Talk:LyX

On Portal:Free software, LyX is now the selected article
Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was KHTML. Gronky 09:42, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Things have moved on, as they always do, and the new selectee is Beowulf (computing) - the clustering technology. --Gronky 02:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Is it a TeX editor?
This article is in Category:Free TeX editors. Is that correct, even if you count a LaTeX editor as a TeX editor? The article calls it a front-end to the LaTeX typesetting system, and the screenshots shows LyX editing a file named something.lyx (not .tex). To me, a TeX editor must be able to open (not import) any TeX document, modify and save (not export) that document again. I'm not convinced that is what LyX does. JöG (talk) 16:17, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Lyx is more or less a GUI front-end for TeX . . . you save edits as a .lyx file then compile them to a PS or PDF file . . . in general, you don't directly edit the TeX commands, as it tends to hide all of that from the user. 70.186.172.75 (talk) 22:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

The Lowered Y
It seems the math tagging:
 * $$\mathbf{L}\!{}_\mathbf{\displaystyle Y}\!\mathbf{X}$$

($$\mathbf{L}\!{}_\mathbf{\displaystyle Y}\!\mathbf{X}$$) executes pretty slowly. Why not instead use the simple  tag in standard CSS:
 * L Y X

(L Y X) which requires no processing except by the web browser? Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 08:56, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation
The pronunciation in article have two different definitions. On article head the two (ipa and respelling) the name is said to be pronounced like "leek", but on the pronunciation topic, is said that developers do it like "leeks", don't saying if this is correct or not. As the pronunciation of TeX suffer from the same ambiguity problem, i think this should be solved, or else make the ambiguity explicit on the pronunciation topic, unless of course some better explanation exist for the ambiguity. Flavio.mprado (talk) 02:25, 21 August 2016 (UTC)


 * One is cited, the other is not. The end . LaTeX is the only project whose author has purposefully been evasive about the pronunciation, IIRC. Jankyupeblik (talk) 15:11, 30 August 2016 (UTC)