Aspell,   Cygwin,   DocBook,   GBib,   Ghostscript,   GSview,   ImageMagick,   IrfanView,   MikTeX,   MiKTeX,   Noweb,   PDFCreator,   ProTeXt,   R,   S,   SGML,   SourceForge,   Sweave,   TestGlossaryItem,   TeX,   TeXLive,   TeXLive2005,   Tgif,   TTFonts,   WYSIWYM,  

Aspell From Aspell (edit)

Aspell is a spellchecker.

Homepages:
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
http://aspell.net/win32/
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12973
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6

Program

Cygwin From Cygwin (edit)

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It provides Windows ports of many of the popular GNU software tools, including the BASH shell. See www.cygwin.com.

See LyX on Cygwin for more details on using LyX with Cygwin.

DocBook From DocBook (edit)

DocBook is a comprehensive - if slightly bloated - file format. There are SGML and XML variants of the DocBook format. DocBook documents can be transformed into a wide variety of printed and electronic formats. Also see DocBook.

Categories

• DocBook

GBib From GBib (edit)

gBib, the Gnome BibTeX editor, is a user-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases. You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BibTeX databases.

Ghostscript From Ghostscript (edit)

Ghostscript is a Postscript and PDF renderer. It is needed by LyX to handle and view PDF and EPS-images.

Homepage: http://ghostscript.com/

Program

GSview From GSview (edit)

GSview is a Postscript and PDF viewer.

Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

Program to read/view files in Postscript (.ps), encapsulated Postscript (.eps) and portable document format (.pdf).

Program

ImageMagick From ImageMagick (edit)

ImageMagick is a command-line image manipulation and conversion program. It is needed by LyX to convert images to LaTeX-readable formats.

Homepage: http://imagemagick.org/

ImageMagick book : http://www.packtpub.com/imagemagick/book/

Program

IrfanView From IrfanView (edit)

IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) is an excellent freeware file viewer that handles most media formats used on the Internet. It includes batch conversion capabilities.

MikTeX From MikTeX (edit)

(:redirect MiKTeX:)

MiKTeX From MiKTeX (edit)

MiKTeX is a LaTeX-distribution for Windows.
It is recommended to use this distribution together with LyX on Windows.

Homepage: http://www.miktex.org

Program

Noweb From Noweb (edit)

Noweb is a tool for Literate Programming.

Website: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb/

PDFCreator From PDFCreator (edit)

PDFCreator is an open-source Win32 printer driver that produces PDF files as output. Its home page is http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm, and its project page at SourceForge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/.

ProTeXt From ProTeXt (edit)

ProTeXt is a LaTeX-distribution for Windows based on MiKTeX. It is part of the TeXLive-DVD 2005.

Homepage: http://www.tug.org/protext

Windows,MikTeX

R From R (edit)

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a free implementation of the S programming language.

Website: http://www.r-project.org

S From S (edit)

S is a statistical programming language.

Website of the company that sells S+: http://www.insightful.com/

R is a free (open-source) implementation.

Uncategorized

SGML From SGML (edit)

SGML

(Standard Generalized Markup Language) The superset of all the markup languages, SGML is a generalized schema for tagging structure data in an application-independent way. A markup language defined using SGML has a specific vocabulary (labels for elements and attributes) and a declared syntax (grammar defining the hierarchy and other features). Prominent SGML vocabularies are DocBook and TEI.

SourceForge From SourceForge (edit)

SourceForge.net is the host site to thousands of open-source software projects.

Sweave From Sweave (edit)

Sweave provides a flexible framework for mixing text and S-code for automatic document generation. A single source file contains both documentation text and S code, which are then woven into a final document containing

• the documentation text together with
• the S code and/or
• the output of the code (text, graphs)

by running the S code through an S engine like R.

See LyxWithRThroughSweave for use of Sweave in LyX.

For more information consult Sweave's webpage(approve sites).

Uncategorized

TestGlossaryItem From TestGlossaryItem (edit)

Just a test item... will be removed.

TeX From TeX (edit)

Typesetting engine, see LaTeX?.

TeX_CTAN website

LyX serves as the front-end for this typesetting engine, often with Latex.

Also see What is LaTeX and the wiki group about LaTeX.

TeXLive From TeXLive (edit)

TeXLive is a modern and comprehensive TeX distribution that can be installed or run as "live" version from CD/DVD.
It is not recommended to use this distribution together with LyXWinInstaller.

Note: I can report at least one way to successfully install LyX with TexLive 2007 as a backend. Here TeXLive is run Live, as opposed to installed.

• Download the TexLive DVD .iso image
• Download the Daemon tools
• Mount the downloaded image on drive Z:\, for example
• Use the GUI menus to set the environment as required by TeX

At this point you have a running "live" TeX distribution on your machine.

• Download the small LyXWinInstaller from the project page
• Run the executable
• When asked about the latex.exe location, find it, for example, on the Z:\ drive
• Proceed with the installation

At this point you have set up LyX with TeXLive running "live" as a backend. One major reason for my wanting to go through all this is that TeXLive contains the high-quality cm-super (Computer Modern - super) font that enables the use of Bold Small Caps (old cm and lm - latin modern - don't offer this).

Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive/ Uncategorized

TeXLive2005 From TeXLive2005 (edit)

TeXLive2005 website

One can find general information about the Protext DVD, or the Win32 Latex that comes with the Texlive CD.

Tgif From Tgif (edit)

Tgif is an interactive drawing.

Tgif is an interactive drawing. tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects in the X Window system. It is "similar" to the xfig program but has a seemingly unusual user interface that may somewhat puzzle beginners. Tgif can also be used on Windows but you need to install Cygwin.

Links:

• http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif

Also see:

• Tips.UsingLyXWithTgif

TTFonts From TTFonts (edit)

True Type Fonts. Scaleable computer fonts based on mathematical curves (square B-splines).

WYSIWYM From WYSIWYM (edit)

What You See Is What You Mean

From LyX.AboutLyX:

What is LyX?

LyX is a WYSIWYM (WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouMean) DocumentProcessor. Its homepage is at http://www.lyx.org/ and you can probably get a much better description of what it is there.

The basic idea of LyX is that you do not need to handle style, or actually, you use a set of predefined styles and concentrate on your document content, This makes sure that your resulting document will be typographically correct and good looking visually. You can of course apply various style changes and order LyX to do things differently, but you only need to do it once for each option and the same style will be used throughout the document, making sure that your document is consistent in its look (we are still working on the AI to make sure the document is consistent in the content too :-) ).

LyX uses LaTeX as its backend typesetting mechanism. LaTeX is a very powerful system that gives great results. By using LaTeX, LyX can produce Postscript and PDF output. In addition, by using latex2html, you can get HTML output.

LyX can also export to DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.

Just give LyX a try and you'll be hooked, many tried it and prefer it over anything else. It might need some time to get used to (Read: a somewhat steep learning curve), but it is worth the time and effort.