GitHub Flavored Markdown vs LyX
A side-by-side look at GitHub Flavored Markdown and LyX. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
GitHub Flavored Markdown
Development
GitHub Flavored Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format text on GitHub. It builds upon standard Markdown by adding some additional elements like tables, syntax highlighting, emoji support, and more.
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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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