Tutorial

[Daniel]

I just looked at the Tutorial for the first time ever. It says:

"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 Document->View or the toolbar button . LyX 
will open a PDF-viewer program displaying your document as it will look 
when printed.

• 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."

Since this deviates a bit from how I use LyX, I was curious whether some 
explanation might be helpful.

I think it could be clearer that the "Save" step is optional for viewing 
a document. LyX is totally fine with just viewing a temporary created 
document which I often find handy, in particular if I just want to try 
something out. So, the step might be more accurately,

"• *Optionally, s*ave your document with File->Save As."

Also, once the viewer shows the document, I found it handy to just use 
the viewer's Save feature instead of LyX's Export feature. Is that 
something that is not advised for some reason?

While looking at the Export feature I noticed that the Export menu might 
be a bit intimidating for the newcomer who might not know what to choose 
here in order to get the desired export format, in particular if it is 
not advised to use the viewer for this operation. In that case, maybe 
the step could be explained better like

"• Export the ready to print document with File->Export*->Export [PDF 
(pdflatex)] to the PDF format viewed in the previous step or* to 
a*nother* format you want."

Daniel