Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st May 2006 15:08 UTC, submitted by da_Chicken
"In the hubbub over the ODF and competing 'what you see is what you get' word processors, a long-standing alternative model of word processing systems has been mostly overlooked. The author of LyX, Matthias Ettrich, calls this approach 'what you see is what you mean'. However, it's a philosophy that you will find in many 'native' free software text-processing systems everywhere, from online 'content management systems' to book publishing. You write what you mean, then you use some type of formatter to create presentation layouts. LyX, with its integrated graphical environment, may be the friendliest place to learn it."
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2005-07-06
While it's not suitable for letters and posters, Lyx is an excellent choice for large structured documents. For academic reports there is no equal: it's got excellent support for bibliographies, diagram placement, formulae and in-document references.
The current Lyx GUI does have issues, though, in terms of usability. A lot of stuff is still hanging around from the Motif days. For example there are a couple of ideas in the likes of Kile which it would be nice to see in Lyx, but that's not going to happen soon. That said, once you get your head around its idiosyncracies, you'll find that you can write documents at an impressive speed.
For Windows users, this installer is the best way to get started: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller
As a companion to Lyx, you can use JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) to maintain your bibliography database in the Bibtex format.
Edited 2006-05-21 16:38