

* Different textclasses allow you to type letters, articles, books, movie scripts, LinuxDoc, slides, presentations. * Standard word processor operations, like cut/paste, multiple open documents, undo/redo, spellchecking (uses aspell or hunspell in the background), thesaurus and revision tracking * Advanced features for labels, references, index and bibliography (including advanced BibTeX support) * Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, Octave, Mathematica * Equation arrays, equation numbering, theorems, customizable math macros, matrices, algorithms, and much more. * Copy/paste to and from LaTeX source code. Formulas are immediately visually rendered on screen. * Equations can be entered via point-and-click interface or via keyboard with LaTeX commands (optionally via auto-completion). * Mathematical formula editor which is easily best of breed. Here are some of the features, classified by category. LyX is a fully featured document processor.
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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. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor its printed output - or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced - looks like nothing else. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries.

LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. 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. LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. 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).
