Latex environment for linux
Richard E Miles
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Wed Mar 9 00:00:08 UTC 2005
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:51:59 -0300
Leandro Melo <ltcmelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> Could anyone tell me if there's a nice latex environment for linux?
> Or do I need to use default text editors and compile text manually?
> Thanks.
>
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There is a program called lyx that will allow you to create files which use
LaTex. From the man page:
NAME
lyx - A Document Processor
SYNOPSIS
lyx [ command-line switches ] [ name[.lyx] ... ]
DESCRIPTION
LyX is too complex to be described completely in the "man" page for-
mat. If your system is properly configured, you can access the full
documentation within LyX under the Help menu.
LyX is a document preparation system. It excels at letting you create
complex technical and scientific articles with mathematics, cross-ref-
erences, bibliographies, indices, etc. It is very good at documents of
any length in which the usual processing abilities are required: auto-
matic sectioning and pagination, spellchecking, and so forth. It can
also be used to write a letter to your mom, though granted, there are
probably simpler programs available for that. It is definitely not the
best tool for creating banners, flyers, or advertisements, though with
some effort all these can be done, too. Some examples of what it is
used for: memos, letters, dissertations and theses, lecture notes,
seminar notebooks, conference proceedings, software documentation,
books (on PostgreSQL, remote sensing, cryptology, fictional novels,
poetry, and even a children___s book or two), articles in refereed sci-
entific journals, scripts for plays and movies, business proposals...
you get the idea.
Currently, LyX uses either the XForms or Qt library as a toolkit. LyX
should run everywhere, where these libraries run. This is on all
major Unix platforms as well as Windows, Mac OS X (which actually is a
unix platform) and OS/2.
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