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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM), and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.

LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output — or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced — looks like nothing else.

LyX is released under a Free Software / Open Source license, runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X, and is available in several languages.

wow! das ist ja cool. wusste ich gar nicht. hab mal 3 tage versucht lyx aufzusetzen und dann entnervt aufgegeben, aber das läuft ja quasi "out of the box"!

Hi,

für LaTeX unter Windows gibt's ja auch das TeXnicCenter (hier im Board erwähnt). Hat das schon mal jemand ausprobiert? Eventuell sogar verglichen mit LyX? Erfahrungsberichte? Denke, daß ich mich so langsam auch mal mit LaTeX beschäftigen sollte...

MfG
chriz

Danke! Das erklärt einiges...

Wie gut funktioniert denn das WYSIWYG? Das ist ja immer so eine Sache für sich.

MfG
chriz

Linux und LyX / TeX sind unterschiedliche Sachen ...
Wer nur seine Geburtstagseinladungen schreiben will, ist mit Office und
Consorten weitaus besser bedient. TeX ist - wie sicherlich schon erwähnt -
ein Satzsystem, da geht es um (manchmal entscheidende) Kleinigkeiten
in der Druckdarstellung. Aber wer nicht auf korrekten Formelsatz etc.
angewiesen ist, kann sich die Einarbeitungszeit IMHO sparen ...

Instant preview is a feature that renders math formulae inside the LyX screen using LaTeX. These are generated on the fly so you can see how they’ll look in the final document without having to break your train of thought with View→DVI.

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

You can download LyX 1.6.0 from the Download section.

LyX 1.6.0 is the culmination of 15 months of hard work and you can find an overview of the new features here.

We hope you will enjoy the result!

Known issues with LyX 1.6 compared to the previous stable release (LyX 1.5.6) can be found in the wiki Release Notes.

If you think you found a bug in LyX 1.6.0, either e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug report at LyX's bugzilla.

If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the documentation that comes with lyx and is updated in the wiki. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).

The LyX team.

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.1. This is the first maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and as such, it mainly focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major problems that slipped into the application in the wake of the new features.

All users of LyX 1.6.0 are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

New Maintenance Release: LyX 1.6.2 released.
Mar 15, 2009

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.2. This is the second maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. The release fixes a large number of major and critical bugs that were reported by users of LyX 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Most notably, three bugs that might lead to dataloss were detected and resolved. Furthermore, a number of crashes, file conversion and LaTeX output problems are fixed. As a bonus, the performance of the application has been improved, and the release also introduces some new features and user interface improvements.

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.3. This is the third maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Besides the usual improvements of stability, the highlights of this release are:

* tex2lyx is now able to read files in all latex supported encodings and transform them into the proper unicode-based format introduced in 1.5.0. This paves the way for many other improvements in LaTeX->LyX translation.
* The performance problems when editing a master with child documents have been resolved.
* LyX 1.6.3 introduces some goodies provided by Qt 4.5 (menu support for fullscreen mode in linux, close button on tabs). Of course these improvements (as well as some Qt-related fixes) only show up if LyX is compiled against Qt 4.5.

All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

(...) The release comes with many fixes and improvements. A number of newly reported crashes were fixed, new layouts and modules were included and some long-standing requests were implemented (e.g., a working LyX server on the Windows OS, finally enabling the communication with other applications such as JabRef on this platform as well). (...)