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| "LyX, el Procesador de Palabras" - a page in Spanish
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|  | ## LyX distribution LyX is distributed via ftp as a tar.gz archive, both in source and binary formats for different architechtures. Notice that some people are kind enough to prepare RedHat and Debian packages, but those are not officially supported by the LyX Team, and if you experience problems with those, please try the official source distribution as referenced here. If you want to live on the edge, the unstable development versions of LyX are available via CVS. Check out the Developers Only page for information about how to get those. ### Primary Ftp Site Primary LyX site ### Some mirrors fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/LyX/Mirror.ftp.via.ecp.fr Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, France US Mirror (San Diego) Mexico mirror JWG University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany AANet's Mirror Project, Australia ## Other stuff with relevance to LyX LyX is build on other software. Here are links to some of the stuff that makes LyX tick. You'll need to have some of it installed in order to make the full use of LyX. If you use a Linux distribution, such as RedHat or Debian, most of these packages should be available as custom packages for the relevant system, and you might have most of it installed already. Please check before you go download the lot. ### Required stuff The XForms home page - the underlying GUI toolkit. You'll need to get a version for your architechture, if you want to compile your own version of LyX. libXpm - a library used to display pixmaps. If you want to compile LyX yourself, you'll also need libXpm. You'll have to get version 4.7 or newer. Older versions are incompatible with the current XForms library. The teTeX Homepage - a LaTeX distribution. In order to properly use LyX to create documents, you'll need to have a LaTeX installation. teTeX is pretty complete. The NTeX homepage - an alternative LaTeX distribution. This one is not as extensive as teTeX, so you might have to pick up a few more packages by hand compared to teTeX. ### Optional stuff CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Since LyX is based on LaTeX, practically any tool made for use with LaTeX, can be used with LyX. The CTAN is an archive of packages, tools, documentation and much more about LaTeX, and therefor an invaluable resource if you want to become a poweruser of LaTeX (and LyX). If you don't know anything about LaTeX yet, you'll want to wait before exploring CTAN, because it is big and confusing at first. The SGMLtools homepage - needed to use the LinuxDoc DTD. If you want to create documents using the LinuxDOC DTD that is used for the Linux Documentation Project to create documents in a variety of different formats, you'll need to get the SGMLtools. Perl - an interpreted, text-manipulation programming language. If you want to import LaTeX documents into LyX, you'll need to have Perl installed, because the reLyX script that does the conversion is written in Perl. Ghostview - used to preview PostScript files. You'll also need Ghostscript to be able to use Ghostview. gv - an alternative PostScript viewer. gv is a more modern PostScript viewer. It also requires Ghostscript to work kghostview - yet another alternative PostScript viewer for KDE This should also work with LyX as a PostScript viewer, and if you use KDE, you might prefer this one. Internal Ispell - a spellchecker for many languages. LyX can use Ispell as a backend to do spellchecking. You can find dictionaries for many languages and be able to spellcheck documents in your own language. ChkTeX Homepage - performs typographical checking. LyX can use ChkTeX as an aid to find common typograhical errors in your document. gBibTeX - an interactive BibTeX database manager. This GNOME program allows you to manage a BibTeX bibliography database, and then interface it with LyX in a seamless fashion. Freetype related projects - X11 TrueType font servers. By installing one of the servers listed on this page, you will be able to use truetype fonts in the display window of LyX. Notice that you can't use TrueType fonts in the paper output, even with this fine software. You'll prefer the higher quality PostScript fonts on paper anyway, but TrueType is relevant to use on the low-resolution screen. |

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