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