1998-07-12 07:08:40 +00:00
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LyX is a wordprocessor frontend to LaTeX, which gives both the
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ease-of-use of a wordprocessor, and the flexibility and power
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of LaTeX.
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1998-07-12 07:08:40 +00:00
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2003-01-21 01:43:46 +00:00
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LyX produces high quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an
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industrial strength typesetting engine, in the background; LyX is
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far more than a front-end to LaTeX, however. No knowledge of LaTeX
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is necessary to use LyX, although it will give a user more power.
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LyX is stable and fully featured. It has been used for documents
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as large as a thesis, or as small as a business letter.
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Despite its simple GUI interface (available in many languages),
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2005-03-15 01:57:02 +00:00
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it supports tables, figures, and hyperlinked cross-references, and
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2003-01-21 01:43:46 +00:00
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best-of-breed math editor.
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Flavors:
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qt - build with a Qt GUI (open-source GPL library)
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xforms - build with an XForms GUI (closed-source library)
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