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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
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based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
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is released under a Free Software/Open Source license (GPL v.2).
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LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
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right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
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details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
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page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
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legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
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On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
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or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
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like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
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all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
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different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
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'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.
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LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
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internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
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Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
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