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49 Hint: the title should look more like a title
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105 Basic Philosophy..................1
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109 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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113 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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142 Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more
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151 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
152 what you're writing and not the form.
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160 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
162 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
163 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
164 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
165 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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170 Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be
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175 What if we make Lamport's book the second
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179 item in the bibliography?
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191 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
193 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
195 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
196 should be distinguished visually from one another....
197 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
198 logical structure by typing special commands....
199 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
200 structure, not its visual appearance.
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218 1.2 Why LyX is better
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222 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
223 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
224 (which is practically a programming language).
225 LyX is basically like other
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229 What you see is what you get
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233 word processors, except that LyX is
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237 What you see is what you mean
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242 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
244 This is a Good Thing.
245 Also, the file format is platform independent.
246 Best of all, it's FREE!
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255 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
256 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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261 Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote
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277 Here's a list of just a few.
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281 * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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285 * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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289 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
290 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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295 Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be
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300 What if we change the section numbers?
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314 I wrote a program the other day.
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319 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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349 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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358 Typesetting word processor
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362 It saves so much time
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367 Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry,
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371 otherwise known as VERSE
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386 Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode!
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395 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
396 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
397 all divided by 2a (eq.
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402 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
403 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
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418 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
419 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.