Lyx user's guide
"Lyx" is a free word processor that uses latex as the typesetting engine. You get a nice user interface (ie: you don't have to deal with latex commands!) but you have all the underlaying power of the tex typesetting language. For example, it does mathematic formula layouts...

To start lyx just type "lyx" in a terminal. The program has a built in help system with the complete user's guide and so on. The first time you run it it will create a ".lyx" directory in your home directory to store personal configuration information.

Reference Materials
Some pointers to useful resources on the Web:

LyX Home Page

the official home of LyX

Installation links

"lyx" needs the following packages:

xpm package

XPixMap (XPM) consists of an ASCII image format and a C library. The format defines how to store color images (X Pixmap) in a portable and powerful way. The library provides a set of functions to store and retrieve images to and from XPM format data, being either files, buffers (files in memory), or data (included files).

xforms

XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, scrollbars, and menus etc. integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications. The ftp site where you can get binaries from.

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