Update lyx update#

Looking at 2.0īinaries haven't shown up for LyX 2.0 yet, but there's very little difficulty in compiling from source. It can produce simple documents, or entire books with beautifully (thanks to TeX/LaTeX) rendered equations.

For instance, LyX has spell checking, version tracking, and even revision control. Though LyX works differently than Word or Writer, it has many of the features that users would like to have. Another is that LyX can export to a number of formats (PDF, HTML, plain text, etc.) and the presentation is going to change depending on the stylesheet and target format. One reason for that is that the LyX folks want users to focus on the writing rather than bit-twiddling the presentation. LyX presents the structure of the document instead of the exact presentation. Instead, the LyX motto is 'What You See Is What You Mean' (WYSIWYM). LyX doesn't attempt to render documents in a 'What You See Is What You Get' (WYSIWYG) style. The difference between LyX and, say, LibreOffice Writer or Microsoft Word goes beyond the document format on the backend. LyX does make it possible to insert TeX/LaTeX markup, but you don't generally need to. At least, not unless one wants to fiddle with the markup. Many LaTeX commands, LyX 2.0 is shaping up very nicely.įor the uninitiated, LyX is a multi-platform 'document processor,' essentially a front-end for editing TeX/LaTeX documents without having to muck with the actual TeX/LaTeX markup. With better revision control, document previews, and new support for On November 10, the LyX project unveiled the first beta for LyXĢ.0.

Update lyx update#

The LyX project has been quietly, but effectively, hammering awayĪt a major update to its document processing program for about two This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.