files.
\layout Section
-Setting Up the X Keyboard
+Setting Up the X Keyboard [obsolescent]
\begin_inset LatexCommand \label{sec:x-win-keys}
\end_inset
\layout Standard
-To use LyX properly, you
+To use LyX properly, X
\emph on
must
\emph default
- set X up correctly.
+ be set up correctly.
This is especially vital if you're using the international support features
of LyX and want to use non-English keyboard mappings.
- Unfortunately, almost nobody bothers to do this, especially those who've
- installed Linux on a PC\SpecialChar \@.
- Administrators of large systems can be guilty of
- this, too, so don't assume that you're safe if you're using a large system.
- Any user can instruct X how to use his or her keyboard.
+ On modern distributions, this likely has been taken care of, but if not,
+ you must do this yourself.
+ Administrators of large systems often neglect this, so don't assume that
+ you're safe if you're using a large system.
+ Also ordinary users can instruct X how to use his or her keyboard.
\layout Subsection
xmodmap and xkeycaps
xkeycaps
\layout Standard
-This program is a dream come true! It brings up a graphical version of your
- keyboard, allows you to make modifications, and then spits those modifications
- out to the standard output in a form readable by
+This program brings up a graphical version of your keyboard, allows you
+ to make modifications, and then spits those modifications out to the standard
+ output in a form readable by
\family typewriter
xmodmap
\family default
comes to mind.
And, as the old saying implies, documents that overuse different fonts
- and sizes tend to look like someone's knocked huge holes in it.
+ and sizes tend to look like someone's knocked huge holes in them.
\layout Standard
Enough complaining.
there is one in the printed version.
\layout Standard
-One last note about hyphenation --- LyX automatically breaks up words and
+One more note about hyphenation --- LyX automatically breaks up words and
inserts hyphens in English text.
- (Actually, it's LaTeX that does this, and it will also hyphenate words
- in
+ The words won't be hyphenated until you generate the final output.
+\layout Standard
+
+Actually, it's LaTeX that does this, and it will also hyphenate words in
+
\emph on
some
\emph default
- other languages.) The words won't be hyphenated until you generate the final
- output.
+ other languages.
+ To know whether (PDF)LaTeX hyphenates for
+\emph on
+your
+\emph default
+ language, look at any log file produced by a LaTeX run: it will say
+\layout Quote
+
+
+\family typewriter
+Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman,
+ nohyphenation, loaded.
\layout Standard
-If, for some reason, LaTeX can't break a word correctly, you can set hyphenation
+This tells you that, e.g., if you write in Finnish, you're out of luck.
+ Study (for the teTeX distribution of LaTeX) the utilities
+\family typewriter
+texconfig
+\family default
+ and
+\family typewriter
+fmtutil
+\family default
+ in order to switch hyphenation on for your language by ''uncommenting''
+ the relevant line in a file typically named
+\family typewriter
+language.dat
+\family default
+.
+ Sorry for the inconvenience.
+\layout Standard
+
+If, for whatever reason, LaTeX
+\emph on
+still
+\emph default
+ can't break a word correctly (e.g., a compound word), you can set hyphenation
points manually.
This is done with the menu item
\family sans
The title of this section is a good example of using this feature.
\layout Section
+Branches
+\layout Standard
+
+Sometimes you wish to be able to output to paper multiple versions of the
+ same document.
+ The most extreme version of this is, when you want to prepare a single
+ document in two or more different languages, but as a single document file,
+ with corresponding pieces of text adjacent in the file and on-screen.
+ This can be achieved with
+\emph on
+branches
+\emph default
+.
+\layout Standard
+
+First, you have to
+\emph on
+define
+\emph default
+the branches available within a particular document.
+ This is done in the
+\family sans
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Branches
+\family default
+ tab.
+ You can also associate a background colour with each branch, e.g., red for
+ the English language, blue for the German language branch.
+ Then, you create a branch inset from the
+\family sans
+Insert\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Branch
+\family default
+ menu item.
+ The inset will contain the text that you want to be output when this branch
+ is activated.
+\layout Standard
+
+
+\emph on
+Activation
+\emph default
+or
+\emph on
+deactivation
+\emph default
+ of a branch is done from the document settings menu.
+ All insets belonging to deactivated branches will be automatically closed,
+ those belonging to activated branches automatically opened.
+\layout Standard
+
+Other possible applications of the Branches paradigm include a
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+teacher's version
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ of a textbook containing the answers to questions, etc.
+\begin_inset Note
+collapsed true
+
+\layout Standard
+
+Once this doc is updated to 1.4, include branch examples here!
+\end_inset
+
+
+\layout Section
+
Previewing snippets of your document
\layout Standard
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