... Team¹

Principal maintainer of this file is AMIR KARGER. If you have comments or error corrections, please send them to the LYX Documentation mailing list, <lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org>.

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... idiosyncrasies^1.1

or, more optimistically, ``features''

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... file^2.1

They can also serve as good examples of how to use the many features of LYX.

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... things^2.2

The hints are located in yellow ``Notes''. Access the text in a note by clicking on it.

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...^2.3

You can save time by leaving xdvi running in the background. Then, you can use View $\triangleright$Update $\triangleright$DVI and just click on the xdvi window (or unminimize it) after L^ATEX finishes running.

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... found^2.4

Close the window when you're done. Or leave it open if you find it more convenient. Most dialog boxes in LYX -- including the Find & Replace, Table of Contents, and Layout dialogs, as well as the various math dialogs can operate like this. A few dialogs, like File $\triangleright$Open, won't let you type anything in the main LYX window until you actually close the dialog. Just be sure you have the right window focus when you're trying to type in the main LYX window or give a command in some other LYX dialog.

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... menu^2.5

You don't have to select the line. If nothing is selected, LYX changes the paragraph you are currently in to the selected environment. Alternatively, you can change several paragraphs to a different environment by selecting them before picking an environment.

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...^2.6

Yes, we're overemphasizing this point throughout the Tutorial. But it is the main philosophy of LYX, so please forgive us.

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... list^2.7

LYX won't let you select the first bullet unless you also select the paragraph before the list, which you probably don't want to do. Similarly, you can't select the actual number in a numbered section title. Don't worry about it.

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...``Tab''^2.8

But a typesetter's tab, which will change to fit the size of the largest term, not a pathetic, rigid, unchangeable typewriter Tab.

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... class^3.1

L^ATEX users: this is equivalent to the L^ATEX document class

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... class^3.2

That's usually the default text class

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... someone^3.3

One warning, if you're writing from a template. If you erase all of the text in an environment -- for example, if you erase the whole My Address field so that you can replace it with your own -- and then you move the cursor without writing any text, the environment may disappear. This is because most environments cannot exist without any text in them. Just reselect the environment from the Environment menu to get it back.

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...^3.4

You should not be using the letter any more, since the Letter textclass doesn't allow titles.

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... document^3.5

By the way, copying a chapter title may cause an error, because chapters aren't allowed in the article class. If this happens, just delete the chapter title. If you want to know why this happens, see Section .

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... toolbar^3.6

The button shows an arrow pointing to red text, which is just below some black text.

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... button^3.7

It may be easier to select it using the keyboard. You might accidentally open the footnote if you're trying to select the marker itself with the mouse.

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... easily^4.1

LYX can't check if the math you're writing is actually correct. Sorry.

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... like^4.2

After you've done it the hard way, why don't you give Insert $\triangleright$Math $\triangleright$Cases environment a try?

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... line^5.1

When LYX is installed, a separate executable called reLyX will be placed in the same folder as the lyx executable (e.g., /usr/local/bin/reLyX). reLyX requires Perl (version 5.002 as of this writing).

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... command^5.2

Like in regular L^ATEX, multiple bibliographies should be separated by commas, with no whitespace.

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