Lyx templates4/8/2023 ![]() ![]() These names may sound a little odd, because they describe the meaning of the typography rather than its implementation. Styling of individual words is more limited, though there are provisions for bold, emphasis, and noun text on the “Layout” menu. There are also less-commonly used styles, such as “Quotation” for block quotations. If you just want the “look” of a heading, but no numbering or special handling, there are variants of these styles (pre-pended with an asterisk, as in “*Subsection”) provided for that purpose. If you use the numbered styles (the ones with no special markings), then section numbers will automatically be generated alongside of the headings, and autogeneration and navigation tools will treat them specially. For most documents, you’ll only need two or three levels of headings, but, as you can see, it is possible for a structure to be quite finely divided. After this, the next most frequent types you will deal with are the heading styles, called: “Part”, “Section”, “Subsection”, “Subsubsection”, “Paragraph”, and “Subparagraph”. The main style you will use is the “Standard” style, which applies to ordinary paragraph text. Figure 1: The most commonly used widget in the LyX interface is the style menu Most of your formatting work is done with this menu, and involves a single step of selecting the style for the current paragraph. The document view in the window looks very much like it would in any WYSIWYG word processor, but you should notice that the style menu is prominent on the upper left. If you take a look at the default “article” template for LyX, you can see what structured writing is all about. As the need arises, you can add styles to already written text. Concentrate on what you are writing, not on how you are going to format it. So, my first bit of advice when starting out with LyX has to be “let go”. Concentrate on what you are writing, not on how you are going to format it The main point, though, is that once you have the document created, you can apply transformations to the presentation after the fact, and they will be propagated throughout your document with a minimum of fuss. First of all, the general purpose styles that are provided with the program are good enough for everyday writing tasks (so you won’t often have to think about presentation at all). With LyX, you don’t need to do such things. The problem is that you get an urge to control details about presentation (rather than meaning or “content”), and you may try to control them too early in the authoring process. WYSIWYM does take some getting used to if you’ve come fresh from the world of WYSIWYG. ![]() LyX, with its integrated graphical environment, may be the friendliest place to learn it. Sometimes it’s called “structured writing” or “structured authoring”, but whatever name it goes by, you’ll see this idea repeated in many places. You write what you mean, then you use some type of formatter to create presentation layouts. However, it’s a philosophy that you will find in many “native” free software text-processing systems everywhere, from online “content management systems” to book publishing. The author of LyX, Matthias Ettrich, calls this approach “what you see is what you mean” (WYSIWYM). In the hubbub over the Open Document Format and competing “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) word processors, a long-standing alternative model of word processing systems, with much deeper roots in the free software world, has been mostly overlooked. ![]()
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