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LyX

Posted Jun 6, 2025 20:05 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: LyX by parametricpoly
Parent article: The importance of free software to science

That's too bad. I used LyX roughly from the late 90ies to the early 2010s, and I didn't have any issues with crashing (not saying it never crashed, but I don't remember it to be any worse than other complex gui applications like say Firefox). Maybe quality has gone down since then, if so too bad, I really liked it.

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LyX

Posted Jun 6, 2025 22:05 UTC (Fri) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]

I have used, and continue to use, LyX when writing papers for publication [biochemistry/computational biology]. I have never had a problem with it crashing. The biggest problem has been deciding "is it worth the time to write a LyX template to match the LaTeX template this journal will accept for submission?". It has been a pleasant surprise going back 20 years or so how many biology journals are willing to accept submissions in LaTeX, even though it may require bypassing the default final-stage submission process and corresponding directly with the print office rather than the editorial office.