-Using the dialog for the first time
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-\begin_layout Standard
-The
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-UserDir/preferences
-\end_layout
-
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- file will contain only changes that you have made to the default behavior,
- some of which is hard-coded into LyX and some of which is contained in
- the system file
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-LyXDir/lyxrc.defaults
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-.
- Note that in both files lines beginning with a
-\begin_inset Quotes eld
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-#
-\begin_inset Quotes erd
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- are just comments and are not interpreted.
- However, only system administrators should edit
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-LyXDir/lyxrc.defaults
-\end_layout
-
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-.
- Users should use the
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-Tools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-Preferences
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-
-\end_inset
-
- dialog to create and modify their own
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-UserDir/preferences
-\end_layout
-
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-
- file.
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Standard
-We hope that the
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-Tools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-Preferences
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-
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-
- dialog will be largely self-explanatory.
- Most things in the dialog have associated `tool tips': hover your mouse
- pointer over something for more information.
- Before we highlight a few of the more important commands below, however,
- a word of warning: Applying some of your changes (e.
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-g.
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-screen fonts) will have an instant effect.
- Others (e.
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-g.
-\begin_inset space \space{}
-\end_inset
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-changing the bind file) will not.
- If nothing appears to have changed, just
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-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-Save
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-
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- the changes and restart LyX.
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-\begin_layout Section
-File Handling
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-
-\begin_layout Standard
-LyX has a powerful mechanism to convert to and from any file format using
- external programs.
-
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-\begin_layout Subsection