Am 07.06.2012 12:26, schrieb Julia Schäfer:
I have started and by now quite proceeded to write my thesis using LyX - its
the first time ever I am using LyX and it is still quite hard for me. So I am
trying to learn by reading the manuals / introduchtions / tutorials. I am ready
to learn and to work on it, still there are so many informations at so many
different places out there, so hard to find, that by now I am kind of running
out of time. If I can't find easy help with my problems soon, I will definitely
have to swich back to word... :-(
Too bad. When I started using LyX as a complete newbie I found the manuals very helpful. I read the
Intro manual completely, then worked through the Tutorial and after 4hours I was able to start
writing my first report for the university.
As in the Introduction to LyX you ask readers not to hesitate about giving
feedback, here is mine:
It would be GREAT to have shorter, clearer Manuals and Informations that are a
bit easier to navigate.
I'm the documentation maintainer and tried to accomplish this. Therefore we have the following
structure:
- Intro + Tutorial for newbies
- UserGuide as general reference
- Math + EmbeddedObjects as manuals explaining everything in detail including
LaTeX tricks
You would help me if you could be more precise what you current problem is, e.g. tell me 3 of your
problems you have and you cannot solve.
In general, what is often the problem for newbiew is that they want to format everything from the
beginning and therefore view their document all the time and fiddle around with footer lies etc. You
will see that LyX/LaTeX is really powerful if you concentrate on writing. The formatting is done by
LaTeX and you can at any time later (when you know a bit more how to work with LyX) change
everything to reformat your document. For example you can change the document size from A4 to B5 if
you need this and the document will still look well formatted - try this with Word.
Note also that LyX comes with a thesis template. You find it in the installation folder of LyX under
"\templates\thesis". To use it, copy the whole "thesis" folder to a place you like and open then
there the file "thesis.lyx".
For further questions, please ask.
regards Uwe
