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Documentation

Links to documentation about LyX and related to LyX.

Regarding copyrights and license of material contributed to this wiki, please see Site.copyrights.

Help documents distributed with LyX

The LyX installation comes with several help documents, look under the menu Help. There you should find for instance: Introduction, Tutorial and the User's guide. See LyX help documents for more information.

Some of these manuals (for LyX 1.4.2) can be found in PDF format here:

• intro.pdf (501142 bytes, 2006-07-18 22:11 GMT)
• Customization.pdf (868280 bytes, 2006-07-18 05:29 GMT)
• Extended.pdf (1148681 bytes, 2006-07-18 05:29 GMT)
• Tutorial.pdf (660578 bytes, 2006-07-18 05:29 GMT)
• UserGuide.pdf (1164705 bytes, 2006-07-18 05:29 GMT)

The source of the manuals can be retrieved via the source repository at LyXDoc:/

Merged manuals

• Searchable Contents of combined Tutorial, User, Extended, & Customization Guides
  • merged_manuals-1.4.2.lyx (1423949 bytes, 2006-07-18 20:48 GMT)
  • merged_manuals-1.4.2.pdf (3926479 bytes, 2006-07-18 20:45 GMT)

Generic and introductory documentation

• Frequently Asked Questions related to LyX
• Examples of using LyX
• Tutorials on using and doing various with LyX
• Manuals: A place for additional manuals (or links to them) about LyX
  • ManPage: The man page for LyX
  • Extended-Insets LyX’s extended Boxes, Figure, Floats, Notes, and Table manual
  • DocumentationDevelopment: Homepage of LyX's Documentation Development
  • LyXMathebefehle: LyXMathebefehle is a German documentation of mathed.
• Suggested reading: Suggested reading material with information about LyX, LaTeX and BibTeX etc.
• Screencasts: (:redirect Screencasts-HowToCreateThem:)

Documentation about specific aspects/parts

• LyX help documents: This page describes the help documents that come with an installation of LyX.
• Concepts: LyX concepts — about layouts, classes and styles
• Suggested reading: Suggested reading material with information about LyX, LaTeX and BibTeX etc.
• LyxFunctions: About lyx-functions (LFUN:s), a.k.a. user commands
• mini-buffer: The mini-buffer - manually entering commands (LyxFunctions)
• LyXServer: The LyX server communicates with LyX via named pipes.
• FiguresInLyX: Figures in LyX
• MathInLyX: Writing math in LyX using the Math Editor.
• InstantPreview: Instant Preview
• LinguistLyX: Using LyX for Linguistic Papers
• HumanitiesLyX: Using LyX for Humanities Papers
• Lyx with R through Sweave: How to use LyX together with R
• Fonts: Choosing Fonts
• Tables: Table formatting
• I18nLabels: About internationalized labels
• Customization: Adapt LyX to your needs
• Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting your LyX installation
• Concepts: LyX concepts — about layouts, classes and styles
  • Creating layouts: Tips and links related to creating your own LyX layout-files
• MathInLyX: Writing math in LyX using the Math Editor.
  • InstantPreview: Instant Preview
• LinguistLyX: Using LyX for Linguistic Papers
• FiguresInLyX: Figures in LyX
• Presentations: A page about how you can use LyX to create presentations, and also presentation tools useful with LyX.
• LaTeX.LaTeX: About using LaTeX with LyX
• BibTeX.BibTeX: About using BibTeX with LyX
• XeTeX: How to use LyX with XeTeX
• LyxFunctions: About lyx-functions (LFUN:s), a.k.a. user commands
  • mini-buffer: A prompt for manually entering commands (LyX/LyxFunctions)
• LyXServer: The LyX server communicates with LyX via named pipes.
• Tips: A group of pages with various tips related to using LyX and increase producitivty.
  • Symbols: Tips for entering various symbols in LyX

Documentation development homepage

• DocumentationDevelopment: Homepage of LyX's Documentation Development

External documentation

• LyX's online help
• Herbert's LaTeX Tips & Tricks
• InternetResources: Official internet sites and resources related to LyX. For developers, Devel.InternetResources contain additional details.

Searching list archives when problem solving is urgent:

• Search LyX user's list [marc.theaimsgroup.com] - A good web interface to search the LyX users mailing list
• Search LyX user's list [www.mail-archive.com] - Another web interface to search the LyX user's mailing list
• Links: Links to other sites and resources related to LyX
  • HOWTO for LyX/Mac [18james.com] contains information about for instance installing LyX on a Macintosh.

Development Related Issues:

• DevelDoc/DevelDoc - The primary Wiki page for the LyX Documentation Project
• Contributing - How to contribute to the LyX Documentation Project.
  Make sure you read What Goes Where and The LyXDoc StyleSheet before you touch the docs!
• Devel:Devel/MiscNotes - miscellanous notes about structure of documentation etc

Directory listing of the LyX documentation as PDF:s

• 1.5.4/
• 1.5.3/
  • test.txt (5 bytes, 2008-02-07 07:17 GMT)
• 1.5.2/
• 1.5.1/
• 1.5.0/

Categories

Category: Documentation