

The user is mostly isolated from the LaTeX code and is not in complete control of it, and for that reason LyX is generally not considered as a proper LaTeX editor. LyX saves a document in its own markup, from which LaTeX code can then be generated.

LyX calls this a What You See Is What You Mean (WYSIWYM) approach, since the screen only shows the structure and an approximation of the output. It contains formula and table editors and shows visual clues of the final document on the screen - which enables users to write LaTeX documents without worrying about the actual syntax. It provides a graphical interface to LaTeX, including several popular packages. LyX is a popular document preparation system for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Dedicated LaTeX editors are more useful than generic plain text editors, because they are usually equipped with the autocomplete feature for commands, spelling and error checking and other handy macros.

Notepad), not a word processor (e.g., Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer). TeX and LaTeX source documents (and its related auxiliary files) are all plain-text files, and can be opened and modified in almost any text editor. You may still have to wipe out the folders if you put untracked files in them. Still, TeX Live provides a more convenient way to do this: Therefore TeX Live can be installed and uninstalled safely by removing the aforementioned folders.

The TeX Live cache is usually stored in the ~/.texliveYYYY folder ( YYYY stands for the year). You need to remove it so that the new packages are taken into account. Note that if you have been using another TeX distribution beforehand, you may still have hyphenation cache stored in you home folder. 14.2.8 Column specification using >įor finnish and sanskrit hyphenation patterns.14.2.6 Other environments inside tables.14.2.3 Manually broken paragraphs in table cells.12.4.6 Devanagari and other Indic scripts.11.5 Degree symbol for temperature and math.9.5.2 Changing fonts in latex and pdflatex.8.5.5 Using color specifications directly.8.4.1 The 68 standard colors known to dvips.8.3 Entering colored background for the text.6.11 Text figures ("old style" numerals).6.10 Text mode superscript and subscript.6.1.3 Sentence-spacing - space between words and sentences.4.5.2 Non-English documents and special characters.3.1.1 Instructions for specific operating systems.
