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Overview of the groups about (or related to) LyX

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List of groups (from LyX.GroupList)

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LyX — "Home"-group of this meta-group
Tips — General tips about using and working with LyX
FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions relating to LyX
Tools
BibTeX
LaTeX
Layouts
Examples
Windows — Using LyX on Windows
Glossary

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PersonalChr: Christian Ridderstr�m's personal group

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Welcome: Welcome to the wiki-wiki of the LyX community
Homepage
About LyX
- About LyX: What is LyX?
- News: News related to LyX - primarily a redirection to the LyX web site.
- NewInLyX14: About the new features in LyX 1.4
- NewInLyX15: About the new features in LyX 1.5
- NewInLyX16: About the new features in LyX 1.6
- NewInBranch: This page lists the fixes and enhancements that are included in the forthcoming stable version of LyX.
- Press about LyX: Links to articles etc about LyX, the primary page is at the main LyX site [www.lyx.org]
- Mascot: About the LyX mascot that is illustrated in e.g. the logotype.
Download: This page lists links for downloading various versions of LyX.
- LyX Version Numbers Description of LyX version numbers and the principles behind them.
- InternetResources: Official internet sites and resources related to LyX. For developers, Devel.InternetResources contain additional details.
  - IRC: About Internet Relay Chat (IRC) related to LyX.
- Links: Links to other sites and resources related to LyX
- Praise: Praise about LyX
- Complaints: Complaints about LyX
- ProducedPublications: Publications that have been produced using LyX
- Pros and cons: Advantages and disadvantages with using LyX to produce documents.
- Reasons to use Lyx instead of Latex: Reasons to use LyX instead of LaTeX
- LyX vs other software: A place for comments and notes about LyX versus other software that does something similar (Scientific Workplace, Scribus, Word, etc). These comments can emphasize both what is good and what is bad about the way LyX does (or does not do) things.
  - LyX vs Scientific Workplace: What LyX can learn from Scientfic Workplace - comments by Jan. Also see LyX vs other software.
Customization
- Customization: Adapt LyX to your needs
- Keyboard shortcuts: About keyboard bindings in LyX
- User Interface: Customize Menus and Toolbar
- UserDir: Documentation about the LyX user directory
- SystemDir: Documentation about the LyX system directory
- Icons: Alternative Icons
Documentation
- Documentation: Links to documentation about LyX and related to LyX.
- LyX help documents: This page describes the help documents that come with an installation of LyX.
- Manuals: A place for additional manuals (or links to them) about LyX
  - ManPage: The man page for LyX
  - LyXMathebefehle: LyXMathebefehle is a German documentation of mathed.
- Tutorials: Tutorials on using LyX
- Screencasts: (:redirect Screencasts-HowToCreateThem:)
- 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
- LyXForX: This page gives an overview on how to use LyX for specific scientific fields. Feel free to add tips for your specific field here ...
- MathInLyX: Writing math in LyX using the Math Editor.
- InstantPreview: Instant Preview
- LinguistLyX: Using LyX for Linguistic Papers
- HumanitiesLyX: Using LyX for Humanities Papers
  - Using Memoir in LyX: How to effectively use the Memoir document class in LyX.
- Lyx with R through Sweave: How to use LyX together with R
- Fonts: Choosing Fonts
- Tables: Table formatting
- I18nLabels: About internationalized labels
- DocumentationDevelopment: Homepage of LyX's Documentation Development
Presentations: A page about how you can use LyX to create presentations, and also presentation tools useful with LyX.
Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting your LyX installation
- DebugFlags: How to start LyX with debug flags to produce diagnostic output.
Feature Poll:
LyX on different operating systems
- Linux: LyX has been developed on Linux from the beginning, so it is already included in many distributions.
  - Creating LyX RPM: Notes on how to create a RPM for your Linux distribution.
  - Debian: If you're running Debian, just type:
  - RedHat: This page is meant to document any special steps needed to install different versions of LyX on a Linux system based on Red Hat/Fedora Core
  - Ubuntu: How to install correctly LyX on Ubuntu (Debian users should use LyXOnDebian).
- Mac OS X: This is a HOWTO for LyX/Mac, a full-featured native implementation of LyX on the Mac OS X.
- Windows: This group of pages contains information related to using LyX on Microsoft Windows systems.
- Mac-X11: LyX/X11 on MacOSX
- Cygwin: This page describes how to use LyX under Cygwin on Windows by building Qt/Win and LyX from source using cygwin tools. (If you don't want or need to compile LyX yourself, you can download lyx-1.5.X-cygwin.tar.gz from the binary distribution site, un-tar it, and follow the instructions.)
Group map: self reference omitted
Live CDs: Live CDs with LyX
Logotype: About the LyX logo and some variants of it.
DocBook: DocBook is a comprehensive - if slightly bloated - file format for large, structured documents. There are SGML and XML variants. DocBook documents can be transformed into a wide variety of printed and electronic formats, including PDF, PS, HTML, CHM, and others.

Uncategorized

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Pages in Tips (from Tips.PageList)

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Tips: Homepage of the group Tips/.
Installation and Configuration
- Compiling: Notes about compiling LyX
- OpenFileInRunningLyx: Open LyX File in Running Instance
- Setting LANG: How To tell LyX to speak in a different language
User Interface
- Symbols: Tips for entering various symbols in LyX
- KeyboardShortcuts: Modifying LyX keyboard shortcuts
  - FrequentlyUsedShortcuts: Tips about frequently used shortcuts in Lyx.
  - CommandSequences: Creating keyboard macros
  - CommandSequencesTips: Tips for creating/testing command sequences using the mini-buffer
  - Blocked keyboard shortcuts: Blocked keyboard shortcuts
  - KeyboardShortcutForCharacterStyles: How to define a keyboard shortcut to work better with character styles.
- Color: How to customize the colors of LyX.
  - Color schemes: This is the place to share different color schemes that change the look of LyX. If you want to apply these color schemes, copy and paste the listed text into your preferences file (located in "Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Lyx" on Windows or ~/.lyx on most other systems).
- Fullscreen: Using LyX in Full-screen mode
Writing documents
- Outline: Tips related to using an outline when creating a document, i.e. when outlining the document.
Using LyX Features
- Change Tracking Lyx 1-3-2: Change tracking for LyX 1.3
- Indexing: This page is for adding tips about writing an index. feel free to add to it.
- Nomenclature: Create a list of symbols with LyX and the nomencl package
- MathMacros: This page contains tips about Math Macros in LyX
  - ChildMathMacros: How to include a file containing math-macros in child documents (LyX < 1.6).
LyX Tricks
- Reset numbering of Tables and Figures in an Appendix: How to Reset the Numbering of Tables and Figures in an Appendix
- MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate: Example of entering a nested list by keyboard
- access table of contents as a seperate document: Access TOC information in isolation.
- PaperLayout: Paper layout, i.e. about margins and various lengths appearing on a page
- Equation numbering: Tips related to equation numbering
- OptionalEnvironmentArguments: How to add optional arguments to environments
- FeynmanDiagrams: How to create Feynman diagrams
- PasteTexCodeIntoLyx: How to insert raw TeX code into Lyx.
- Cyrillic: Tips for writing documents in the Cyrillic alphabet
Classes and Layouts
- DebuggingLayoutFiles: This pages gives some tips for creating and debugging Lyx Layout files.
General LaTeX Tips
- TheLetTrick: Redefining a Command While Keeping the Old One
- ModifyChapterEtc: How To Modify Chapter, Section, and the Like
Using LaTeX Packages with LyX
- ProducingGlossary: Producing a glossary
- EndNotes: Using Endnotes With LyX
- Placing figures and producing legends: How to treat long legends and big figures with the nonfloat package.
- Subfigures and cross references: Subfigures And Cross-references
- The tensind package: Tensor Index Notation
- Placing pictures beside the text: How to insert pictures beside the text, circumfloated. using picins
Exporting and Sharing LyX Documents
- ConvertFilesIntoArchive: Script to creates archive with lyx file and all included files (graphics and so on).
- UsingMakefileToExportPDF: How you can use a Makefile to create PDF-files from LyX-files
- Exporting Rich Text Format with LaTeX2rtf: Use Tips/LaTeX2rtf to export Rich Text Format documents from within LyX
Using LyX with Other Programs
- Additional software: A place for users to share tips about software that is useful in combination with LyX, e.g. vector drawing software.
- Using LyX with Tgif: Tips for using LyX with Tgif....
- Use Inkscape SVG Images: Include SVG Images in LyX
- WordCount: Counting the words in a LyX document
- Copy tables from spreadsheets: Pasting data from a spreadsheet into LyX
- Correcting split Subversion keywords: How to block and correct subversion keywords split across lines in .lyx files
Other tips
- Export with comments included: How to Switch Printing of Comments On and Off

Tips

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General Questions
- LyX?: What is LyX?
- TeX?: What is TeX?
- LaTeX?: What is LaTeX?
- What?: And how are those weird names pronounced?
- And how do I refer to LyX if I want to cite it?
- SurprisesForNewUsers: A page with suprises (FAQ) that new new users typically encounter.
Sections corresponding to parts of the document FAQ.lyx
- Introduction: Introduction and general information
- Internet: Internet Resources
- Compatibility: Compatibility with other word/document processors
- Obtaining: Obtaining and compiling LyX
- ERT: Questions about Evil Red Text
- Using: Questions related to using LyX
- Running: Questions Related to Running LyX
- Windows: Questions Related to LyX on Windows
- FurtherHelp: How to get further assistance
- Formalia: Administrative information and acknowledgments
Frequently Asked Questions not in FAQ.lyx
- Unsorted - FAQ-s and answers
- Unsorted 1 More FAQ-s and answers
FAQ-s with answers on separate pages:
- Tables - Everything about table formatting
- Numbering - About enumerate and numbered lists
- PDF - About LyX and PDF-files.
- EquationNumbering - About equation numbering specials
- CreatingLayouts - How do I make LyX recognize a new LaTeX class?
- MultipleAuthors - How to write two authors for a two column article, with each name centered.
- FiguresSideBySide - How to get two figures in a float side by side
- RelativeFiguresLocation - How to get figures located relatively? - no broken link.
- RedefiningListOfFigures - How to redefine the List of Figures
- ChangeFontUsingLatex - How to change the default font (and size)
- ShadedBox - How to put a shaded box around stuff
- BeforeAfter ? - How to control loading of packages and commands
- Questions Related to LyX and Qt
- Units - List of units that are used in LyX
- MacInstall - Installing LyX on a Mac
- ImportFromSubdir - about a patch that allows importing files from subdirectories.
Miscellaneous pages
- Unanswered questions
- ListNetiquette - Tips for posting to the User's and Devel-lists

FAQ

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Pages in Tools (from Tools.PageList)

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homepage
Instructions in how to add a script to this group
Scripts and Programs:
- Lyx bindings: Script for listing current keyboard shortcuts (bindings) from .bind-files
- LyX-GrammarChecker: Script that provides Grammar Checking support within LyX.
  - LyX-GC-MakeindexWrapper: Wrapper to Improve Formatting of Index (an add-on to )
- PyClient: Python interface to the LyXServer
- LatexToLyx:
- MifToLyx: See here: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/
- LyX2OpenOffice: There are 3 main methods of converting LyX documents to Open Document Format (the format used by Tools/OpenOffice): By python script, bash script, and by a converter installed in LyX. More detailed information about both methods follows.
- SVG Files and Inkscape: Directly include SVG-Images in LyX.
- Otl2lyx: Outline to LyX (otl2lyx.awk) converts a tabbed outline almost into a .lyx-file.
- MetafileToEPSConverter: Metafile to EPS Converter
- Bibdesk script (see section 9): This is a HOWTO for LyX/Mac, a full-featured native implementation of LyX on the Mac OS X.
- Word2LyXMacro: This pages provides a way to convert a Microsoft Word document to LyX format.
- Word2LyXConversionProcess: Notes on how Steve Litt converted a book from MS Word to LyX via RTF and using Word macros.

Tool

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Pages in BibTeX (from BibTeX.PageList)

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Homepage
Introduction to using BibTeX/LyX
Background of BibTeX and some styles
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1. The difference between "normal" BibTeX, Natbib, Jurabib et al.
  1. 1.1 BibTeX
  2. 1.2 Natbib
  3. 1.3 Jurabib
  4. 1.4 Biblatex
  5. 1.5 Conclusion
2. Documentation for those styles
Software:
- Programs for working with and converting BibTeX-files
- Emacs' bibtex-mode
Tips and Tricks:
Links and further ressources:
- Links related to BibTeX (including tips for selecting a style)
- Suggested reading: Suggestions for reading material about BibTeX can be found on the page suggested reading#bibtex in the group LyX.

Bibliography

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Pages in LaTeX (from LaTeX.PageList)

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LaTeX to LyX:
Files with special chars: On the use of "file names with special characters" with LaTeX
Package BM: The package bm.sty allows you to write bold greek letters (both upper and lower case) within LaTeX. It is part of the standard LaTeX tools bundle, i.e., it's always present.
Footnotes in section headings: If you want footnotes in section headings, say Section 1 entitled "Strong Beginning", do the the following:
LaTeX bugs: Here are some bugs in LaTeX supporting programs that affect functionality of LyX.

LaTeX

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Pages in Layouts (from Layouts.PageList)

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Homepage
Creating layouts: Tips and links related to creating your own LyX layout-files

Journals and Stylesheets
- AMS: These are "tweaked" copies of the AMS layout files.
- AMS-de: AMS document classes for german documents
- iopart: Layout and symbols (global math macros) for IOP Physics Journals - need help
- layout and class file for International Ass. of Geodesy Proceedings: http://users.tkk.fi/~mvermeer/iagproc.tar.gz
- Nordic Journal for Surveying and Real estate Research, and related publ. http://users.tkk.fi/~mvermeer/njsr.tar.gz
- Institute of Navigation Proceedings class and layout files: http://users.tkk.fi/~mvermeer/ion.cls http://users.tkk.fi/~mvermeer/ion.layout
- International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA): LaTeX class and LyX Layout (with permission from World Scientific Publishing Co.)
- Advances in Modal Logic 2008 (AiML08) Layout files http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~john/lyx/aiml08_lyx_layout.zip
Presentations/Slides
- LaTeX-beamer: LaTeX-beamer – a class and layout for presentations
- Powerdot: Powerdot — another powerful presentation class
- Seminar: New version of seminar.layout, a comprehensive LaTeX class for slides (including documentation and template).
Letters
- Dinbrief: Letter layout conformat to the German DIN norm. (revised version)
- Brev: A4 letters for window envelopes.
- beletter: Typeset Belgian letters
- frletter: Typeset French letters
- lettre: Typeset French letters (Observatoire de Gen�ve class)
Miscellaneous
- Songbook: Layout for the documentclass songbook (installation instructions)
- Some layouts and scripts for screenplays: http://ruby2shoes.sourceforge.net/lyx_stuff/index.html
- Layout for Frank Küster's labbook LaTeX class: http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/LabbookInLatex
- Flashcards: a (German) layout for the flashcards class: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~mhoffman/latex/flashcards/
- Recipebook: Layout to produce a “book” of recipes.

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Examples - Start page of the group
CreatingNewExample: Instructions for adding a new example
No page number on first page: How to remove the page number on the title page
CV: Writing a CV/resume using LyX.
- CV Bruce Pourciau: Example/template for writing a CV by Bruce Pourciau
- ModernCV Class Issues:
BigFigureOrTable: Using an empty pagestyle for a big figure or table
FiguresSideBySide: Simple example of putting two figures side by side.
ManuallySetChapterNumberInReport - Example of manually setting the chapter number in a document of a report class.
InsertMatrix - Example of inserting a matrix in math mode (with square braces)
Tips.MultipleLyxCodeInSingleEnumerate: Example of entering a nested list by keyboard
Minitoc: Using the LaTeX-package minitoc with LyX.
Bibunits: Using bibunits to add extra lists of references (bibliographies)
Beamer: Example presentations using Beamer
Prosper: Examples of creating a presentation using Prosper
- ProsperNotes: Notes from creating prosper-layout/sample.lyx
PSTricks: A simple example of using Examples/PSTricks with LyX:
PresentationPPower4: Presentations with LyX using Examples/PPower4
ReferToEnumeratedItem: Example of how you can refer to a specific enumerated item
ReferringToFloatingTable: Example of how you can refer to a table in a float using a label
SimpleUseOfBibTeX: Simple example of using BibTeX with LyX
Introduction: Introduction to using BibTeX with LyX
FormulaOnMultipleLines: Illustration of how you can enter a formula on two or more lines
TwoColumnExercises: Creating a document with two columns for writing exercises
RomanPageNumbering: Using Roman page numbers up until the TOC
Comparing LyX and Word: Describes example comparing the output of LyX and Word.
Vim for editing lyx-files: A syntax file for editing lyx files using Vim.
Syllabus: Simple example of writing a syllabus
Thesis: Thesis examples
Preventing linebreak in inline formula: How can I prevent LaTeX from inserting a linebreak in an inline formula?
AcmSigplan: Using the ACM Sigplan style
Include external program listing: How to include an external program listing into LyX.
KomaLetter2: Examples of letters ("business-like") using the document class Letter (Koma Script v.2).
Hellmut's business: Two examples for business use of LyX: Letter and Paper