM: Whitespace in LyX
409 Sections and Subsections
415 Other Environments: Verses, Quotations, and More
427 Templates: Writing a Letter
433 Labels and Cross-References
440 Your first cross-references
447 Footnotes and Margin Notes
464 Navigating an Equation
467 Exponents and Indices
479 Square roots, accents, and delimiters
485 TeX mode: Limits, log, sin and others
503 Other Major LyX Features
513 Importing LaTeX Documents---
518 Converting LyX Documents to LaTeX
528 Other Preamble Matter
573 Basic File Operations
576 Basic Editing Features
589 Using LyX with Other Programs
593 Importing ASCII files
596 Cut and Paste Between LyX and Other X Programs
601 LyX Setup and Supporting Applications
611 Setting Up the X Keyboard
636 Modifiers and Mode_switch
639 Helpful Hints and Tips
646 Dvips and Ghostscript
656 Ghostscript, Xdvi and Ghostview
677 The Various Document Classes
691 Fine-tuning the Defaults
694 Paper Size, Orientation, and Margins
701 Paragraph Indentation and Separation
708 Global Indentation Method
714 Changing Line Spacing
718 Paragraph Environments
743 Changing the Numbering
865 What You Can and Can't Nest
868 Nesting Other Things: Tables, Math, Floats, etc.
871 Usage and General Features
883 Example #1: The Six-fold Way and Mixed Nesting
886 Example #2: Inheritance
889 Example #3: Labels, Levels, and the
900 Example #4: Going Bonkers
905 Fonts and Text Styles
915 Using Different Character Styles
926 Printing and Previewing
938 Viewing the PostScript® Version with
947 A Few Words about Typography
951 Hyphens and Hyphenation
958 Abbreviations and End of Sentence
973 Floats: Tables, Figures, Footnotes and Margin Notes
985 Figures and Imported Graphics
1015 What can be placed inside a table cell?
1018 Cut & Paste in Tables
1021 Multiple lines in cells
1028 Table of Contents and other Listings
1032 The Table of Contents
1035 List of Figures, Tables and Algorithms
1040 Mathematical Formulae
1048 Navigating a Formula
1054 Exponents and Subscripts
1078 The math editor for LaTeX users
1082 Brackets and decorations
1088 Arrays and Multi-line Equations
1091 Equation Numbering and Labels
1094 User defined macros in math mode
1098 Directions on using macros
1128 Enabling AMS Support
1146 URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
1149 Specifying Short Titles with Optional Arguments
1154 Spacing, pagination and line breaks
1158 Extra Horizontal Space
1161 Extra Vertical Space
1164 Changing Paragraph Alignment
1181 Spellchecker Options
1199 International Support
1206 Keyboard mapping configuration
1217 Extended LyX Features
1231 \begin_inset Quotes eld
1234 Help! LyX generated an unreadable
1239 \begin_inset Quotes erd
1245 Translating LaTeX files into LyX
1248 Inserting LaTeX Code into LyX Documents
1253 LyX and the LaTeX Preamble
1257 About the LaTeX Preamble
1260 Changing the Preamble
1273 Example #3: Paragraph Indentation
1276 Example #4: This Document
1281 LyX and LaTeX Errors
1289 Preparing a Bibliography with BibTeX
1302 Cross-References Between Files
1312 Fancy Headers and Footers
1318 Wrapping Text Around Figures
1327 Removing Extra Column Space
1330 Changing the Column Separator Character
1333 Making a Decimal Point Aligned Column
1336 A Better Decimal-Alignment Solution
1340 Itemize Bullet Selection
1357 Special Document Classes
1365 What these layouts provide
1391 Supported environments
1394 Commands not supported by LyX
1397 Figure and Table Floats
1414 Starting a New Paper
1417 Finishing Your Paper
1420 Comments On Specific Commands
1424 Things that work as expected
1427 Things that work, but require more comment
1430 Things not implemented, use ERT
1433 Things that cannot be implemented
1437 FAQs, Tips, Tricks, and Other Ruminations
1441 Getting LyX and AASTeX to cooperate
1444 LaTeX error processing a table
1455 Things I could have done, but didn't
1473 Preparing a paper for submission
1490 Preparing a paper for submission
1494 \begin_inset Quotes eld
1498 \begin_inset Quotes erd
1501 of the Kluwer package
1514 article (koma-script), report (koma-script), and book (koma-script)
1517 letter (koma-script)
1520 The new letter class: letter (koma-script v.2)
1571 Bugs and things to remember
1608 Paragraph Environments
1612 Supported Environments
1615 Quirks of the New Environments
1621 Making a Presentation with
1697 Supported Environments
1700 Building a Set of Foils
1704 Give It a Title Page
1710 Theorems, Lemmas, Proofs and more
1719 Page Headers and Footers
1743 Latex8 (IEEE Conference Papers)
1753 Supported Environments
1756 Differences Between Screen and Paper
1760 Hollywood (Hollywood spec scripts)
1773 Paper size and Margins
1796 Paper size and Margins
1823 Article (mwart), book (mwbk) and report (mwrep)
1838 Basic features and restrictions
1846 Importing and Exporting Alternate File Formats
1855 Importing Other Formats
1869 Exporting Other Formats
1876 Device Independent Files
1895 Why does the text look so bad when viewed with Acrobat Reader?
1904 boldsymbol{} command work when I use pslatex?
1911 Is it possible to do write latex code which is processed only when running
1917 How can I make URLs clickable ?
1925 The Complete reLyX Description
1947 What reLyX Can Handle
1950 What reLyX Can't Handle --- But it's OK
1953 What reLyX Handles Badly --- a.\SpecialChar ~
1961 What LyX Can't Handle
1977 Implementation Details:
2009 LyX Features needing Extra Software
2013 Using LyX with SGML-Tools (aka LinuxDoc)
2020 Preparing and using a LinuxDoc document
2027 Output from LinuxDoc
2031 Using the paragraph environments in LinuxDoc
2035 The Structure of a LinuxDoc Document
2038 The LinuxDoc Paragraph Environments
2041 Other document features
2044 Cross references and HTML
2048 Using the LinuxDoc Sgml scripts
2053 Troubleshooting LinuxDoc
2071 Version Control in LyX
2099 Revert To Last Version
2114 Literate Programming
2121 Literate Programming
2129 LyX and Literate Programming
2133 Generating documents and code (weaving and tangling)
2145 Colors customization
2151 Secrets of the LaTeX Masters
2157 Tricks for Footnotes and Margin Notes
2188 Columns inside columns
2197 Paragraph Environment
2202 Extra Space Between Table Rows
2208 Non-standard Paragraph Shapes
2215 Customizing LyX: Features for the Advanced User
2221 LyX configuration files
2233 Automatically generated files
2239 Files you don't want to modify
2242 Other files needing a line or two...
2246 Your local configuration directory
2249 Running LyX with multiple configurations
2264 Using the dialog for the first time
2271 DPI setting and Font Zoom
2274 Font definition commands
2291 Converters, Formats and Viewers
2294 ASCII export options
2305 The autodetected settings
2312 Internationalizing LyX
2318 Selecting an alternative language for the user interface
2325 Translating the graphical user interface (text messages).
2328 Translating the documentation.
2332 International Keyboard Support
2336 Defining Own Keymaps: Keymap File Format
2340 International Keymap Stuff
2355 Saving your Language Configuration
2360 Installing New Document Classes, Layouts, and Templates
2368 Installing a new LaTeX package
2375 Supporting new document classes
2393 Declaring a new text class
2397 General text class parameters
2407 Specific Paragraph Layouts
2426 Including External Material
2436 The external material dialog
2442 The external template configuration file
2445 The substitution mechanism
2459 Starting the LyX Server
2462 Normal communication
2468 The simple LyX Server Protocol
2471 8 \start_of_appendix
2498 ayout\SpecialChar \menuseparator
2537 Standard math bindings