LYX

LYX

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT FILES SEE ALSO BUGS/LIMITATIONS AUTHORS

NAME

lyx - A Document Processor

SYNOPSIS

lyx [ ''command-line switches'' [unrenderable node]

DESCRIPTION

LyX is too complex to be described completely in the LyX under the Help menu.

LyX 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, LyX will increase the productivity a lot, since most of the typesetting will be done by the computer, not the author. With LyX 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, LyX uses the XForms library as a toolkit. LyX 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.

OPTIONS

LyX supports the following command-line switches, which can also be specified as X resources (e. g. in .Xdefaults) with class name LyX:

-help

summarizes LyX usage

-sysdir directory

sets system directory. Normally not needed.

-userdir directory

sets user directory. Needed if you want to use LyX with different lyxrc settings.

-geometry WxH+X+Y

specifies the preferred size and position of the main LyX window; see X(1).

-dbg feature[,feature...

where feature is a name or number. Use lyx

• dbg__

__

-x [--execute command

where command is a lyx command.

-e [--export fmt

where fmt is the export format of choice.

-i [--import fmt file.xxx

where fmt is the import format of choice and file.xxx is the file to be imported.

Furthermore, LyX understands the following generic command line options from the Forms Library:

-display host:display

specifies the server to connect to.

-bw borderwidth

specifies the border width to use to built-in objects.

-visual visualName

requests a visual by name such as !TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

-depth depth

requests a specific depth. Try -depth best-depth 8

-debug level

generates some info about the state of the XForms. where level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

-sync

runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.

-private

requests a private colormap for the application.

-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.

-stdcmap

requests a standard colormap.

-name newname

specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

ENVIRONMENT

LYX_DIR_11x

can be used to specify which system directory to use.

The system directory is determined by searching for the file 1) -sysdir command line parameter 2) LYX_DIR_11x environment variable 3) Maybe 4) 5) hardcoded lyx_dir (usually /usr/local/share/lyx on UNIX and %X11ROOT%XFree86libX11lyx on OS/2 with XFree)

LYX_USERDIR_11x

can be used to specify which user directory to use.

The user directory is, in order of precedence: 1) -userdir command line parameter 2) LYX_USERDIR_11x environment variable 3) $HOME/.

LYX_LOCALEDIR

can be used to tell LyX where to look for the translations of its GUI strings in other languages.

FILES

/.lyx/lyxrc Personal configuration file LIBDIR/lyxrc System wide configuration file LIBDIR/lyxrc.example System wide configuration file template LIBDIR/configure Updates LyX if config has changed LIBDIR/bind/ Keybindings LIBDIR/clipart/ Clipart pictures LIBDIR/doc/ Documentation in LyX format. LIBDIR/examples/ Example documents LIBDIR/images/ Images used as icons or in popups LIBDIR/kbd/ Keyboard mappings LIBDIR/layouts/ Layout descriptions LIBDIR/templates/ Templates for documents LIBDIR/tex/ Extra TeX files LIBDIR is the system directory. This is usually /usr/local/share/lyx on UNIX and %X11ROOT%XFree86libX11lyx on OS/2 with XFree.

SEE ALSO

reLyX(1), latex(1), xforms(5).

Full documentation in either native LyX or postscript format.

BUGS/LIMITATIONS

There are probably still some bugs in LyX. Please report them to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org with detailed info, including which version of LyX you use. Consult the __

LaTeX import is still not perfect and may produce buggy *.lyx files. Consult the reLyX documentation.

XFree on OS/2 currently does not support PC codepages. If you use emTeX to preview/print with cp850, etc., this might lead to strange emTeX error messages. Remedy: 1) In filenames use only A-Z, a-z, 1-9. 2) Install a recent LaTeX package inputenc.sty. Select Layout- reLyX adds the LaTeX command 'usepackage[latin1{inputenc}'.

LyX server has some limitations under OS/2: See Help-__

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 lyxrc configuration file. It contains settings that can be used to improve performance on slow systems.

AUTHORS

Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 by Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and the rest of the LyX Team (See Credits under the Help menu item).