Hand editing mark-up such as HTML in a text editor would be an extreme example of separation of content and formatting. The separation of content and formatting. Where is shines is in the creation of documents such as reports, articles and books. Lyx probably isn’t the tool for every type of writing. The driving concepts behind Lyx’s approach are the separation of content from formatting and structured document creation. In truth, in an article of this length, I wouldn’t even be able to cover most of the new features of 1.5.0, so, I’ll give you an overview of some of the features that I make use of in my day to day use. Lyx is a very powerful program and contains too many features to list here. In this article, I’ll give an overview of Lyx and try to cover some of the new features that have been introduced in 1.5.0.

Other users can, of course, build from source. The development team officially support builds for Linux, MacOSX and Windows. However, on the 21st of Feb 2007, the team released the first beta of 1.5.0. The current stable version of Lyx is the recently released 1.4.4. The creators of Lyx have coined the term WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) to summarise the approach that Lyx takes to document creation. Conceptually, it falls somewhere between a markup editor and a word processor. Lyx is an open source, structured document creation system.

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