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LyX vs TeXmacs

A side-by-side look at LyX and TeXmacs. 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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TeXmacs

TeXmacs

Office & Productivity

TeXmacs is a free open-source scientific word processor and typesetting system. It uses LaTeX and TeX formatting while providing a user-friendly WYSIWYG editor. TeXmacs is cross-platform and supports mathematical formulas, graphs, images, multilingual text, indexes, bibliographies and many other features.

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