On 05/07/2014 12:10 AM, Barry Brent wrote:
Hi---
As you probably can tell by now, I'm running into trouble teaching
myself how to use LyX from your document "The LyX Tutorial".
I just tried out the suggestions in section 2.1.1:
2.1.1 Typing, Viewing, and Exporting
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Open a new file with File?New
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Type a sentence like: This is my first LYX document!
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Save your document with File ? Save As.
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Create a PDF file, with View?View or the toolbar button
page8image9712. LYX will open a PDF-viewer program displaying your
document as it will look when printed.3
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Export the ready to print document with File ? Export to a format
you want.
Congratulations! You have written your first LYX document. All of
the rest is just details.
I got through the first three bullet points, but not the fourth.
(I'm using Mac OS 9.2.) In your pull-down menu "View" there is no
sub-option also called "View". But there *is* an option called
"Toolbars" within which I found an option called "View/Update".
That's as close as I could come to "View?View".
View/Update didn't work. (No viewer was forthcoming.)
Which version are you using? You should have View>View (Other Formats)
in 2.0.x (and it appears you are using the Tutorial from some such
version). That has been moved to the Document menu (Document> View
(Other Formats)) in 2.1.x. You should be able to choose PDF (pdflatex),
e.g., off that menu.
FYI, these questions are better suited to the lyx-users list. This list
is for discussion of problems with the documentation itself. Which maybe
there is some here, but the main issues seem to be using the program.
Richard
