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Latexila vs LyX

A side-by-side look at Latexila and LyX. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Latexila

Latexila

Office & Productivity

Latexila is a LaTeX editor for Linux written in C and gtk+. It provides features like syntax highlighting, document structure tree, integrated PDF viewer, code completion, and project management. It is designed to be a simple but useful LaTeX editor.

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LyX

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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