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LyX acts as a front-end to LATEX, an advanced typesetting system. Specific knowledge of the LATEX document processing system is not necessary but may improve editing with LyX significantly.
LyX can also export the document to DocBook SGML, thus opening the way to document processing with SGML tools, like Jade, Openjade , pdfTeX and pdfJadeTeX , that make it possible to produce consistently formatted documents in HTMLHyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for creating web pages, that is, information presented on the World Wide Web. Defined as a simple "application" of SGML, which is used by organizations with complex publishing requirements, HT, PDF, PostScriptPostScript (PS is a page description language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. History The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans and Sutherland, a famous computer graph, RTF, TXTTXT is: A computer file extension for text files. These are files stored without any formatting data. The data itself is usually encoded in ASCII but sometimes in a Unicode encoding such as UTF-8 or UTF-16. An abbreviation used by the cellular telephone n and other formats from one LyX source ( single-source publishing ), see Document processing with LyX and SGML.
The LyX document processor is available for various operating systems like several Unix platforms including Mac OS X, OS/2OS/2 is an operating system created by Microsoft and IBM and later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2", because it was intended as the preferred operating system for IBM's " Personal System/2 ( PS/2)" line of second-gene, WindowsImage use policy. Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. The range was first introduced by Microsoft in 1985 and eventually has come to dominate the world personal computer market. All recent versions of/ Cygwin and Linux.
LyX was first published under the name Lyrix, but had to be renamed because of a word processor by SCO of the same name. The name LyX was chosen because the file-suffix for Lyrix-files was already '.lyx'.