If you want to create book-quality articles with very little effort, increase your efficiency while working with documents by several orders of magnitude, easily create tables of contents, references or bibliography, this can mean only one thing:

You want to work with LaTeX. And for LaTeX, there's no better frontend than LyX.

Lyx is an extremely powerful document processor, which allows you to create professional looking documents quickly, easily, with no worries about the style and layout.

LyX brings about a fresh air of good looks and usability to the LaTeX world. It is a front-end much like others, however it is far more powerful than any other I have seen and used. Furthermore, the Windows support also exceeds any other package that I know of. Considering that so many people are agonizing themselves trying to create "nice" documents in classic word processors, LyX can be a promising relief from pain and inefficiency.

Last but not the least, installing LyX is a very simple thing, both in Windows and Linux.

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