Lyx : A Book Writer's Dream - NEWLUG

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Presentation slides from the December 2012 NEWLUG presentation on LyX. Presented by Tim Bolz.

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  • 1. LyXThe Document Processor or A Book writers Dream

2. What is LyX? A document processor based on (WYSIWYM)What you see is what you mean Differs from traditional word processors like MSWord, WordPerfect and even Open Office and LibreOffice which use (WYSIWYG). What you see iswhat you get. Front End for a typesetting program used inAcademia know as LaTeX. 3. Why use LyX? You can worry more about your content rather thanhow to format it. Once what your writing is written it produce apublished output. You dont have to worry aboutpage numbering, footnotes, Table of contents andcross references. 4. What you wont find in LyX. Document Ruler Tab Stops Extra white spaces hitting space or enter a coupleof times. 5. Where LyX excels Hyphenation Lists of any type Mathematics Tables Cross-referencing 6. Basics of LyX 7. How to get started File > New Document > Settings... Document Class pick the type you want to make 8. Pick your Document from Document class 9. Everything you need is here 10. Help Help > Introduction Help > Tutorial Help > User Guide 11. Things to Do Just write, Include everything, Titles, Chapters, andcontent. Formatting - can come latter : not while your in your writing unless it is needed. Can keep you creativityflowing without worrying about how it looks. Look at your book before you publish it. 12. Now Show some examples http://www.lipsum.com/ Use this to see add sometext Type away Format later Format Title , Author, Chapter, footnotes andothers. 13. Resources http://www.lyx.org/ Use the help in LyX for Introduction, Tutorial andUser Guide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCo8-Fbx1xU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvhdLJ0C6pk