# LyX - The Document Processor

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| includes a Rogue's Gallery of some of the LyX Team members
Matthias Ettrich
| in Germany by the founder of the project (partially obsolete)
Alejandro Aguilar
| "LyX, el Procesador de Palabras" - a page in Spanish
Asger Alstrup
| another one in Danish: "LyX - et tekstbehandlings system til Unix"
Jürgen Vigna
| a LyX page located in Italy
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| located in the southern hemisphere, in Australia to be exact
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|  | ## What is LyX? LyX is a free program that provides a more modern approach of writing documents with a computer. Compared to common word processors, LyX increases productivity, since the job of typesetting is done mostly by the computer, not the author. Technically this is done by combining the comfortable interface of a WYSIWYG word processor with the high quality output of LaTeX, one of the most popular typesetting systems available. No knowledge of LaTeX is required to use LyX. Read more here. ## LyX version 1.0 has been released! As promised, LyX v1.0.0 was released on February 1, 1999. LyX version 1.0 has a few new features since version 0.12.0, including importing LaTeX files. Compared to the more widely released 0.10.7, version 1.0 is an immense improvement. Lots and lots of new features have been added, speed has improved, documentation has been rewritten basically from scratch -- the list of improvements is too long to mention here. Check out the WHATSNEW and CHANGES files in the distribution, or look at the Features page. ## How to get LyX ### Latest Stable Release Here's a link to the latest stable sources at the main LyX site in France: lyx-current.tar.gz. There are also mirrors available. Check the "How to get it" page. Pre-releases (if any) of new stable versions are here. Also, you can get the very latest bugfixes from the LyX developer's site via anonymous CVS. ### Development versions Development releases are not for general use because they are by definition unstable and the probability of losing your work is high. Nevertheless, development releases are useful for a number of other purposes: You can use them to check out what direction LyX is moving in. You can become a beta-tester and find bugs. Or, you can give a hand and write some code to implement your favourite missing feature. The development version can be found on www.devel.lyx.org, as can other information for developers. ## The LyX Graphical Tour New! Our Doc Team has produced an excellent Graphical Tour of LyX, which demonstrates some of the key features of LyX in a graphical way. Check it out! ## What about KLyX? KLyX is a port of LyX version 0.12.0 to KDE done primarily by Matthias Ettrich and Kalle Dalheimer. Read more about this on our LyX vs. KLyX page.

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