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-.TH LYX 1 "May 2002" "Version 1.3" "LyX 1.3"
+.TH LYX 1 "Jan 2003" "Version 1.3" "LyX 1.3"
.SH NAME
lyx \- A Document Processor
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.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBlyx\fR [ \fIcommand-line switches\fR] [\fIname.lyx ...\fR ]
+\fBlyx\fR [ \fIcommand-line switches\fR ] [ \fIname[.lyx] ...\fR ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBLyX\fR is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page
format. If your system is properly configured, you can access the full
documentation within \fBLyX\fR under the Help menu.
-\fBLyX\fR is a document preparation system. It excels at letting you create
-complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics,
+\fBLyX\fR is a document preparation system. It excels at letting you
+create complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics,
cross-references, bibliographies, indices, etc. It is very good at
documents of any length in which the usual processing abilities are
required: automatic sectioning and pagination, spellchecking, and so
forth. It can also be used to write a letter to your mom, though
granted, there are probably simpler programs available for that. It is
definitely not the best tool for creating banners, flyers, or
-advertisements (we'll explain why later), though with some effort all
-these can be done, too. Some examples of what it is used for: memos,
-letters, dissertations and theses, lecture notes, seminar notebooks,
-conference proceedings, software documentation, books (on PostgreSQL,
-remote sensing, cryptology, fictional novels, poetry, and even a
-children's book or two), articles in refereed scientific journals,
-scripts for plays and movies, business proposals... you get the idea.
+advertisements, though with some effort all these can be done, too.
+Some examples of what it is used for: memos, letters, dissertations
+and theses, lecture notes, seminar notebooks, conference proceedings,
+software documentation, books (on PostgreSQL, remote sensing,
+cryptology, fictional novels, poetry, and even a children's book or
+two), articles in refereed scientific journals, scripts for plays and
+movies, business proposals... you get the idea.
-Currently, \fBLyX\fR uses the XForms library as a toolkit. \fBLyX\fR
-should run everywhere, where XForms runs. This is on all major Unix
-platforms as well as Windows, Mac OS X (which actually is a unix
-platform) and OS/2.
+Currently, \fBLyX\fR uses either the XForms or Qt library as a
+toolkit. \fBLyX\fR should run everywhere, where these libraries run.
+This is on all major Unix platforms as well as Windows, Mac OS X
+(which actually is a unix platform) and OS/2.
.SH OPTIONS
-\fBLyX\fR supports the following command-line switches, which can also
-be specified as X resources (e. g. in .Xdefaults) with class
-name \fBLyX\fR:
+\fBLyX\fR supports the following command-line switches.
.TP 6
.BI \-help
summarizes LyX usage
sets user directory. Needed if you want to use LyX with different lyxrc
settings.
.TP
-.BI \-geometry " WxH+X+Y"
-specifies the preferred size and position of the main \fBLyX\fR window; see \fIX(1)\fR.
-.TP
.BI \-dbg " feature[,feature...]"
where feature is a name or number.
Use "\fBlyx -dbg\fR" to see the list of available debug features.
\fB -i [--import]\fP \fIfmt file.xxx
where fmt is the import format of choice and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-.PP
-Furthermore, \fBLyX\fR understands the following generic command line options
-from the \fBForms Library\fR:
+.SH XFORMS FRONTEND OPTIONS
+When compiled with the XForms frontend, \fBLyX\fR understands the
+following generic command line options from the \fBForms Library\fR,
+which can also be specified as X resources (e. g. in .Xdefaults) with
+class name \fBLyX\fR.
.TP 6
+.BI \-geometry " WxH+X+Y"
+specifies the preferred size and position of the main \fBLyX\fR
+window; see \fIX(1)\fR.
+.TP
.BI \-display " host:display"
specifies the server to connect to.
.TP
.SH FILES
.nf
.ta \w'\fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc.in 'u
-~/.lyx/lyxrc Personal configuration file
+~/.lyx/preferences Personal configuration file
+~/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults Personal autodetected configuration file
\fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc System wide configuration file
-\fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc.example System wide configuration file template
+\fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc.defaults System wide autodetected configuration file
\fILIBDIR\fR/configure Updates \fBLyX\fR if config has changed
\fILIBDIR\fR/bind/ Keybindings
\fILIBDIR\fR/clipart/ Clipart pictures
\fBLaTeX\fR import is still not perfect and may produce buggy *.lyx
files. Consult the \fBreLyX\fR documentation.
-XFree on OS/2 currently does not support PC codepages. If you use
-\fBemTeX\fR to preview/print with cp850, etc., this might lead to
-strange \fBemTeX\fR error messages.
-.B Remedy:
- 1) In filenames use only A-Z, a-z, 1-9.
- 2) Install a recent \fBLaTeX\fR package inputenc.sty. Select Layout->Document->encoding:latin1, so that \fBreLyX\fR adds the \fBLaTeX\fR command '\\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}'.
-
-\fBLyX\fR server has some limitations under OS/2: See
-Help->Customization for details.
-
-Preview of inline images in rare cases does not show the image. If you
-want to preview the image, just click on it and choose fullscreen
-preview.
-
-If you have performance problems, please go through the
-Edit>Preferences... dialog. It contains settings that can be used to
-improve performance on slow systems.
.SH AUTHORS
Copyright
.Cr
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Matthias Ettrich
(ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and the rest of the \fBLyX
-Team\fR (See Credits under the Help menu item).
+Team\fR (See About LyX under the Help menu item).
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