You can edit documents in LyX without having LaTeX installed, but you will
not to able to create PDFs or print your documents unless you do have it
installed.
- Actually, that is not quite true.
- Some LyX documents use DocBook as the `backend' that produces PDFs and
- the like, and any LyX document can be output as plain text or as XHTML.
- Still, most of the documents people edit in LyX use LaTeX as the backend,
- and so exporting these documents to PDF, or printing them, requires you
- to have LaTeX properly installed.
+ However, some LyX documents use DocBook as the `backend' that can produce
+ PDFs and the like, and every LyX document can always be output as plain
+ text or as XHTML.
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-Moreover, specific document classes may depend upon specific LaTeX or DocBook
- classes or packages.
- Again, such document classes can be used even if you do not have the required
+Some document classes may depend upon specific LaTeX or DocBook classes
+ or packages.
+ Such document classes can be used even if you do not have the required
files installed, but you will not be able to produce certain kinds of output.
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