LyX

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LYX
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Screenshot of LyX 2.3.6 on Linux
Developer(s)The LyX Team
Initial release1995; 27 years ago (1995)
Stable release
2.3.6.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 3 January 2021; 12 months ago (3 January 2021)
Repository
Written inC++, Qt 5[2]
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inMultilingual (23)
TypeDocument processor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewww.lyx.org Edit this at Wikidata

LyX (styled as LYX; pronounced [ˈlɪks]) is an open source, graphical user interface document processor based on the LaTeX typesetting system. Unlike most word processors, which follow the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") paradigm, LyX has a WYSIWYM ("what you see is what you mean") approach, where what shows up on the screen roughly depicts the semantic structure of the page and is only an approximation of the document produced by TeX.

Since LyX relies on the typesetting system of LaTeX without being a full-fledged LaTeX editor itself, it has the power and flexibility of LaTeX, and can handle documents including books, notes, theses, to academic papers, letters, etc. LyX's interface is structured so that while knowledge of the LaTeX markup language is not necessary for basic usage, new LaTeX directives can be added into the document to support more complex features during editing — though not at the level of full control a full-fledged LaTeX editor can afford.[3][4][5]

LyX is popular among technical authors and scientists for its advanced mathematical modes, though it is increasingly used by non-mathematically-oriented scholars as well[6][7] for its bibliographic database integration[3] and its ability to manage multiple files.[3] LyX has also become a popular publishing tool among self-publishers.[8][9]

LyX is available for all major operating systems, including Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, Chrome OS, OS/2 and Haiku. LyX can be redistributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is thus free software.

Features[]

Screenshot of a PDF document created with LyX

LyX is a fully featured document processor.[3] It provides structured document creation and editing, branches for having different versions of the same document, master and child documents, change tracking, support for writing documents in many languages and scripts, spell checking, graphics and table editing. LyX provides automatically numbered headings, titles, and paragraphs, with document outline. It features a powerful mathematical formula editor with point-and-click or keyboard-only interface.

LyX has native support for many document classes and templates available in LaTeX through \documentclass{theclass}. User layouts and modules can be made for those missing. Text is laid out according to standard typographic rules, including ligatures, kerning, indents, spacing, and hyphenation. It provides BibTeX/BibLaTeX citation support, comprehensive cross-referencing and PDF hyperlinks. LyX can import various common text formats.

Documents can be processed in LaTeX, PdfLaTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX typesetting systems or exported to DocBook SGML, XHTML and plain text. Versioning is provided through external control systems like SVN, Git, RCS, and CVS.

LyX supports right-to-left languages like Arabic,[10] Persian,[11] and Hebrew,[12] along with support for bi-directional text. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages are supported as well.

History[]

Matthias Ettrich started developing a shareware program called Lyrix in 1995. It was then announced on Usenet, where it received a great deal of attention in the following years.

Shortly after the initial release, Lyrix was renamed to LyX due to a name clash with a word processor produced by the company Santa Cruz Operation.[13] The name LyX was chosen because of the file-suffix '.lyx' for Lyrix files.[14]

Versions[]

LyX has no set release schedule. Releases occur when there are important bug fixes or significant improvements. The following table lists the dates of all major releases (without taking into account betas, partial candidates or fixes, or architecture-specific binaries releases.).[15] For collaboration between different users using the same major release is recommended as LyX file format remains fixed within each major release (e.g. all minor LyX versions 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, ... use strictly the same file format).

Version Release date
0.7.0 24 October 1995
1.0.0 1 February 1999
1.0.3 2 June 1999
1.0.4 29 September 1999
1.1.2 3 November 1999
1.1.3 1 December 1999
1.1.4 5 February 2000
1.1.5 6 June 2000
1.1.6 12 June 2001
1.2.0 29 May 2002
1.2.1 23 August 2002
1.2.2 17 December 2002
1.2.3 10 January 2003
1.3.0 7 February 2003
1.3.1 18 March 2003
1.3.2 6 May 2003
1.3.3 25 September 2003
1.3.4 19 February 2004
1.3.5 6 October 2004
1.3.6 16 July 2005
1.3.7 17 January 2006
1.4.0 8 March 2006
1.4.1 11 April 2006
1.4.2 12 July 2006
1.4.3 21 September 2006
1.4.4 14 February 2007
1.4.5.1 27 July 2007
1.5.0 27 July 2007
1.5.1 4 August 2007
1.5.2 8 October 2007
1.5.3 16 December 2007
1.5.4 24 February 2008
1.5.5 11 May 2008
1.5.6 28 July 2008
1.5.7 14 November 2008
1.6.0 10 November 2008
1.6.1 13 December 2008
1.6.2 15 March 2009
1.6.3 4 June 2009
1.6.4 24 August 2009
1.6.4.1 4 September 2009
1.6.4.2 16 November 2009
Version Release date
1.6.5 7 December 2009
1.6.6 20 May 2010
1.6.6.1 29 May 2010
1.6.7 15 July 2010
1.6.8 15 November 2010
1.6.9 7 February 2011
1.6.10 9 May 2011
2.0.0 8 May 2011
2.0.1 5 September 2011
2.0.2 30 November 2011
2.0.3 1 March 2012
2.0.4 2 July 2012
2.0.5 11 November 2012
2.0.5.1 8 January 2013
2.0.6 9 May 2013
2.0.7 24 January 2014
2.0.7.1 1 February 2014
2.0.8.1 16 June 2014
2.1.0 25 April 2014
2.1.1 15 July 2014
2.1.2 26 September 2014
2.1.2.1 30 October 2014
2.1.2.2 17 November 2014
2.1.3 10 February 2015
2.1.4 30 July 2015
2.1.5 20 June 2016
2.2.0 27 May 2016
2.2.1 25 July 2016
2.2.2 15 October 2016
2.2.3 15 May 2017
2.2.4 28 March 2018
2.3.0 16 March 2018
2.3.1 16 September 2018
2.3.2 14 December 2018
2.3.3 25 June 2019
2.3.4 31 January 2020
2.3.4.2 12 February 2020
2.3.5 7 June 2020
2.3.5.2 30 June 2020
2.3.6 1 December 2020
2.3.6.1 3 January 2021

Pronunciation[]

According to the project's wiki, the developers pronounce LyX as [ˈlɪks], like the English word "licks", or [ˈlʏks].[16]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.lyx.org/News#item1.
  2. ^ "LyX wiki | LyX / New in LyX 2.2". wiki.lyx.org.
  3. ^ a b c d "LyX | Features". www.lyx.org. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Is LyX an editor which should be recommended?". TeX - LaTeX Meta Stack Exchange. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  5. ^ "editors - What are the benefits and drawbacks of Lyx compared to TeXnicCenter". TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  6. ^ "LyX wiki | LyX / Using LyX for Linguistic Papers". wiki.lyx.org.
  7. ^ "LyX wiki | LyX / HumanitiesLyX". wiki.lyx.org.
  8. ^ "LyX and Lulu | Linux Journal". www.linuxjournal.com.
  9. ^ "LyX wiki | LyX / ProducedPublications". wiki.lyx.org.
  10. ^ "LyX wiki | Windows / Arabic". wiki.lyx.org.
  11. ^ "LyX wiki | Windows / Farsi". wiki.lyx.org.
  12. ^ "LyX wiki | Windows / Hebrew". wiki.lyx.org.
  13. ^ "WANTED: Name for Wordprocessor (comp.os.linux.development.apps)". Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  14. ^ "LyX Archaeology::Xforms timeline". www.lyx.org.
  15. ^ "LyX news and releases". Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  16. ^ FAQ/Pronunciation, LyX Wiki. Retrieved 4 April 2008.

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