“…if Latex has a steep learning curve, Lyx is the cable car
that whisks you two thirds of the way up the mountain so you can
enjoy the views without having to break a sweat. And just as web
editors can create websites without you needing to know HTML, Lyx
is able to prepare documents for typesetting without getting too
involved in all the intricacies of Latex.“Lyx is a GUI editor originally created in the 1990s by Matthias
Ettrich that uses Latex macros to pass parameters to the Tex
typesetting engine (which was originally created in the 1970s by
Donald Knuth after he became upset by the poor quality
phototypesetting of one of his books). It’s a document processor,
not a word processor, producing high-quality documents with Tex
looking after font sizes, margins and graphics.“But Lyx isn’t WYSIWIG; instead it offers a preview option. The
Input screen can show comments, cross-references and so on, but it
does more. For example, if you want a rotate a table or figure in
the output, you can continue to work on it on the Input screen in
normal orientation.”
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