LyX the X11 Document Processor

What is LyX?

LyX is a frontend to LaTeX. It combines the comfortable usage of a word processor with the high quality of LaTeX's typesetting, providing an almost-WYSIWYG view of the document. ``Almost'' means that the line- and page breaks are not displayed exactly as they will be in the printed document. But that isn't really necessary, since LyX helps you to write portable documents with the generic mark-up concept. With this concept, the typesetter (here: LaTeX) has enough information to break your text in a very nice manner. So line- and pagebreak aren't your problem anymore. You don't even have to care about the rest of the document when you make changes at the beginning. You also do not have to do low-level formatting like ``large bold italic sans serif font and a little space above and below'', but simply choose a so-called ``layout'' for each paragraph. Of course you can also do some low-level formatting, but the usual way is to tell LyX what the text is, not what it should look like. In a sense, LyX gives you WYSIWYM (What You See is What You Mean) editing (* Note from Matthias Ettrich: ``For that reason I call LyX a High Level Word Processor.'').

How to get Lyx

The actual public version of LyX is lyx-1.1.6pre3.

Other LyX Pages

The Official LyX-Page of the Code-Mantainer in Norway
LyX, the word-processor front-end for LaTeX
And a danish one 'LyX - et tekstbehandlingssystem til Unix'
Australia is also interested `LyX - The LaTeX Wordprocessor`