Authorea vs LyX
A side-by-side look at Authorea and LyX. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Authorea
Online Services
Authorea is a collaborative online editor for academic manuscripts and publications. It allows researchers to write, edit, discuss, share, and publish academic documents together in real-time. The platform supports LaTeX editing, version control, and DOI assignment.
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LyX
Office & Productivity
LyX is an open source document processor that emphasizes visual layout and structure of documents over stylistic markup. It uses LaTeX behind the scenes to render documents to PDF or other formats. LyX is aimed at authors not familiar with LaTeX.
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