On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:38:31AM +0000, e-letter wrote: > I looked at my (basic) lyx file in a text editor and it seems a simple > structure of (custom?) latex type commands (e.g. \layout).
They look similar, but it's not LaTeX. > Reading the extended manual, I guess that you suggest I should export > my lyx file into latex, edit the latex file and then import into lyx > when I am able to use lyx? > > Thanks in advance. I think editing .lyx works for small non-structural changes. Be careful with whitespace at the beginning of lines and line breaks in general. Some are needed and some are forbidden, and it's usually not clear when and why... Andre'