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List of tutorials

Writing Self-Published Books with Lyx — by Steve Litt [www.troubleshooters.com]
LyX Quickstart — A LyX introduction by Steve Litt [www.troubleshooters.com]
LyX, LaTeX and TeX — An essential read for those creating or modifying environments by Steve Litt [www.troubleshooters.com]
Manualetto per scrivere la tesi con LyX, LaTeX and BibTeX¹ (zip 220kb) by Guido Milanese
Presentazione "Scrivere la Tesi Con LyX: la giusta via di mezzo fra la potenza/qualit� di LaTeX e la semplicit� d'uso di un word processor comune" ² (pdf 1.1MB) by Gian Paolo Ghilardi & Silvia Tagliafico
Using LyX For DTP by Kathryn Andersen [katspace.org].
Schnautze voll von Word & Co.? Ein kleines HowTo �ber Diplom-, Semester- oder sonstige Arbeiten mit LyX³ by M.eik Michalke. A german tutorial, actually not so short any more and quite useful for beginners.
A simple guide to LaTeX/LyX by Bo Peng, see section below.
Document processing with LyX and SGML — by Chris Karakas, see TutorialDocumentProcessingSGML.
GOT LyX? IT DOES A WRITING GOOD! ... by Truoc Duong (First Edition, Lulu Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4303-2841-4). This book shows you how download and install LyX and quickly teaches you how to use LyX to create professionally looking term papers, research papers, theses, paper books and ebooks.
LyX! THE ZEN OF SELF PUBLISHING! ... by Truoc Duong (First Edition, Lulu Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4303-1081-5). Not only is this book great for self publishing authors and freelance writers, but it is also a great guide for college students who want to impress their professors and classmates with their professionally looking term papers, reports, and theses.

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A simple guide to LaTeX/LyX by Bo Peng

Bo Peng has written a tutorial that was initially for internal use at http://www.stat.rice.edu. It is a crash course on LaTeX/LyX and starts from the basics of LaTeX and covers most basic usages of LyX.

The tutorial A simple guide to LaTeX/LyX[stat.rice.edu] can be read online, or downloaded from the wiki as lyxguide.lyx or lyxguide.pdf.

¹ English translation: Writing a thesis using LyX, LaTeX and BibTeX (↑)

² English translation: Presentation: Writing a Thesis with LyX: a comfortable way between the power/quality of LaTeX and the usability of a standard word processor (↑)

³ English translation: A short HowTo on writing your diploma, semester or any other thesis using LyX (↑)

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