-#LyX 1.6.0beta3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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+#LyX 1.6.0svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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-At this time, you need to have the X Window system to run LyX.
- OS/2 and Win32 ports exist, but you need to have an Xserver installed and
- running on these systems.
- LyX is known to run on the following platforms (and probably a zillion
- others):
+LyX is known to run on the following platforms (and probably a zillion others):
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+Linux distributions: Debian, RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo,
+ etc
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+Microsoft Window NT, 2000, XP, Vista (Windows 95/98/Me editions are not
+ supported)
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-Linux: RedHat 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, SUSE 5.x, Mandrake 7.0, 7.2
+MacOSX (starting from 10.1)
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-On my system, the LyX binary consumes 2.0 MB of disk space, while the supporting
- files occupy another 12.6 MB (9.1 MB of which is consumed by the docs! You
- can delete the languages you don't care about to save some space).
+Binary size depends on the system, the LyX binary consumes 13 MB of disk
+ space on Windows, while the supporting files occupy another 25 MB (17 MB
+ of which is consumed by the docs! You can delete the languages you don't
+ care about to save some space).
Of course, you do need to have something like teTeX installed which consumes
a mere 115 MB, as well as ghostscript, which is another 10 MB!
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Yes.
- The freely available X toolkit that LyX uses, xforms, was until recently
- closed source.
- Also the other toolkit that LyX uses, Qt, although a proprietary product
- of Troll Tech, is used in its open source variant.
- The LyX source itself is available under the GPL, so it qualifies.
-
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-Version 1.0 of xforms is available under the LGPL and its sources (and binaries)
- can be found from
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-http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/xforms-1.0.tar.gz
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-, which however requires some tinkering to get running.
- Qt tends to come with your distribution.
+ The freely available GUI toolkit that LyX uses, Qt, although a proprietary
+ product of Troll Tech, is used in its open source GPL variant.
+ The LyX source itself is also available under the GPL, so it qualifies.
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, if you want to report a bug in LyX.
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-www.devel.lyx.org
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-, if you are interested in the real blood and guts.
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-Known mirror sites include:
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-www.mx.lyx.org
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-www.no.lyx.org
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-www.it.lyx.org
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-
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Where can I get LyX material by FTP?
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; definitely see
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-http://www.lyx.org/internet/mailing.php3
+http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists
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Announce:
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Users:
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Devel:
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Not trivially.
- People have had some level of success with the following sequence: LyX
-\begin_inset Formula $\rightarrow$
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+ See these page:
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-LaTeX
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+http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ConvertingFromWord
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-RTF
-\begin_inset Formula $\rightarrow$
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-Word, and vice versa.
- However, Word is inherently not a markup language like LyX and LaTeX are,
- so conversions are usually difficult and almost meaningless.
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+ and also the converters section which will give another possibilities of
+ conversion routes:
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-However, here are a few suggestions which were sent in:
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-word2x produces LaTeX, HTML and plain text output.
- The LaTeX is importable in principle (and is rather clean) but I often
- prefer plain text and add the formatting back in.
- (This requires that you have knowledge on the original formatting).
- On last writing did not yet handle Office 2000 Word.
+http://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware#toc9
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-wvware (found at www.wvware.com, or the abisource CVS repository for the latest).
- This was previously called msWordView.
- Very good, only tends to produce visually formatted LaTeX/HTML.
- Is however highly configurable: a config file
-\family typewriter
-wvLaTeX.xml
-\family default
- guides the translation process.
- Handles also the newest Office formats.
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-\begin_layout Description
-Ted This is the editor to use when someone sends you an RTF file created
- by Word.
- Fine product.
- Mail yourself the converted version (plain text or HTML).
+.
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-For me personally, at least, it's faster doing this than cleaning up attempts
- at a conversion, though it is certainly unsatisfactory if you need to go
- back and forth a lot.
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Can I read/write HTML files?
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converter program, amongst others.
- There may be a HTML
+ There is a HTML
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-LaTeX program available which allows you to convert the other direction.
+LaTeX program available (html2latex) which allows you to convert the other
+ direction.
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-XForms library: xforms-0.88 or higher (using the latest version available
- is recommended)
+Qt library: Qt-4.2.0 or higher (using the latest version available is recommended)
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-A LaTeX installation: we strongly recommend teTeX-1.0 or higher
+A LaTeX installation: we strongly recommend teTeX/TeXLive on Linux, MikTeX
+ on Window
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A modern C++ compiler.
- If you are using gcc, LyX requires at least version 2.95.2.
+ If you are using gcc, LyX requires at least version 3.2.0.
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-Most of the above packages are available as precompiled binaries for a variety
+Most of the above packages are available as precompiled binaries in a variety
of Linux systems, perhaps others as well.
- The LyX binaries are available as RPMS and a few other formats and may
- be obtained from
+ The LyX binaries are available as RPMS, Windows and Mac installers, plus
+ a few other formats and may be obtained from
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LyX will auto-label the entries.
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-How do I count words in LyX?
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-
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-Run a spellcheck; it will display the total number of words checked.
- Make sure the cursor is at the top of the document when you start the spellchec
-ker so that everything is counted.
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-
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How do I insert a fixed amount of horizontal space?
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This should work anywhere, whether or not X is actually running.
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-How do I create PDF files from my LyX document?
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-Read Section 5.3.6 of the
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-Extended Features
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- manual.
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Why do the fonts in my document look so bad in
\family typewriter
manual.
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-Why doesn't my latest and greatest version of Ghostscript render EPS inline
- figures properly?
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-
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-[Note: this only applies to versions of LyX older than 1.2.0, since the graphics
- rendering code has been rewritten in this version]
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-
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-A couple of users reported that they couldn't get recent Ghostscript versions
- to display inline figures in LyX.
- It transpires that this is a Ghostscript bug:
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-
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-http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=124957&group_id=1897
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-\noindent
-This bug appears to affect Ghostscript 6.22 and upwards.
- After applying the above mentioned patch, rendering in Lyx works fine again.
- GNU Ghostscript 6.53 and above include this fix.
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Questions Related to LyX on Windows
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Examples
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.
+ Don't forget we have Tips and Tricks database in LyX wiki.
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