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35 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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41 Hint: the title should look more like a title
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94 of Contents explicitly
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105 Basic Philosophy..................1
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110 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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115 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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150 Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more
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160 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
161 what you're writing and not the form.
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171 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
173 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
174 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
175 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
176 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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182 Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be
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188 What if we make Lamport's book the second
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193 item in the bibliography?
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207 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
209 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
211 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
212 should be distinguished visually from one another....
213 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
214 logical structure by typing special commands....
215 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
216 structure, not its visual appearance.
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236 1.2 Why LyX is better
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241 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
242 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
243 (which is practically a programming language).
244 LyX is basically like other
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248 What you see is what you get
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252 word processors, except that LyX is
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256 What you see is what you mean
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261 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
263 This is a Good Thing.
264 Also, the file format is platform independent.
265 Best of all, it's FREE!
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276 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
277 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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283 Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote
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300 Here's a list of just a few.
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305 * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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310 * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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315 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
316 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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322 Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be
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328 What if we change the section numbers?
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344 I wrote a program the other day.
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350 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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374 Hint: This is computer CODE
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384 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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395 Typesetting word processor
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400 It saves so much time
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406 Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry,
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411 otherwise known as VERSE
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428 Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode!
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438 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
439 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
440 all divided by 2a (eq.
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446 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
447 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
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465 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
466 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.