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46 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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59 LatexCommand tableofcontents
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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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80 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
82 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
83 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
84 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
85 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference
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96 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
98 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
100 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
101 should be distinguished visually from one another....
102 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
103 logical structure by typing special commands....
104 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
105 structure, not its visual appearance.
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119 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
120 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
121 (which is practically a programming language).
122 LyX is basically like other
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126 What you see is what you get
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130 word processors, except that LyX is
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134 What you see is what you mean
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139 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
141 This is a Good Thing.
142 Also, the file format is platform independent.
143 Best of all, it's FREE!
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151 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
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156 After all, why else would you want to use it?
166 Here's a list of just a few.
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170 LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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174 LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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178 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
179 word processors, see Section
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182 reference "sec:lyxbetter"
186 , which can be found on page
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189 reference "sec:lyxbetter"
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197 Lame attempts to use other LyX stuff
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201 I wrote a program the other day.
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206 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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226 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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235 Typesetting word processor
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239 It saves so much time
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247 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
249 \begin_inset Formula $ax^{2}+bx+c=0$
253 \begin_inset Formula $x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^{2}-4ac}}{2a}$
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261 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus:
262 \begin_inset Formula $f'(x)\equiv\lim_{\Delta x\rightarrow0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}$
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274 A couple notes about LyXifiying this file:
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278 I was able to remove the lines made with dashes.
279 They were there purely to separate the title and references from the rest
281 LyX (LaTeX) knows enough to separate these parts of the document with space.
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285 I didn't bother putting the math equations in display mode.
286 Also, I didn't use LyX' automatic equation numbering, because it's not
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295 I didn't have to type the word
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304 LyX automatically writes it (or the word
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312 depending on the textclass) when you select
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329 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
332 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.