#This file was created by Tue Mar 2 14:50:20 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1998 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass article \language default \inputencoding default \fontscheme default \graphics dvips \paperfontsize 12 \spacing single \papersize letterpaper \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle plain \layout Standard THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT \begin_inset Info Hint: the title should look more like a title \end_inset \layout Standard by Fee LyX \begin_inset Info Hint: Fee is the AUTHOR \end_inset \layout Standard June 12, 1972 \begin_inset Info Hint: this is a DATE \end_inset \layout Standard Table of Contents \begin_inset Info Hint: It would be nice if we didn't have to type the Table of Contents explicitly \end_inset \layout Standard 1. Basic Philosophy..................1 \layout Standard 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1 \layout Standard 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1 \layout Standard 2. Features of LyX \layout Standard 3. Lame Attempts to use more LyX stuff \layout Standard 4. Math Stuff \layout Standard --------------------------------------------------- \layout Standard 1. Basic Philosophy \begin_inset Info Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more \end_inset \layout Standard The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the form of what you're writing and not the content. \layout Standard 1.1 How LyX does it \layout 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 [1]) \begin_inset Info Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be "hard-coded". What if we make Lamport's book the second item in the bibliography? \end_inset : \layout Standard \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset 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. \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset \begin_inset Info Hint: This is a QUOTE \end_inset \layout Standard 1.2 Why LyX is better \layout Standard 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 \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset What you see is what you get \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset word processors, except that LyX is \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset What you see is what you mean \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset . 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! \layout Standard 2. Features of LyX \layout Standard LyX has many features which make writing documents easier. (After all, why else would you want to use it? \begin_inset Info Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote \end_inset ) I'm VERY EXCITED \begin_inset Info Hint: Emphasize! \end_inset to talk about them. Here's a list of just a few. \layout Standard * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you \layout Standard * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae \layout Standard For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1. \begin_inset Info Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be "hard-coded". What if we change the section numbers? \end_inset \layout Standard 3. Lame attempts to use other LyX stuff \layout Standard I wrote a program the other day. It looked like this. \layout Standard 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM \layout Standard 10 PRINT \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset I'M AWESOME! \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset \layout Standard 20 GOTO 10 \begin_inset Info Hint: This is computer CODE \end_inset \layout Standard After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so I wrote this haiku \layout Standard LyX is really great \layout Standard Typesetting word processor \layout Standard It saves so much time \begin_inset Info Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry, otherwise known as VERSE \end_inset \layout Standard 4. Math Stuff \begin_inset Info Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode! \end_inset \layout Standard My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation. If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac all divided by 2a (eq. 2). \layout Standard Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax (eq. 3). \layout Standard ------------------------------------------------ \layout Standard REFERENCES \layout Standard [1] Lamport, Leslie. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994. \the_end