Content preview from Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
- When you first open LyX, you are presented with a window very similar to a word processor, as follows:
- It is highly recommended you take a look at the documents under the Help menu, particularly the Introduction and Tutorial. Doing so will only take a few hours, at most, but they explains the majority of the basic features of LyX.
- Of special note is the drop-down box in the top-left corner, labeled Standard in the screenshot. This is the Environment interface for determining what a text component is. The following options are available through this menu:
- Standard: Normal paragraph.
- LyX-Code: LyX-specific commands.
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