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Homepage of LyX's Documentation Development

On this page you find the actual development version of LyX's documentation, a status report and a todo list.

You can download the actual version from here.

The documentation project need your help. So if you have comments, annotations, suggestions please send them to LyX's documentation mailing list


§ Status

  • The updated Intro manual was released with LyX 1.4.4.
  • The new manual EmbeddedObjects that describes in detail LyX's features about figures, tables, floats, notes, boxes, and external material was released with LyX 1.4.4.
  • The Userguide has been completely been revised and has been released together with LyX 1.5.2
changes for the new UserGuide version:
New:
  • description of index generation
  • description of nomenclature generation
  • description of change tracking
  • description of the thesaurus
  • description of Notes
  • description of bibliography generated by a database (BibTeX)
  • description of ERT together with a short introduction to the LaTeX-syntax
  • longtable description in the section about tables
  • hint about phonetic symbols
  • description of image, font, and output file formats
  • description of file encodings
  • new appendix where all menus and toolbars are listed, this can be used a graphical index of the LyX features since every entry contains an explanation or a link where an explanation of the feature can be found
  • added images for the menu buttons
  • the document has now an index
  • the document has now a nomenclature
  • the document has now a BibTeX bibliography
Revised:
  • all menu names are updated to the ones of LyX 1.5.2
  • math chapter
  • section about (protected) spaces
  • section about branches
  • section about spell checking
  • section about previewing
  • NEW! The updated Tutorial manual was released with LyX 1.5.3.
  • NEW! The new manual Math that describes in detail LyX's and LaTeX's math features was released with LyX 1.5.4.

Documentation


Things that (probably) need documentation

  • Session management
  • 'converter file cache' mechanism
  • Character styles (when it is fully supported, planned for LyX 1.6)

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All files are under the GNU General Public License.

§Embedded Objects

Released with 1.5.5:
EmbeddedObjects.lyx
Feench: EmbeddedObjects.lyx
German: EmbeddedObjects.lyx
Spanish: EmbeddedObjects.lyx
EmbeddedObjects.pdf
French: fr_EmbeddedObjects.pdf
German: de_EmbeddedObjects.pdf
Spanish: es_EmbeddedObjects.pdf

§Math

Released with LyX 1.5.5:
Math.lyx
French: fr_Math.lyx
German: de_Math.lyx
Spanish: es_Math.lyx
Math.pdf
French: fr_Math.pdf
German: de_Math.pdf
Spanish: es_Math.pdf

§Tutorial

Released with LyX 1.5.5:
Tutorial.lyx
Tutorial.pdf

§UserGuide

Released with LyX 1.5.5:
UserGuide.lyx
French: fr_UserGuide.lyx
Spanish: es_UserGuide.lyx
UserGuide.pdf
French: fr_UserGuide.pdf
Spanish: es_UserGuide.pdf

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