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42 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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71 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
72 what you're writing and not the form.
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82 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
84 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
85 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
86 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
87 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference
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97 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
99 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
101 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
102 should be distinguished visually from one another....
103 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
104 logical structure by typing special commands....
105 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
106 structure, not its visual appearance.
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121 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
122 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
123 (which is practically a programming language).
124 LyX is basically like other
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128 What you see is what you get
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132 word processors, except that LyX is
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136 What you see is what you mean
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141 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
143 This is a Good Thing.
144 Also, the file format is platform independent.
145 Best of all, it's FREE!
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155 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
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161 After all, why else would you want to use it?
173 Here's a list of just a few.
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178 LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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183 LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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188 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
189 word processors, see Section
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191 reference "sec:lyxbetter"
194 , which can be found on page
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196 reference "sec:lyxbetter"
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204 Lame attempts to use other LyX stuff
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209 I wrote a program the other day.
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215 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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238 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
246 Typesetting word processor
248 It saves so much time
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258 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
260 \begin_inset Formula $ax^{2}+bx+c=0$
264 \begin_inset Formula $x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^{2}-4ac}}{2a}$
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273 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus:
274 \begin_inset Formula $f'(x)\equiv \lim _{\Delta x\rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}$
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288 A couple notes about LyXifiying this file:
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293 I was able to remove the lines made with dashes.
294 They were there purely to separate the title and references from the rest
296 LyX (LaTeX) knows enough to separate these parts of the document with space.
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301 I didn't bother putting the math equations in display mode.
302 Also, I didn't use LyX' automatic equation numbering, because it's not
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314 I didn't have to type the word
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323 LyX automatically writes it (or the word
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331 depending on the textclass) when you select
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352 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
355 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.