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| Another strength of LyX is literature handling. With LaTeX's BibTeX format, you can cite directly from literature databases. Chose Insert->Lists & TOC->BibTeX Reference where you want to place the literature list (usually at the end of a document) |  | |
| This will open another dialog where you can chose the database and a style file (which is responsible for the layout of the citations) |  | |
| Now you can cite with a single click on Insert->Citation, which opens the citation dialog. Chose the relevant entry and you are done. Author-Year style (Lamport 1987) is also supported. |  | |
| You'll get another grey box in LyX; the references and the literature list are generated automagically. |  |  |
| Now I know most of you are about to click the "mailto:" address at the bottom of this page to tell me I misspelled "authority" in the document. Aha! I say. Allow me to demonstrate the spellchecker. Click on Edit->Spellchecker and start it running. Our misspelled word is highlighted. Click on the correct spelling and then "Replace word" to fix it. |  | |
| Notice that I can make the footnote box "collapse" by clicking on the "foot" tab. This way, it doesn't clutter up the text. Okay, winding up. To emphasize text, type the text, |  | |
| highlight it, and press the "!" button. This changes the text mode to "emphasize", which happens to be an italic font change. |  |  |
| Almost all TeX and LaTeX commands can be inserted into a LyX file, if LyX doesn't natively support a LaTeX directive that you need. Just insert the (in this case, plain TeX) code into an ERT inset (Insert->TeX). Beautiful ... |  |  |
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