Environment: X Window system.
Application Type: Visual frontend for LaTeX.
License: Open Source (Unknown).
LyX is the first WYSIWYM document processor: LyX is
an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach
to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of
visual layout to the software.
LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X),
OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same
xforms interface and therefore need an X server.
LyX produces high quality, professional output --
using LaTeX, an industrial strength typesetting engine, in the
background; LyX is far more than a front-end to LaTeX, however. No
knowledge of LaTeX is necessary to use LyX, although it will give a user
more power.
LyX is stable and fully featured. It has been used
for documents as large as a thesis, or as small as a business letter.
Despite its simple GUI interface (available in many languages), it
supports tables, figures, and hyperlinked cross-references, and has a
best-of-breed math editor (Source:
www.lyx.org; Access: 28-Oct-2002).
LyX is now GUI independent, as of 1.2.0. The only problem is that the
only fully functional frontend is the xforms version. The QT frontend
has progressed, however, and is almost ready for public consumption. The
developer's mailing list has been quite noisy about QT, so it could be
ready by 1.3.0. Behold a screenshot:
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/qt.png. Note that it is currently
using the default icons, but that these can be replaced
(Source:
dot.kde.org/1031695260/1031802943, By by Peter Clark on
Friday 13/Sep/2002, @00:42).
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