In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/04/00
at 05:11 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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>One would expect at least a cumbersome and slow FIND/FIND NEXT on the menu.
>Even that would beat just plowing along.
It's there in the menu... Edit > Find and replace
>But better to have some arrangement for precise RE searching. At least with
>the normal tools, but first we must know what files to look in. The rpm I
The introduction speaks to the doc organization, IIRC.
>have (yx-1.0.4-1), when listing the files I see nothing that looks like a
>documentation file other than the man pages and readmes.
I can't speak to rpm's (I'm a Debian type ;) but found my files in
/usr/X11R6/share/lyx/doc
You can determine the location of yours simply by loading one of them from
the Help menu. The file's location will then be found in the bar at the
bottom of the window.
>Seems some unconventional doc type file is used.
>The many *.lyx files are not where the manual is either I guess.
>Similarly with the source tar.gz, I see no conventional docs directory.
>How can a user do RE searches of the docs. It wasn't clear to me how the
>Manual and User Guide are packaged. In what format? Surely there is a way
>to do precise searching in the voluminous documentation.
Expect something akin to LaTex. :-) They certainly can be searched with
grep. Not being a Linux guru, I don't know what you mean by RE search.
Sorry.
HTH,
Kenward
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