From:	 Allan Rae <rae@csee.uq.edu.au>
To:	 Linux Weekly News <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Sponsorship for the 5th LyX Developers Meeting
Date:	 Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:32:28 +1000 (EST)

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Sponsorship for the 5th LyX Developers Meeting

The LyX team is happy to announce the sponsorship of the next LyX
Developers Meeting (to be hold in Bozen in northern Italy between the
21st and the 26th of June) by the CCP2000 Organizing Committee.
CCP2000 is a conference on Computational Physics, which took place in
December 2000 in Australia.

In their own words: "This is a small gesture, to give some
recognition to the excellent work that the LyX team has carried out in
their efforts to provide a useful and free document preparation tool
to the world.

Since many physicists have found [LyX] valuable - and more will
in the future - it is only reasonable that we can try to help you get
together to improve LyX. It is also a way to say thanks to Allan Rae."

Allan Rae is one of the LyX developers. He gave a talk about LyX during
CCP2000, furthering the recognition LyX already has in the scientific world
for document preparation.

The LyX Team thanks the CCP2000 Organizing Committee for their kind
support. At the meeting, we will be working on LaTeX import/export as
per their request.

LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many
Unix platforms and OS/2, and experimentally under Windows/Cygwin.
Unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you
concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software.

LyX produces high quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an industrial
strength typesetting engine, in the background; LyX is far more than a
front-end to LaTeX, however.  No knowledge of LaTeX is necessary to use LyX,
although it will give a user more power.

LyX is stable and fully featured. It has been used for documents as large
as a thesis, or as small as a business letter. Despite its simple GUI
interface (available in many languages), it supports tables, figures, and
hyperlinked cross-references, and has a best-of-breed math editor.

Learn more about LyX at http://www.lyx.org/