keys for everything.
Sometimes, there are simply not enough free letters to do it.
Other times, the translator just hasn't got around to doing it yet.
- We'll try to fix these shortcomings in future versions of LyX.
+ Our localization team -- which you may wish to join -- will try to fix
+ these shortcomings in future versions of LyX.
\layout Section
Selecting an alternative language for the user interface
On some systems, you may have to redefine
\family typewriter
-LANGUAGE
-\family default
-,
-\family typewriter
LC_ALL
\family default
or
\family typewriter
LANG
\family default
-, to override the system settings; their preference is in this order.
+, to override the system settings; their preference is in this order
+\begin_inset Foot
+collapsed true
+
+\layout Standard
+
+The shell variable LANGUAGE has been disabled in LyX for technical reasons.
+ Don't use it.
+\end_inset
+
+, which corresponds to the way GNU
+\family typewriter
+gettext
+\family default
+ does it.
Consult your system documentation.
Normally, you'll want to put the appropriate line in a shell script run
on start-up, so that the translation is on by default.
\emph on
all
\emph default
- localized packages!
+ localized packages, not only LyX!
\layout Standard
If LyX is configured and compiled with
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
-, this will not work.
+, this mechanism will not work.
\layout Section
Translating LyX
\layout Standard
Yes.
- Some may quibble that since the freely available X toolkit that LyX uses,
- xforms, is currently closed source, LyX is less than Pure and Holy.
- Nonsense.
- The LyX source itself is available under a slightly modified version of
- the GPL, so it qualifies.
- Also, the developers of LyX are working on making it toolkit independent,
- so that next major version 1.3.0 will have Qt2/3 support; and even if not,
- version 1.0 of xforms will be released under the LGPL (at the time of this
- writing, prereleases of version 1.0 are available in source form from
-\begin_inset LatexCommand \url{ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/OpenSource/}
+ 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.
+
+\layout Standard
+
+Version 1.0 of xforms is available under the LGPL and its sources (and binaries)
+ can be found from
+\begin_inset LatexCommand \url{http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/xforms-1.0.tar.gz}
\end_inset
-.
+, which however requires some tinkering to get running.
+ Qt tends to come with your distribution.
\layout Section
Internet Resources
Yes.
LyX outputs LaTeX files that are either machine or human friendly.
- The reLyX program that comes with LyX does a decent job of converting LaTeX
- into LyX.
+ The
+\family typewriter
+tex2lyx
+\family default
+ program that comes with LyX does a decent job of converting LaTeX into
+ LyX.
It's not perfect, but it will usually get at least 95% of the job done
for you.
\layout Subsection
Mail yourself the converted version (plain text or HTML).
\layout Standard
-Finally, when all else fails, use any word processor (WordPerfect, StarOffice,
- ...) which understands Word.
+Finally, when all else fails, use any word processor (WordPerfect, StarOffice/Op
+enOffice, ...) which understands Word.
Then export as the file as plain text and add the formatting by hand in
LyX.
- For me personally, at least, it's faster doing this than cleaning up attempts
+
+\layout Standard
+
+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.
\layout Subsection
\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 branched automatically opened.
+ those belonging to activated branches automatically opened.
\layout Standard
-Other possible applications of the Branches paradisgm include a
+Other possible applications of the Branches paradigm include a
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
- of a textbook containing the answers tro questions, etc.
+ of a textbook containing the answers to questions, etc.
\begin_inset Note
collapsed true