I'm new to LyX and I'm trying to create my first LyX document using the LyX Tutorial. I described my first try in an email to lyx-d...@lists.lyx.org as follows:
****** I’m running into trouble teaching myself how to use LyX from your document “The LyX Tutorial”. I just tried out the suggestions in section 2.1.1: 2.1.1 Typing, Viewing, and Exporting Open a new file with File◃New Type a sentence like: This is my first LYX document! Save your document with File ◃ Save As. Create a PDF file, with View◃View or the toolbar button <Mail Attachment.png>. LYX will open a PDF-viewer program displaying your document as it will look when printed.3 Export the ready to print document with File ◃ Export to a format you want. Congratulations! You have written your first LYX document. All of the rest is just details. I got through the first three bullet points, but not the fourth. (I’m using Mac OS 9.2.) In your pull- down menu “View” there is no sub-option also called “View”. But there *is* an option called “Toolbars” within which I found an option called “View/Update”. That’s as close as I could come to “View◃View”. View/Update didn’t work. (No viewer was forthcoming.) ***** The reply was as follows: ***** Which version are you using? You should have View>View (Other Formats) in 2.0.x (and it appears you are using the Tutorial from some such version). That has been moved to the Document menu (Document> View (Other Formats)) in 2.1.x. You should be able to choose PDF (pdflatex), e.g., off that menu. FYI, these questions are better suited to the lyx-users list. This list is for discussion of problems with the documentation itself. Which maybe there is some here, but the main issues seem to be using the program. ***** As it happens I'm using version 2.1 with Mac OS 9. But in the Mac OS 9 version of Version 2.1, the menu Document ◃ View (Other Formats) is empty. Please advise. Thanks, Barry Brent barrybr...@iphouse.com
