Typing, Viewing, and Printing

• Open a new file with File $\triangleright$New
• Type a sentence like: This is my first LyX document!
• Save your document with File $\triangleright$Save As.
• Run L^ATEX to create a dvi file, with View $\triangleright$DVI. You may see things being printed in the window you ran the lyx command from. These are messages from L^ATEX, which you can ignore for now. LYX will run xdvi (or some other dvi viewer), which will pop up a new window displaying what your document will look like when printed.^2.3
• Print by using File $\triangleright$Print and hitting OK.

Congratulations! You've written and printed your first LYX document. All of the rest is just details, which is covered in the rest of the Tutorial, the User's Guide, and the Extended Features.