LyX is released under a Free Software/Open Source license, runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X, and is available in several languages. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor its printed output - or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced - looks like nothing else. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. VIM is one of the best editors ever made and LaTeX is an extremely powerful TeX-based typesetting program.

Don’t even expect to create cool web pages with it. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in. VIM-LaTeX combines the best of VIM and LaTeX. It is a WYSIWYG editor of structured documents, texts that have hierarchical and semantically meaningful structure, headers, lists, plaintext islands, tables and so on. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard.

This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/ LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents ( WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance ( WYSIWYG).

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