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LaTexLab vs LyX

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

LaTexLab

LaTexLab

Office & Productivity

LaTexLab is an open-source LaTeX editor that provides real-time preview, auto-completion, spell checking, and other features to make writing LaTeX documents easier. It's free, cross-platform, and lightweight.

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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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