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34 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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40 Hint: the title should look more like a title
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93 of Contents explicitly
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104 Basic Philosophy..................1
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109 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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114 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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149 Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more
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159 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
160 what you're writing and not the form.
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170 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
172 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
173 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
174 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
175 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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181 Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be
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187 What if we make Lamport's book the second
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192 item in the bibliography?
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206 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
208 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
210 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
211 should be distinguished visually from one another....
212 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
213 logical structure by typing special commands....
214 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
215 structure, not its visual appearance.
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235 1.2 Why LyX is better
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240 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
241 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
242 (which is practically a programming language).
243 LyX is basically like other
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247 What you see is what you get
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251 word processors, except that LyX is
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255 What you see is what you mean
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260 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
262 This is a Good Thing.
263 Also, the file format is platform independent.
264 Best of all, it's FREE!
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275 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
276 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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282 Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote
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299 Here's a list of just a few.
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304 * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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309 * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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314 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
315 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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321 Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be
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327 What if we change the section numbers?
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343 I wrote a program the other day.
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349 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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373 Hint: This is computer CODE
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383 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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394 Typesetting word processor
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399 It saves so much time
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405 Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry,
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410 otherwise known as VERSE
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427 Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode!
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437 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
438 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
439 all divided by 2a (eq.
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445 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
446 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
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464 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
465 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.