The LyX help is given below:

   C:\LyX\Tex>lyx --help

   C:\LyX\Tex>rem LyX.bat  To provide command line access to LyX

   C:\LyX\Tex>C:\Lyx\lyx\bin\lyx.exe  --help
   Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
   Command line switches (case sensitive):
           -help              summarize LyX usage
           -userdir dir       try to set user directory to dir
           -sysdir dir        try to set system directory to dir
           -geometry WxH+X+Y  set geometry of the main window
           -dbg feature[,feature]...
                     select the features to debug.
                     Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
           -x [--execute] command
                     where command is a lyx command.
           -e [--export] fmt
                     where fmt is the export format of choice.
           -i [--import] fmt file.xxx
                     where fmt is the import format of choice
                     and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
           -version        summarize version and build info
   Check the LyX man page for more details.

   C:\LyX\Tex>

-x seems to indicate that LyX has a number of commands. Is this correct? I can't find any listing of the varous acceptable commands.

I would appreciate a pointer to the appropriate documentation.

Colin W

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