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42 THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
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48 Hint: the title should look more like a title
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112 Basic Philosophy..................1
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117 1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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122 1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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157 Hint: Section titles should probably stand out more
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167 The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
168 what you're writing and not the form.
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178 LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
180 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
181 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
182 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
183 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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189 Hint: Probably, this CITATION REFERENCE shouldn't be
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195 What if we make Lamport's book the second
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200 item in the bibliography?
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214 The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
216 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
218 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
219 should be distinguished visually from one another....
220 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
221 logical structure by typing special commands....
222 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
223 structure, not its visual appearance.
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243 1.2 Why LyX is better
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248 LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
249 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
250 (which is practically a programming language).
251 LyX is basically like other
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255 What you see is what you get
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259 word processors, except that LyX is
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263 What you see is what you mean
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268 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
270 This is a Good Thing.
271 Also, the file format is platform independent.
272 Best of all, it's FREE!
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283 LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
284 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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290 Hint: This parenthetical statement would look better in a footnote
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307 Here's a list of just a few.
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312 * LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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317 * LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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322 For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
323 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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329 Hint: Probably, these CROSS-REFERENCES shouldn't be
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335 What if we change the section numbers?
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351 I wrote a program the other day.
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357 5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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391 After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
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402 Typesetting word processor
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407 It saves so much time
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413 Hint: It's not very good, but it is poetry,
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418 otherwise known as VERSE
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435 Hint: these math things should be printed in math mode!
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445 My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
446 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
447 all divided by 2a (eq.
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453 Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
454 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
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472 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
473 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.