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diff --git a/office/lyx/README b/office/lyx/README index 580e0a172f..82c91646b8 100644 --- a/office/lyx/README +++ b/office/lyx/README @@ -1,9 +1,23 @@ -LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing -based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is -released under a Free Software / Open Source license. - -LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out -of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, 'finger -painting' font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just -write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX typesetting engine -makes you look good. +LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to +writing based on the structure of your documents, not their +appearance. It is released under a Free Software / Open Source +license. + +LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, +right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting +details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with +page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's +legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good. + +On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output +-- or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- +looks like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland +.docs, all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out +unpredictably different on different printer drivers. Gone are the +crashes 'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press. + +Please note that Lyx 1.5.x will not be available until Slackware ships with +QT4, or until more Lyx frontends are released (at the moment, the only +frontend is for QT 4). + +Thank you |