UG: Import and review changes from Phil Netro.

Chapter 1.
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Document Notes and Questions
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The menu selection Navigate
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Bookmarks does not appear to work as described
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Would love to see some kind of diagram showing how classes, modules, layouts,
or whatever else all relate.
It is not clear how all of these things work together.
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Change tracking does not appear to work in equations
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\SpecialChar LyX
is a document preparation system.
It is a tool for producing beautiful manu\SpecialChar softhyphen
scripts, publishable books, business
letters and proposals, and even poetry.
letters and proposals,
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even poetry.
It is unlike most other
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manual describes several things in addition to \SpecialChar LyX
's philosophy: most importantly,
the format of all of the manuals.
If you don't read it, you will have a bear of a time navigating this manual.
You might also be better served looking in one of the other manuals instead
of this one.
The
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Introduction
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manual describes that, too.
If you don't read it, you will have a difficult time navigating the manuals.
Additionally it provides a high level content description of the other
manuals giving the user an idea of where to look for specific information.
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\begin_layout Section
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has the familiar menu bar across the top of its
window.
Below it is a toolbar with a pulldown box and various buttons.
There is, of course, a vertical scrollbar and a main work area for editing
documents.
There is of course a work area for editing documents complete with a vertical
scrollbar.
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\begin_layout Standard
Note that there is no horizontal scrollbar.
This is not a bug or an oversight, but intentional.
This is not a bug or an oversight, it is intentional.
When you read a book, you expect the end of a line to wrap around to the
next line.
Text overflows onto new pages in a vertical fashion, hence the need for
only a vertical scrollbar.
There are three cases where you might want a horizontal scrollbar.
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\begin_layout Standard
There are three cases where you might want a horizontal scrollbar.
The first case is large images.
To avoid them being displayed larger than your screen, left click on the
image and use the option
To avoid images being displayed larger than your screen, left click on
the image and use the option
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Scale on Screen
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The second and third cases are tables and equations which are wider than
the \SpecialChar LyX
window.
You can use the arrow keys to scroll horizontally through the table, but
this doesn't work for equations yet.
You can use the arrow keys to scroll horizontally through both.
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\begin_layout Standard
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\SpecialChar LyX
is able to inspect your system to see what programs, \SpecialChar LaTeX
document classes
document classes,
and \SpecialChar LaTeX
packages are available.
It uses this knowledge to give reasonable defaults for the preferences
settings.
Although this configuration has already been done when \SpecialChar LyX
was installed on
your system, you might have some items that you installed locally, e.
Although this configuration was performed when \SpecialChar LyX
was installed on your system,
you might have some items that you installed locally, e.
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new \SpecialChar LaTeX
classes, and which are not seen by \SpecialChar LyX
classes, which are not seen by \SpecialChar LyX
.
To force \SpecialChar LyX
to re-inspect your system, you should use
to re-inspect your system use
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Tools\SpecialChar menuseparator
Reconfigure
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You should then restart \SpecialChar LyX
Then restart \SpecialChar LyX
to ensure that the changes are taken into account.
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\begin_layout Standard
You can edit documents in \SpecialChar LyX
without having \SpecialChar LaTeX
installed, but you will not be
able to create PDFs or print your documents unless you do have it installed.
However, some \SpecialChar LyX
documents use DocBook as the “backend” that can produce
PDFs and the like, and every \SpecialChar LyX
document can always be output as plain text
installed but you will not be
able to create PDFs
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or print your documents
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.
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Some \SpecialChar LyX
documents use DocBook instead of \SpecialChar LaTeX
as the
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backend
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which can produce PDFs and the like.
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Even without \SpecialChar LaTeX
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or Docbook
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every \SpecialChar LyX
document can still be output as plain text
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, as Docbook
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or as XHTML.
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\begin_layout Standard
Some document classes may depend upon specific \SpecialChar LaTeX
or DocBook classes or packages.
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or DocBook
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classes or packages.
Such document classes can be used even if you do not have the required
files installed, but you will not be able to produce certain kinds of output.
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\begin_layout Standard
The \SpecialChar LaTeX
packages that \SpecialChar LyX
has found on your system are listed in a file you can
view from the menu
finds on your system are listed in a file you can view
from the menu
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Help\SpecialChar menuseparator
LaTeX
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Configuration
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.
If you are missing packages you need, then you must install them and then
If you are missing needed packages then you must install them and then
reconfigure \SpecialChar LyX
(menu
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Installing new \SpecialChar LaTeX
files
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of the
in the
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Customization
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