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LyX (styled as

) is an open source document

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processor based on top of the LaTeX typesetting

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system. Unlike most word processors, which follow

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the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get")

Interaction

paradigm, LyX has a WYSIWYM ("what you see is

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what you mean") approach, where what shows up

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on the screen is only an approximation of what will

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Since LyX largely functions as a front-end to the

LaTeX typesetting system, it has the power and

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flexibility of LaTeX, and can handle documents

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including books, notes, theses, to academic

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papers, letters, etc. Knowledge of the LaTeX

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markup language is not necessary for basic usage,

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although a variety of specialized formatting is only

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Screenshot of LyX 2.1.x on Windows

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The LyX Team

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although a variety of specialized formatting is only

Developer(s)

The LyX Team

possible by adding LaTeX directives directly into

Initial release

1995

the page.

Stable release

2.1.3 / 10 February 2015; 2

months ago

LyX is popular among technical authors and

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scientists for its advanced mathematical modes,

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though it is increasingly used by non-

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Development status Active

Written in

C++, Qt 4

mathematically-oriented scholars as well[1][2] for its

Operating system

Cross-platform

bibliographic database integration[3] and ability to

Available in

Multilingual (23)

etina

manage multiple files.[3] LyX has also become

Type

Document processor

Dansk

popular among self-publishers.[4][5]

License

GNU General Public

License

Website

www.lyx.org

Languages

Deutsch
Espaol

LyX is available for various operating systems,

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including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX, OS/2

Galego

and Haiku. LyX can be redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public

Italiano

License and is thus free software.

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2 History
3 Versions
4 Pronunciation
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

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Features

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Automatically numbered headings, titles, and paragraphs, with table of contents

Text is laid out according to standard typographic rules, including indents, spacing, and
hyphenation
Support for right-to-left languages like Arabic,[6] Persian,[7] and Hebrew,[8] including support for
bi-directional text
Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages
Support for the XeTeX and LuaTeX typesetting systems
Standard operations like cut/paste, spell-checking
Notes
Textclasses and templates similar to the \documentclass[arguments]{theclass} command in
LaTeX
BibTeX Support
Table Editor (WYSIWYG)
Math Editor (WYSIWYG)
Ability to import various common text formats
Ability to natively export the document to DocBook
SGML, XHTML and plain text
SVN-support for collaboration
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History

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Matthias Ettrich started developing a shareware

program called Lyrix in 1995. It was then announced
on Usenet, where it received a great deal of attention

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with LyX

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Shortly after the initial release, Lyrix was renamed to LyX due to a name-clash with a word
processor produced by the company Santa Cruz Operation.[9] The name LyX was chosen because
of the file-suffix '.lyx' for Lyrix files.[10]

Versions
Version

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Release date

0.7.0

October 24, 1995

1.0.0

February 1, 1999

1.2.0

May 29, 2002

1.3.0

February 7, 2003

1.4.0

March 8, 2006

1.5.0

July 27, 2007

1.6.0

November 10, 2008

2.0.0

May 8, 2011.[11]

2.1.0

April 25, 2014.[12]

2.1.1

July 15, 2014

2.1.2

September 26, 2014

2.1.2.1

October 30, 2014

2.1.2.2

November 17, 2014

2.1.3

February 10, 2015

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version integrated with TeXLive called LyTeX.[13]

Pronunciation

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According to the project's wiki, the developers pronounce LyX as [lks], like the English word
"licks", or [lks].[14]

See also

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List of word processors

Free software portal

Comparison of word processors

Document processor
Comparison of TeX editors
Scientific WorkPlace A proprietary software (non-free) counterpart of LyX
Qt 4 toolkit, which is used for the user interface in LyX.[15]

References

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1. ^ "Lyx for Linguistics" .

2. ^ "Lyx for Humanities" .
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^ a b "Lyx features" .
^ "LyX and Lulu" .
^ "LyX produced publications" .
^ "Arabic support for LyX" .
^ "Farsi support for LyX" .
^ "Hebrew support for LyX" .
^ "WANTED: Name for Wordprocessor (comp.os.linux.development.apps)"
^ LyX Archaeology
^ "ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released" . Retrieved 2011-05-08.

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"LyX 2.1.0 released" . Retrieved 2014-04-26.

LyTeX
FAQ/Pronunciation , LyX Wiki. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc13

External links

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Official LyX Website

LyX Wiki
A comparative review of Scientific WorkPlace and LyX

in Journal of Statistical Software

Collection of thesis and dissertation LyX-templates

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