Articles tagged “lyx”

When making a document with Lyx (or LaTeX), I often create figures and diagrams in XFig. I know, Xfig's user interface looks and feels very dated. (I tried the Java port JFig, but that one even feels worse to me.) However, the main reason I bite the bullet is that …

For writing with LaTeX I prefer using LyX because it hides the ugliness of LaTeX source code behind a pseudo-WYSIWYG frontend (the developers call it WYSIWYM: what you see is what you mean ). Including mathematical expressions, however, is very LaTeX minded and comfortable: you type LaTeX math constructs (stuff with …