{"id":640,"date":"2008-05-16T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2008-05-15T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T02:01:20","slug":"cool-free-tool-lyx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/cool-free-tool-lyx\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Free Tool &#8211; LyX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my customers who is a writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krahesnest.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">krahesnest.com<\/a> asked me if I knew of any tools to help a writer organize their work. She knew that I am a big open source fan and thought that I could help her find something that would be an effective tool for a writer.<\/p>\n<p>I found LyX it&#8217;s a very productive way to write books, articles, reports, slideshows, and other long documents. Word processors are optimized for easy use by untrained people. They excel at that.<\/p>\n<p>LyX is a content authoring tool, LyX is NOT a word processor, and shouldn&#8217;t be used as such. It&#8217;s overkill for a 5 page school paper. It makes fine tuning of pages very difficult, which is not what you want on a flyer or short paper. LyX is not as user friendly as a word processor.<\/p>\n<p>LyX is not easy because it is used to do difficult things, like lay out entire books in a consistent manner. LyX is a great tool which is free and open source.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyx.org\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">Learn About and Try LyX<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my customers who is a writer krahesnest.com asked me if I knew of any tools to help a writer organize their work. She knew that I am a big open source fan and thought that I could help her find something that would be an effective tool for a writer. I found LyX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[21],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}