LYX(1)

NAME
LyX - A graphical frontend for LaTeX

SYNOPSIS
lyx [ command-line switches ] [ files.lyx ... ]

DESCRIPTION
LyX is too complex to be described in the "man" page format. Ask your system administrator for the location of the full Documentation either in native LyX or in PostScript format. LyX is a frontend for LaTeX. It combines the comfortable usage of a word processor with the high quality of LaTeX's typesetting. For that reason LyX proposes an almost WYSIWYG-view on the document. "Almost" means that the line- and page breaks are not displayed exactly as they will be in the printed document. But that isn't really necessary, since LyX helps you to write portable documents with the generic markup concept. With this concept, the typesetter (here: LaTeX) has enough information to break your text in a very nice manner. So line- and page breaks aren't your problem anymore. That means you don't have to care about the rest of the document, when you do changes at the beginning. Neither do you need to do low-level formatting like "large bold italic modern font and a little space above and below", but simply choose a so-called "layout" for each paragraph. Of course you can also do some low-level formatting, but the usual way with LyX is to tell the text what it is, not what it should look like. For that reason I call LyX a High Level Word Processor. LyX uses the XFORMS library as toolkit. It should run everywhere, where XFORMS runs. This is on all major Unix platforms as well as PC platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex, Cray, i386/Linux, Alpha/Linux, i386/FreeBSD, i386/NetBSD, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others.

OPTIONS
In addition to the options supported by the Forms Library LyX supports the following command-line switches:

-widthx
    the width of the main window in LyX.

-heightx
    the height of the main window in LyX.

-dbgdebug-level
    where debug-level is a sum of debugging options:
    1 generic info when running LyX
    2 init
    4 keys
    8 toolbar
    16 lyxlex parser
    32 lyxrc
    65535 all of the above

-Reverse
    swaps foreground and background colors.

-Mono

-MathColor

-MathFramColor

-FootColor

-FillColor

-OnOFFLineColor

-LatexColor

-InsetColor

-LightedColor

All programs written using the
    Forms Library recognize the following command line options

-display host:dpy
    specifies the server to connect to.

-bw borderwidth
    specifies the border width to use to built-in objects.

-visual visualName
    requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

-depth depth
    requests a specific depth.

-debug level
    generates some info about the state of the XForms. where level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

-sync
    runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.

-private
    requests a private colormap for the application.

-shared
    requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more colors than available. For those colors that can't be allocated in the shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest matching color is used.

-stdcmap
    requests a standard colormap.

-name  newname
    specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

BUGS
There is probably still some bugs in LyX, please report them to: lyx@via.ecp.fr

SEE ALSO
latex(1) xforms(5) Full documentation in either native LyX or PostScript format.

AUTHOR
Copyright 1995, 1996 by Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and the rest of the LyX Team (See CREDITS)