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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: help!
From:       rgheck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2008-10-28 15:01:06
Message-ID: 49072932.4000206 () bobjweil ! com
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f l wrote:
> Excuse me! I am a fresh man of lyx! But I have used latex months! To my
> disappointment,I can't understand how to use lyx to edit the article and get
> the pdf of the article!
> Here is I want to try on lyx:
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> This is my first lyx document.
>
> \end{document}
>
> Can you tell me is there some errors?And can you give me an example of
> original file of lyx ,what's more ,can you give a picture to explain how to
> run lyx to get the pdf? Thank you !
>
>   

First, you posted this to the documentation development list, not to the 
user list. Questions like this go to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org. You'll 
want to join that list, too, and maybe get off the documentation list.

The LyX Tutorial, which you can find under Help>Tutorial, will answer 
this question and many more. (Maybe you should read Help>Introduction 
first.) After you've read the tutorial, you might want to have a look at 
Help>User's Guide.

That said, do this:
1. Open LyX.
2. File>New
3. Type "This is my first LyX document."
4. View>PDF (pdflatex)
This should compile the document and show you the pdf. If you want to 
see the LaTeX that LyX produced, then:
5. View>View Source
6. Check the "Complete source" button.
And if you want a copy of the pdf:
7. File>Save (and choose a place to save it)
7. File>Export>PDF (pdflatex)
That'll dump a copy of the PDF in the same directory as where you saved 
the file.

rh


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