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Basic Philosophy Standard

The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the form of what you're writing and not the content. Subsection

How LyX does it Standard

LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport in 1985. It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created by Donald Knuth in 1984. LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX. Leslie Lamport once said (see reference _inset LatexCommand [#!lamport!#]

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The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the author's ideas. For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its logical structure. Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements, should be distinguished visually from one another.... Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the logical structure by typing special commands.... As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical structure, not its visual appearance. Subsection

Why LyX is better Standard

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LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX. It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX (which is practically a programming language). LyX is basically like other _inset Quotes eld inset

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word processors, except that LyX is _inset Quotes eld inset

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. In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power of LaTeX. This is a Good Thing. Also, the file format is platform independent. Best of all, it's FREE! Section

Features of LyX Standard

LyX has many features which make writing documents easier. _float footnote Standard

After all, why else would you want to use it? float I'm italic very excited default to talk about them. Here's a list of just a few. Itemize

LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you Itemize

LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae Standard

For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other word processors, see Section _inset LatexCommand

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, which can be found on page _inset LatexCommand

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Lame attempts to use other LyX stuff Standard

I wrote a program the other day. It looked like this. LyX-Code

5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM LyX-Code

10 PRINT _inset Quotes eld inset

I'M AWESOME! _inset Quotes erd inset

LyX-Code

20 GOTO 10 Standard

After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so I wrote this haiku Verse

LyX is really great
Typesetting word processor
It saves so much time Section

Math Stuff Standard

My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation. If _inset Formula ax² + bx + c = 0 inset

(eq.1), then _inset Formula x = inset

(eq. 2). Standard

Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: _inset Formula f'(x)≡ inset

(eq. 3). Section

Notes Standard

A couple notes about LyXifiying this file: Itemize

I was able to remove the lines made with dashes. They were there purely to separate the title and references from the rest of the document. LyX (LaTeX) knows enough to separate these parts of the document with space. Itemize

I didn't bother putting the math equations in display mode. Also, I didn't use LyX' automatic equation numbering, because it's not described in the on Tutorial default . Itemize

I didn't have to type the word _inset Quotes eld inset

References _inset Quotes erd inset

below. LyX automatically writes it (or the word _inset Quotes eld inset

Bibliography, _inset Quotes erd inset

depending on the textclass) when you select sans Bibliography default style. Bibliography