Dear Uwe, many thanks for the helpful explanations; much appreciated. I can't provide a screen-shot (for it must be remembered that THAT LyX installation (my first) was defective, with frequent crashes -- a problem since fixed by correctly down-loading the carbon version for my Mac -- with not one crash so far) but here's my description of the "picture":
<< By LyX-Reconfigure I mean the entry below LyX-About in the drop-down menu belonging to LyX in the primary LyX toolbar. Whereas there was initially one such entry (on one line), five such lines appeared, all titled Reconfigure. >> What was I doing that could possibly have contributed to this phenomenon? I was certainly trying to get LyX to work in line with my understanding of the Manuals. BUT I did also introducing some simple LaTeX coding into the document to see how it performed. That's about it; me having no other clue as to what was going on. Gruss, Gordon On 04/02/2013, at 2:21 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 02.02.2013 01:13, schrieb Gordon Watson: > >> As a LyX beginner (seeking to present beautiful maths and physics articles), >> I'm sure that I would really benefit from a LyX Encyclopedia, accessed via >> the LyX toolbar:... > > Dear Gordon, > > in the Help menu you already find a useful tutorial how LyX works. For more > special things like in your case math, we have special manuals like the Math > manual. > Every LyX toolbar button is explained in the appendices of the LyX userguide > you also find in the Help menu. > > We have chosen this way for the documentation because learning special things > only makes sense if you do it in LyX. So you can copy some text from the > manuals to your file and get what you want. > We also have a Wiki > wiki.lyx.org > where you find some more information and where you can add things you found > out. But it turned out that the Wiki is not that helpful as if taking an > existing LyX file like the documentation files. > >> For example, soon after I started with LyX, (somehow) 5 lines of >> LyX-Reconfigure soon appeared!? > > I don't understand. Could you provide a screenshot? > > regards Uwe
