Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

Gedit Review (Softpedia.com)

I would suggest LyX (www.lyx.org). It's not suitable for people who want
to fiddle with text layout, but for people who just want the text to look
good without any fiddling, it's perfect.

Once upon a time it crashed each time I accidentally used a "dead key",
but it *never* lost a single character I had typed.

Latest version seems supports even version tracking:
http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt