#This file was created by <lasgoutt> Fri Dec 10 15:51:46 1999
#LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team
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THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT 
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by Fee LyX
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June 12, 1972
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Table of Contents
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1.
 Basic Philosophy..................1
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1.1 How LyX Does It...............1
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1.2 Why LyX is Better...............1
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2.
 Features of LyX
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3.
 Lame Attempts to use more LyX stuff
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4.
 Math Stuff
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1.
 Basic Philosophy
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The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content of
 what you're writing and not the form.
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1.1 How LyX does it
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LyX uses LaTeX, a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport
 in 1985.
 It, in turn, was built up from a typesetting language called TeX, created
 by Donald Knuth in 1984.
 LaTeX is designed around a philosophy similar to that of LyX.
 Leslie Lamport once said (see reference [1])
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:
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The function of typographic design is to help the reader understand the
 author's ideas.
 For a document to be easy to read, its visual structure must reflect its
 logical structure.
 Quotations and computer programs, being logically distinct structural elements,
 should be distinguished visually from one another....
 Since LaTeX can't understand your prose, you must explicitly indicate the
 logical structure by typing special commands....
 As you are writing your document, you should be concerned with its logical
 structure, not its visual appearance.
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1.2 Why LyX is better
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LyX can be useful to more people than LaTeX.
 It's considerably easier to learn, because you don't need to learn LaTeX
 (which is practically a programming language).
 LyX is basically like other 
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What you see is what you get
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 word processors, except that LyX is 
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What you see is what you mean
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.
 In this way, it combines the ease of use of word processors with the power
 of LaTeX.
 This is a Good Thing.
 Also, the file format is platform independent.
 Best of all, it's FREE!
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2.
 Features of LyX
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LyX has many features which make writing documents easier.
 (After all, why else would you want to use it?
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) I'm VERY EXCITED
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 to talk about them.
 Here's a list of just a few.
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* LyX worries about margins, and footnote numbering for you
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* LyX makes it simple to write and edit mathematical formulae
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For a more philosophical discussion of why LyX is better than lots of other
 word processors, see Section 1.2, which can be found on page 1.
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3.
 Lame attempts to use other LyX stuff
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I wrote a program the other day.
 It looked like this.
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5 REMARK MY AWESOME PROGRAM
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10 PRINT 
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I'M AWESOME!
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20 GOTO 10 
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After all that scientific thinking, I started feeling more artistic, so
 I wrote this haiku
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LyX is really great
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Typesetting word processor
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It saves so much time 
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4.
 Math Stuff
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My favorite equation is the solution to a quadratic equation.
 If ax^2+bx+c=0 (eq.1), then x= -b + or minus the square root of b^2-4ac
 all divided by 2a (eq.
 2).
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Another favorite equation is the basis of calculus: f'(x) is defined as
 the limit as deltax goes to zero of f(x+deltax) - f(x) divided by deltax
 (eq.
 3).
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REFERENCES
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[1] Lamport, Leslie.
 LaTeX: A Document Preparation System.
 Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, second edition, 1994.
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