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LyX vs ScribTeX

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

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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ScribTeX

ScribTeX

Office & Productivity

ScribTeX is a free open source reference management software for LaTeX. It helps organize citations and bibliographies when writing academic papers and articles in LaTeX. ScribTeX allows storing, inserting, and managing reference data.

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