On Tuesday 4 October 2011 20:10:05 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, John R Hudson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 4 October 2011 18:57:03 Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'm looking a Lyx as a replacement document tool. I'm trying to run > >> > the examples in the tutorial. > >> > I'm running Kubuntu Linux 11.10 and I have downloaded Latex2e, Lyx, > >> > etc using the package manager. > >> > > >> > I tried typing in a single sentence into Lyx and saved it to creat a > >> > test.lyx file. I ran: > >> > latex test.lyx > >> > >> You don't need to do this when you use LyX. Simply access View > View > >> PDF (pdflatex) or similar to compile your document. If you want to do > >> this manually using the command line (not recommended), then do File > > >> Export > LaTeX and then compile it as you're used to. See LyX > >> Essentials for some pointers. [1] > >> > >> Regards > >> Liviu > > > > Just to explain; a LyX 2 file is an XML file, not a TeX file. It contains > > all > > To correct, the .lyx file format is not XML, not yet at least. But it > is indeed not a LaTeX file since LyX is a frontend not only to LaTeX, > but can also output HTML, Docbook, etc. > Liviu
Thanks for clarifying that. John > > > the additional information needed to set up the input screen in LyX. When > > you ask for an output, it creates a TeX file and sends the necessary > > commands to TeX or pdftex or whatever for processing. The > > File>Export>LaTeX option stops after the TeX file creation.
