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Tips

A group of pages with various tips related to using LyX and increase producitivty.

This group is intended to gather various tips to increase the productivity when using LyX. The best tip so far is to check out the LaTeX Tips & Tricks by Herbert Voß — it's great! (Link seems down, alternate: http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=index texnik.dante.de(approve sites)).

If you have additional tips, tricks and neat things that can be done with LyX you are more than welcome to add it here (add a description of new pages to Tips.PageList, included below). Please make the first line of your page a title: That information is what will be displayed below, after the page name.

• 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
  • Performance issues: How to improve performance.
• User Interface
  • Symbols: Tips for entering various symbols in LyX
  • KeyboardShortcuts: Modifying LyX keyboard shortcuts
    • FrequentlyUsedShortcuts: Tips about frequently used shortcuts in LyX to edit math and text
    • CommandSequences: (:toc:)
    • 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 the file "preferences" (located in "Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Lyx" on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.x on Mac OSX or ~/.lyx on most other systems, and created for the first time after changing your LyX settings and pressing the "Save" button).
  • Fullscreen: Using LyX in Full-screen mode
  • Display the version number: Make the LyX version number visible
• Writing documents
  • Outline: Tips related to using an outline when creating a document, i.e. when outlining the document.
  • Typography: This article is about Typography in LyX.
• 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
  • Beamer: Tips for using the Beamer presentation class.
  • LyxAsGitMergetool: How to configure LyX as a merge tool for GIT to use the built-in compare feature for merge conflict resolving
• 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
  • Using TikZ-PGF: This page documents some special settings needed if you work with specific features of TikZ/PGF
  • The tensind package: Tensor Index Notation
  • Placing pictures beside the text: How to insert wrapped floats beside the text using picins or wrapfigure (LyX 1.6+)
  • Enumitem: Enumitem Custom lists, resume enumeration
• 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 OpenDocument and Office Open XML with Pandoc: Export to OpenDocument (.odt) and Open Office XML (.docx) file formats with Pandoc
  • Exporting Rich Text Format with LaTeX2rtf: Use LaTeX2rtf to export Rich Text Format documents from within LyX
  • Convert Sweave: Link to tips on converting Sweave output to various formats
  • Convert Markdown: Importing and exporting Markdown documents to/in 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: As of version 1.6.6 LyX directly supports SVG files - only librsvg or Inkscape needs to be installed on your computer. To enable the default support on Windows, edit preferences and add the path to Inkscape to the paths section (it appears that the path entry may be case sensitive, so use the correct letter casing on the path, even on Windows). Then use Tools | Reconfigure. If you open up the Converters preference again, you should see new entries there for SVG to PNG, SVG to EPS, and SVG to PDF. Once you have them, everything should work fine. You do NOT have to add the converters yourself; they will be automatically added when LyX detects Inkscape on the path during a reconfigure operation. If they're not there, check the path you entered and ensure that you have matched the case perfectly, and that the target directory exists, and that inkscape.exe is there.
  • 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
  • Use Ipe files directly in LyX: How to use Ipe files (*.ipe) directly in LyX, using converts.
  • Use Dia files directly in LyX as pdf: <How to use Dia files directly in Lyx as PDF>
  • Fix Dead Keys and Compose: Dead keys and Compose key often fail in installations of LyX, especially when qt wasn't present beforehand. Here are some tips to fix this.
  • Unicode input using Ctrl-Shift-U: It may not be possible with certain flavours of Linux to enter unicode characters in LyX using Ctrl-Shift-U then the character code point.
  • Using LyX with gnuplot: This tip shows how to integrate gnuplot diagrams into your LyX document efficiently.
• Other tips
  • Export with comments included: How to Switch Printing of Comments On and Off
  • LyX files backup script: Simple bash script to backup LyX files.

Tips

I used to have the error "LaTex Error: File `setstyle.sty' not found" - i googled setstyle.sty downloaded the file and copyed it into almost every single folder in MikTex - that didn´t do it - yet. (I have no idea in which folder it is supposed to go...)

I had to do the follwoing: "START" -> "PROGRAMMS" -> "MikTex 2.8" -> "Maintenance" -> "Settings" and there I had to push "Refresh FNDB". After that Lyx could handle the "doublespace" for Example.

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