LyX Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Is there an alternative to learning Latex for publishing research papers?

  You can use LyX. LyX self-describes as a What You See is What You Mean editor, basically a fully graphical editor for writing LaTeX. Source: 12 months ago

• Math and Science People: How do you write equations / proofs?

  Directly typing LaTeX gets unwieldy for longer and more complicated expressions, so I write those in LyX first and then copy-and-paste the LaTeX code into Obsidian. Source: about 1 year ago

• VSCode vs Texifier (formerly texpad)

  I like LyX. It's not for everyone, but damn it can be effective. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best offline editor/compiler

  An upopular opinion perhaps, but I'm a huge fan of the WYSIWYM editor LyX. Source: over 1 year ago

• Adding custom words to the dictionary LINUX

  I don't think LyX devs will notice your point here, alas. You could consider writing an email to the devs email list found on lyx.org. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where can i hire someone for latex typesetting？

  If it's a LaTeX learning curve that's keeping your speed down, you could try LyX. Source: over 1 year ago

• Bachelor Thesis - LibreOffice vs Word vs LaTeX

  LyX! Seriously, at least give it a look. Read about it for 10 minutes. Know that you can change the background color from that aweful beige. Source: over 1 year ago

• Preferred latex editor?

  It's a bit outside the box, but I'm extremely fond of LyX. Source: about 2 years ago

• Error while opening a simple hello world example

  I‘d report the bug at lyx.org They‘re always fixing bugs. I’ve written two books in Lyx. It works well for me. Source: over 2 years ago

• Why should I use LaTeX?

  A perhaps slightly unpopular opinion, but you can get most of the benefits and very little of the hassle by using the LyX editor. Source: over 2 years ago

• How do y'all make nice tables by hand or do you use a WYSIWYG editor?

  You ven try LyX. Not exactly WYSIWYG, but has a great tables design interface. Source: over 2 years ago

• LaTeX for Course Syllabi?

  For a shortcut, you could take a look at LyX. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Complete Beginner Confused Where To Start

  Im personally a huge fan of LyX, a LaTeX-based word processor that takes care of the actual LaTeX code without you having to touch it (but you can if you want, e.g., if there's a special need). Source: almost 3 years ago

• What LaTeX editor would you suggest?

  It's fringe, but I'll just throw LyX into the mix. Source: almost 3 years ago

• LaTeX for not math-related writing

  But if you want to focus on writing and want to do little to no coding, you can have a look at LyX. Source: about 3 years ago