![]() ![]() Then Word trashed all the inline formulas and converted them to uneditable images, costing meĪt least a few hours. I couldn't get inline equations to look right-the spacing was awkward, the baselines didn't Having come back to academia forĪ PhD, I purchased Word and a leading equation editor M*thType, because that's what my fellow students ![]() Stint in industry, because everyone in the corporate world uses Word. I remember LyX from the alpha versions over a decade ago. I would like to thank the LyX team for their wonderful product. I am now using it for study in conjunction with JabRef and have recently figured out how to get Australian English spellcheck and thesaurus working. They could not understand how I could produce such consistent publications! Everyone else in the organisation was using M$ Word and M$ Publisher. ![]() I used LyX a long time ago, and have been using it for the last 18 months or so in preparing written teaching materials. In addition to the consistent formatting when required, it handles massive documents with great ease. I understand that LyX is commonly used for academic and mathematical texts - however, I would like to emphasize that LyX is also an incredibly useful tool for novelists. Interface it is a great piece of software. To conclude, I highly recommend LyX to anyone. Minimal version of Latex was packaged with LyX. Yes, text wrapping by default would not hurt. Having to read a very long row of text when LyX In Texmacs you get at least some approximation of what is a page, for example. The feature of directly editing the preamble is extremely useful. If you are already experienced with Latex, then you learn LyX very fast. (1) Steeper learning curve compared to Word-like processors. I believe that LyX has not replaced Latex due to several reasons combined: The only thing I could wish in the future,īetter collaboration tools (see Overleaf for example). And I was very happy about this.Īlthough LyX GUI looks not very appealing at first, the software is I ended up writing my PhD thesis in LyX thanks to a fellow student I tried to find a workaround using Texmacs until it crashed a few times.
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