- has its own manpage.
- Read it to find out which LaTeX commands and environments are not supported,
- bugs (and how to get around them), and how to use the various options.
+ has its own documentation (manpage), which Unix/Linux users can access
+ via the console command
+\family typewriter
+man
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+tex2lyx
+\family default
+.
+ The manpage describes which LaTeX commands and environments are not supported,
+ what bugs you might run into (and how to get around them), and how to use
+ the various options.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+It is important to understand that
+\family typewriter
+tex2lyx
+\family default
+ can only translate files whose document class is
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+known
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ to LyX, that is, for which there is a corresponding LyX
+\family sans
+layout file
+\family default
+.
+ If there is no layout file, then you will get an error saying that the
+ conversion could not be performed.
+ So, unless you have a layout for the document class of your LaTeX file,
+
+\family typewriter
+tex2lyx
+\family default
+ simply will not know how to translate the LaTeX that it finds there into
+ things LyX understands.
+ More about layout files and how they are created is explained in detail
+ in Chapter 5 of the
+\emph on
+Customization
+\emph default
+ manual.