.\" Man page for LyX. .\" Use the following command to view man page: .\" .\" tbl lyx.1 | nroff -man | less .\" .TH LYX 1 "November 1999" "Version 1.1" "LyX 1.1" .SH NAME lyx \- A Document Processor .\" .\" setup .de Cr .ie n (c) .el \(co .. .SH SYNOPSIS \fBlyx\fR [ \fIcommand-line switches\fR] [\fIname.lyx ...\fR ] .br .SH DESCRIPTION \fBLyX\fR is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page format. If your system is properly configured, you can access the full documentation within \fBLyX\fR under the Help menu. \fBLyX\fR is a modern approach of writing documents with a computer which breaks with the tradition of the obsolete typewriter concept. It is designed for people who want a professional output with a minimum of time effort, without becoming specialists in typesetting. Compared to common word processors, \fBLyX\fR will increase the productivity a lot, since most of the typesetting will be done by the computer, not the author. With \fBLyX\fR the author can concentrate on the contents of his writing, since the computer will take care of the look. Read more about this concept in the online documentation under the Help menu. Currently, \fBLyX\fR uses the XForms library as a toolkit. \fBLyX\fR should run everywhere, where XForms runs. This is on all major Unix platforms as well as some PC platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, Compaq Tru64, IBM RS6000, Convex, Cray, i386/Linux, Alpha/Linux, i386/FreeBSD, i386/NetBSD, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix, OS/2 with XFree or PMX and others. .SH OPTIONS \fBLyX\fR supports the following command-line switches, which can also be specified as X resources (e. g. in .Xdefaults) with class name \fBLyX\fR: .TP 6 .BI \-help summarizes LyX usage .TP .BI \-sysdir " directory" sets system directory. Normally not needed. .TP .BI \-userdir " directory" sets user directory. Needed if you want to use LyX with different lyxrc settings. .TP .BI \-geometry " WxH+X+Y" specifies the preferred size and position of the main \fBLyX\fR window; see \fIX(1)\fR. .TP .BI \-dbg " feature[,feature...]" where feature is a name or number. Use "\fBlyx -dbg\fR" to see the list of available debug features. .PP Furthermore, \fBLyX\fR understands the following generic command line options from the \fBForms Library\fR: .TP 6 .BI \-display " host:display" specifies the server to connect to. .TP .BI \-bw " borderwidth" specifies the border width to use to built-in objects. .TP .BI \-visual " visualName" requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the .B Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth. .TP .BI \-depth " depth" requests a specific depth. Try "\fB-depth\fR best" or "\fB-depth\fR 8" if you get a bad match. .TP .BI \-debug " level" generates some info about the state of the .B XForms. where .I level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to output. Depending on the options used when the .B Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available. .TP .B \-sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4. .TP .B \-private requests a private colormap for the application. .TP .B \-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. .TP .B \-stdcmap requests a standard colormap. .TP .B \-name " newname" specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B LYX_DIR_11x can be used to specify which system directory to use. .PP The system directory is determined by searching for the file "chkconfig.ltx". Directories are searched in this order: .br 1) -sysdir command line parameter .br 2) LYX_DIR_11x environment variable .br 3) Maybe /TOP_SRCDIR/lib .br 4) /../share// .br 5) hardcoded lyx_dir (usually /usr/local/share/lyx on UNIX and %X11ROOT%\\XFree86\\lib\\X11\\lyx on OS/2 with XFree) .TP .B LYX_USERDIR_11x can be used to specify which user directory to use. .PP The user directory is, in order of precedence: .br 1) -userdir command line parameter .br 2) LYX_USERDIR_11x environment variable .br 3) $HOME/. if no explicit setting is made .TP .B LYX_LOCALEDIR can be used to tell LyX where to look for the translations of its GUI strings in other languages. .SH FILES .nf .ta \w'\fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc.in 'u ~/.lyx/lyxrc Personal configuration file \fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc System wide configuration file \fILIBDIR\fR/lyxrc.example System wide configuration file template \fILIBDIR\fR/configure Updates \fBLyX\fR if config has changed \fILIBDIR\fR/bind/ Keybindings \fILIBDIR\fR/clipart/ Clipart pictures \fILIBDIR\fR/doc/ Documentation in \fBLyX\fR format. \fILIBDIR\fR/examples/ Example documents \fILIBDIR\fR/images/ Images used as icons or in popups \fILIBDIR\fR/kbd/ Keyboard mappings \fILIBDIR\fR/layouts/ Layout descriptions \fILIBDIR\fR/templates/ Templates for documents \fILIBDIR\fR/tex/ Extra TeX files .Sp .fi .I 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. .SH SEE ALSO reLyX(1), latex(1), xforms(5). Full documentation in either native \fBLyX\fR or postscript format. .SH BUGS/LIMITATIONS There are probably still some bugs in \fBLyX\fR. Please report them to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org with detailed info, including which version of \fBLyX\fR you use. Consult the "Known Bugs" item under the Help menu first if possible. \fBLaTeX\fR import is still not perfect and may produce buggy *.lyx files. Consult the \fBreLyX\fR documentation. XFree on OS/2 currently does not support PC codepages. If you use \fBemTeX\fR to preview/print with cp850, etc., this might lead to strange \fBemTeX\fR error messages. .B Remedy: 1) In filenames use only A-Z, a-z, 1-9. 2) Install a recent \fBLaTeX\fR package inputenc.sty. Select Layout->Document->encoding:latin1, so that \fBreLyX\fR adds the \fBLaTeX\fR command '\\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}'. \fBLyX\fR server has some limitations under OS/2: See Help->Customization for details. Preview of inline images in rare cases does not show the image. If you want to preview the image, just click on it and choose fullscreen preview. If you have performance problems, please go through the \fBlyxrc\fR configuration file. It contains settings that can be used to improve performance on slow systems. .SH AUTHORS Copyright .Cr 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 by Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and the rest of the \fBLyX Team\fR (See Credits under the Help menu item).