#Lyx el capitan full#
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#Lyx el capitan code#
You can also fiddle directly with the code if you need to, or add code to the front of the document for particular use cases, like a PhD cover page, interlinearized glossed text (IGT) examples, and more. Unlike them, however, you choose the general formatting parameters and let the backend handle the layout. It hides most of the code and offers formatting options, similar to MS Word or other word processors. LyX is, pretty much out of the box, a simple way of interacting with your LaTeX code. This is where a visual editor like LyX comes in.
#Lyx el capitan how to#
But learning how to fiddle with the code is rather time-consuming, so if you're not a hardcore programmer (and I still don't really consider myself one of the hardcore types) there is quite a learning curve. This is pretty brilliant, because it lets you (the writer) worry mostly about the content rather than the format. Then you run a 'compiler' that outputs everything in the correct layout in a PDF. You write the text of what you want, formatting parts of it by using special combinations of characters and commands (or 'tags') that tell a program how to format them. I am fortunate that I have a little background in coding, because LaTeX is essentially a markup language. So I checked it out, and ended up spending the next few months learning how to set it up on my computer and how to use it (I use MacTeX as the backend). And it's free! Which is pretty important to students (if not everyone). But one of them mentioned a program called LaTeX (the funny capitalization is actually part of the name), and that it made typesetting and organization a breeze. So that was out of the question for me, at least at the time (2011 I think more recent versions of MS Office may have fixed some of these issues). Most of them had used MS Word, and told me horror stories of lost work, un-editable documents due to the sheer size of their files, difficulties formatting and printing the thing, etc. In researching how to write my thesis, I asked friends and fellow linguists who had written grammatical descriptions. I now consider the tools I'm writing about here to be essential for a productive workflow, and so this post continues the theme of an earlier post on linguistic tools.
In any case, the relevant information here is the term "large", since I knew I was going to be writing a lot. As a side note, I use the word 'thesis' to refer to any large written work, including a PhD, while other English speakers might use the word 'dissertation' to refer specifically to the work that a PhD student produces. One of the first things I did after passing my PhD confirmation exercise (like a qualifying exam in the USA) was to research the best way to write my thesis.
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