-LyX is a document preparation system.
- It excels at letting you create complex technical and scientific articles
- with mathematics, cross-references, bibliographies, indices, etc.
- It is very good at documents of any length in which the usual processing
- abilities are required: automatic sectioning and pagination, spellchecking,
- and so forth.
- It can also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted, there
- are probably simpler programs available for that.
- It is definitely not the best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertiseme
-nts (we'll explain why later), though with some effort all these can be
- done, too.
- Some examples of what it is used for: memos, letters, dissertations and
- theses, lecture notes, seminar notebooks, conference proceedings, software
- documentation, books, articles in refereed scientific journals, scripts
- for plays and movies, business proposals, presentations \SpecialChar \ldots{}
+\SpecialChar LyX
+ is a document preparation system.
+ It excels at letting you create complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics,
+ cross-references,
+ bibliographies,
+ indexes,
+ etc.
+ It is very good for working with documents of any length in which the usual processing abilities are required:
+ automatic sectioning and pagination,
+ spell checking and so forth.
+ It can also be used to write a letter to your mom,
+ though granted,
+ there are probably simpler programs available for that.
+ It is definitely not the best tool for creating banners,
+ flyers,
+ or advertisements (we'll explain why later),
+ though with some effort all these can be done,
+ too.
+ Here are some examples of what it is used for:
+ memos,
+ letters,
+ dissertations and theses,
+ lecture notes,
+ seminar notebooks,
+ conference proceedings,
+ software documentation,
+ books,
+ articles in refereed scientific journals,
+ scripts for plays and movies,
+ business proposals,
+ presentations \SpecialChar ldots