LyX vs MacTeX
A side-by-side look at LyX and MacTeX. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
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.
latexword-processoropen-source
MacTeX
Office & Productivity
MacTeX is a free, open source TeX/LaTeX distribution for macOS based on TeX Live. It includes TeX engines, macro packages, fonts, documentation, and GUI applications like TeXShop.
texlatextypesettingdocument-preparation