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46 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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51 Hint: the title should look more like a title
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97 of Contents explicitly
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107 Basic Philosophy..................1
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111 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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115 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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144 Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more
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153 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
154 what you're writing and not the form.
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162 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
164 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
165 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
166 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
167 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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172 Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be
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177 What if we make Lamport's book the second
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181 item in the bibliography?
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193 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
195 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
197 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
198 should be distinguished visually from one another....
199 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
200 logical structure by typing special commands....
201 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
202 structure, not its visual appearance.
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211 Hint: This is a QUOTE
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220 1.2 Why LyX is better
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224 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
225 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
226 (which is practically a programming language).
227 LyX is basically like other
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231 What you see is what you get
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235 word processors, except that LyX is
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239 What you see is what you mean
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244 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
246 This is a Good Thing.
247 Also, the file format is platform independent.
248 Best of all, it's FREE!
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257 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
258 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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263 Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote
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279 Here's a list of just a few.
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283 * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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287 * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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291 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
292 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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297 Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be
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302 What if we change the section numbers?
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316 I wrote a program the other day.
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321 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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342 Hint: This is computer CODE
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351 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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360 Typesetting word processor
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364 It saves so much time
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369 Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry,
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373 otherwise known as VERSE
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388 Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode!
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397 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
398 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
399 all divided by 2a (eq.
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404 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
405 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
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420 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
421 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.