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ManPage

The man page for LyX

On *nix systems you can often write

	man lyx

in order to obtain a manual page for LyX. Below is the result of doing this for LyX 1.3.5.

 
LYX(1)                              LyX 1.3                             LYX(1)



NAME
       lyx - A Document Processor

SYNOPSIS
       lyx [ command-line switches ] [ name[.lyx] ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       LyX is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page format.
       If your system is properly configured, you can access the full documen-
       tation within LyX under the Help menu.

       LyX  is  a document preparation system. It excels at letting you create
       complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics,  cross-ref-
       erences,  bibliographies, indices, etc. It is very good at documents of
       any length in which the usual processing abilities are required:  auto-
       matic  sectioning  and  pagination, spellchecking, and so forth. It can
       also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted,  there  are
       probably  simpler programs available for that. It is definitely not the
       best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertisements, though  with
       some  effort  all  these can be done, too.  Some examples of what it is
       used for: memos, letters, dissertations and theses, lecture notes, sem-
       inar  notebooks,  conference proceedings, software documentation, books
       (on PostgreSQL, remote sensing, cryptology, fictional  novels,  poetry,
       and  even  a  children's  book or two), articles in refereed scientific
       journals, scripts for plays and movies, business proposals...  you  get
       the idea.

       Currently,  LyX  uses either the XForms or Qt library as a toolkit. LyX
       should run everywhere, where these libraries run.  This is on all major
       Unix  platforms  as well as Windows, Mac OS X (which actually is a unix
       platform) and OS/2.


OPTIONS
       LyX supports the following command-line switches.

       -help summarizes LyX usage

       -version
             provides version information on the build of LyX.

       -sysdir directory
             sets system directory. Normally not needed.

       -userdir directory
             sets user directory. Needed if you want to use LyX with different
             lyxrc settings.

       -dbg feature[,feature...]
             where  feature  is  a  name or number.  Use "lyx -dbg" to see the
             list of available debug features.

        -x [--execute] command
             where command is a lyx command.

        -e [--export] fmt
             where fmt is the export format of choice.

        -i [--import] fmt file.xxx
             where fmt is the import format of choice and file.xxx is the file
             to be imported.

XFORMS FRONTEND OPTIONS
       When  compiled  with the XForms frontend, LyX understands the following
       generic command line options from the Forms Library, which can also  be
       specified as X resources (e. g. in .Xdefaults) with class name LyX.

       -geometry WxH+X+Y
             specifies the preferred size and position of the main LyX window;
             see X(1).

       -display host:display
             specifies the server to connect to.

       -bw borderwidth
             specifies the border width to use to built-in objects.

       -visual visualName
             requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By  default  the
             Forms  Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

       -depth depth
             requests a specific depth. Try "-depth best" or "-depth 8" if you
             get a bad match.

       -debug level
             generates  some  info about the state of the XForms.  where level
             is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of  information
             to  output.  Depending on the options used when the Forms Library
             was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

       -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set  to
             4.

       -private
             requests a private colormap for the application.

       -shared
             requests  a  shared  colormap  even if the application needs more
             colors than available. For those colors that can't  be  allocated
             in  the  shared  colormap,  substitutions are made so the closest
             matching color is used.

       -stdcmap
             requests a standard colormap.

       -name  newname
             specifies the application name under which resources  are  to  be
             obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

ENVIRONMENT
       LYX_DIR_13x
              can be used to specify which system directory to use.

       The  system  directory is determined by searching for the file "chkcon-
       fig.ltx". Directories are searched in this order:
       1) -sysdir command line parameter
       2) LYX_DIR_13x environment variable
       3) Maybe <path of binary>/TOP_SRCDIR/lib
       4) <path of binary>/../share/<name of binary>/
       5)  hardcoded  lyx_dir  (usually  /usr/local/share/lyx  on   UNIX   and
       %X11ROOT%\XFree86\lib\X11\lyx on OS/2 with XFree)

       LYX_USERDIR_13x
              can be used to specify which user directory to use.

       The user directory is, in order of precedence:
       1) -userdir command line parameter
       2) LYX_USERDIR_13x environment variable
       3) $HOME/.<name of binary> if no explicit setting is made


       LYX_LOCALEDIR
              can  be  used  to tell LyX where to look for the translations of
              its GUI strings in other languages.

FILES
       ~/.lyx/preferences      Personal configuration file
       ~/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults   Personal autodetected configuration file
       LIBDIR/lyxrc      System wide configuration file
       LIBDIR/lyxrc.defaults System wide autodetected configuration file
       LIBDIR/configure  Updates LyX if config has changed
       LIBDIR/bind/      Keybindings
       LIBDIR/clipart/   Clipart pictures
       LIBDIR/doc/       Documentation in LyX format.
       LIBDIR/examples/  Example documents
       LIBDIR/images/    Images used as icons or in popups
       LIBDIR/kbd/       Keyboard mappings
       LIBDIR/layouts/   Layout descriptions
       LIBDIR/templates/ Templates for documents
       LIBDIR/tex/       Extra TeX files

       LIBDIR is the system directory. This is usually /usr/local/share/lyx on
       UNIX and %X11ROOT%\XFree86\lib\X11\lyx on OS/2 with XFree.

SEE ALSO
       reLyX(1), latex(1), xforms(5).

       Full documentation in either native LyX or postscript format.


BUGS/LIMITATIONS
       There  are  still some bugs in LyX. To report one, read if possible the
       Introduction found under the Help menu in  LyX.  You'll  find  detailed
       info  on  submitting  bug  reports  there.  If  you can't do that, send
       details to the LyX Developers mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org,  or
       use  the  LyX  bug tracker at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/. Don't forget to
       mention which version you are having problems with!

       LaTeX import is still not perfect and may produce  buggy  *.lyx  files.
       Consult the reLyX documentation.


AUTHORS
       Copyright  (c)  1995,  1996,  1997,  1998,  1999,  2000,  2001, 2002 by
       Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and the rest  of
       the LyX Team (See About LyX under the Help menu item).




Version 1.3                        Jan 2003                             LYX(1)

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