qhwang wrote:Klyx is no longer a part of Mandrake, since development on Klyx stopped some time ago. Klyx was a version of LyX for KDE, but it was rendered unnecessary when the main LyX version moved from the xforms widget set to Qt - recent versions of LyX have a KDE-like look and feel.
Hi There,The Mandrake version is called Klyx, it's probably on your CD's
Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use
it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a
tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone
compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks.
Bests,
QingHua
It's fine if you know Latex pronounced La tech, though klyx gives you some templates, if they don't suit you, then you have to know latex to create your own. Klyx is a publishing tool, kword is a superior word processor with many of the features of klyx, but you don't need to know latex to create your own templates.
The template issue is a little confusing. LaTeX has styles and document classes (it comes with about a dozen of the common ones, like article, book, report etc., and there a loads more you can download). LyX has it's own layout files, which access these and can include extra commands to tweak the original styles if you want (if you go to my home page at www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin you can see an example layout file that I produced). As John said, you really need to know some LaTeX to do anything here. Templates are produced in the normal way be saving an existing document as a template, so to create a template, there must already be a LaTeX style or class and a LyX layout in existence. A GUI-based layout file editor would be great, but the LyX development team are overworked as it is, so I can't see it happening in the near future.
On the positive side, the layout files that come with LyX cover just about all the document classes that come with a standard LaTeX distribution and a few more, so as I said, if you want to produce something fairly normal-looking and aren't worried about the fine details of typesetting, then you don't need to worry about fiddling with LaTeX, and once you get used to it, LyX is much easier to use than a normal word processor - you can forget about most of the formatting stuff and concentrate on writing. I use LyX for nearly all my own writing, and OpenOffice when I need to deal with Word documents.
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