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How to Cheat on your L
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EX Homework: A Beginner’s Guide to Lyx
Paul E. Johnson1
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1Department of Political Science 2Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, University of Kansas
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How to Cheat on your L A T EX Homework: A Beginners Guide to Lyx - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
How to Cheat on your L A T EX Homework: A Beginners Guide to Lyx - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
L YX 1 / 10 How to Cheat on your L A T EX Homework: A Beginners Guide to Lyx Paul E. Johnson 1 2 1 Department of Political Science 2 Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, University of Kansas 2016 L YX 2 / 10 Outline 1 What is
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Get a copy! Should be in the CRMDA Web pages! This is a guide for learning about L
AT
EX from L
- YX. As many
people have noticed, L
AT
EX offers a seemingly endless array of special packages, functions, and code arrangements that emerge from a countless number of researchers in virtually every country in the world. Many new L
AT
EX users simply take a professor’s template document and revise “inside the borders” while they learn their way around. L YX can help because it
- ffers a Graphical User Interface that helps novices get
complicated-looking results without too much suffering. I have written also a different “Beginners Guide to L YX”http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/ LatexAndLyx/LyX-Beginner/LyX-Beginner-1.pdf
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Learn LyX
L YX is a handy way to create L
AT
EX documents It is so handy, you may never actually need to edit a “raw” *.tex file But, even if you do, L YX is an extremely handy system that will
help you learn L
A
T EX markup serve as a Living-Breathing L
A
T EX Cheat sheet!
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I don’t mean that in a bad way
If “cheat sheet” is insulting, I’m sorry. Perhaps we call it an interactive teaching system!
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Proceed with Lyx, point-by-point!
1 Open L
YX, See Pull-down
2 Compiler buttons: 3 File -> Save As. Creates *.lyx 4 File -> Export -> L A
T EX (pdflatex). Creates *.tex.
5 Check your file folder for the output 1 Don’t Hide Suffixes 6 In Lyx, choose View -> Source Pane. “Complete Source”. 7 Math: Ctl-m is inline, try α and β. 8 Math: Ctl-Shift-m (C-M) is “display math equation”. 9 Experiment with “tabular” objects in L
YX.
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Proceed with Lyx, point-by-point! ...
10 Insert -> Graphics. 11 Fix Fonts! 12 Floating figure. 13 Try out a floating table. 14 Label the display equation. 15 Cross References 16 Experiment with the Environment Chooser, eg
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17 Test Section and Section* and Subsection and Subsection*. 18 Use Listings, not Verbatim, to insert material from other programs. 1 Choose “Document -> Settings”. 19 Choose “Document -> Settings”.
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Proceed with Lyx, point-by-point! ...
20 http://pj.freefaculty.org/latex. That points to a number of
documents, most of which are housed under the folder http://pj. freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/LatexAndLyx.
21 If you ever start to think you ought to use MS Word or similar