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-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 - A WYSIWYM document processor.
LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
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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