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Tutorials on using LyX

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List of tutorials

Essentials of LyX — by Stephen Wolff and Liviu Andronic. Provides an overview of the essential features and functions of LyX for complete beginners (PDF and source).
LyX: advanced features — by venom00. Slides in English (PDF and source) and in italian (PDF and source) to present some LyX's advanced features (shortcuts, presentations with beamer and instant preview with XY-pic and TikZ).
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].
A simple guide to LaTeX/LyX by Bo Peng, see section below.
Document processing with LyX and SGML — by Chris Karakas, see TutorialDocumentProcessingSGML.
Self-publishing with LYX by Alan L Tyree. Very nice and informative book. Description extracted from the book: 'This book explains why you should use LYX if you are a self-publisher, and it examines those parts of LYX that are of particular importance to you as a self-publisher.'
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.
LyX, The Other Way of Writing (English) A CC book on how to properly use LaTeX, XeTeX, and OpenType in LyX.
LyX, la otra forma de escribir (espa�ol) Un libro con licencia CC que explica c�mo utilizar correctamente LaTeX, XeTeX y OpenType en LyX.

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 (↑)

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