Other Major LYX Features

We haven't gone through all the possible commands in LYX, and we aren't planning on it. As usual, see the User's Guide for more information. We'll just mention a couple more major things LYX can do...

• LYX has WYSIWYM support for tables. Use the Insert $\triangleright$Tabular Material to get a table. Click on the table with the right button to get a Tabular Layout dialog box which allows extensive table editing.
• LYX also supports including pictures in a number of formats (including JPEG and other bitmap formats, PostScript®#circledR; and raw L^ATEX) within documents. (You guessed it: Insert $\triangleright$Graphics. Then click on the figure to choose the file to include, rotate or scale it, etc.) Tables and figures can have captions, and LYX will automatically generate lists of figures and/or tables.
• Version control is supported, using RCS (man rcsintro for more info).
• LYX is heavily configurable. Everything from how the LYX window looks to how the output comes out can be configured in a number of ways. Much configuration is done through Edit $\triangleright$Preferences. For more information on this, check out Help $\triangleright$Customization.
• LYX is being developed by a team of programmers on five continents. Therefore, LYX has better support for non-English languages (such as Dutch, German, French, Greek, Czech, Turkish, ...) than many word processors. Even some right-to-left languages like Hebrew or Arabic are supported. You can write documents in other languages, but you can also configure LYX to show its menus and error messages in other languages.
• The LYX menus feature keybindings. This means that you can do File $\triangleright$Open by typing M-F followed by O or by using the binding which is shown next to it in the menu (C-O by default). Keybindings are also configurable. For information on this, check out Help $\triangleright$Customization.
• LYX can read in L^ATEX documents. See Section .
• Spellchecking and thesaurus facilities are available.
• The text box near the bottom of the LYX window is called the minibuffer (after a similar feature in emacs). This gives you access to all sorts of interesting functionality, including functionality which could break your document. In other words, don't type in the minibuffer unless you know what you're doing.