- Aspell is still around (but old), and if you need additional dictionaries, you can use the ones from Open Office: TeXSpell.zip (this will download the file from CTAN). TeXSpell is a crude DOS program so it won't work with NT or its relatives) but it works well and it's.
- LaTeX online services like Papeeria, Overleaf, ShareLaTeX, Datazar, and LaTeX base offer the ability to edit, view and download LaTeX files and resulting PDFs. CTAN You can obtain LaTeX from CTAN, which is the primary source of distribution for LaTeX.
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Here you can find links to other software that can be useful when working with LyX.
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- 1. Required Software
- 1.1 Document typesetting
- 1.2 Image conversion
- 1.3 Spell checking and dictionaries
- 2. Optional Software
- 2.1 LaTeX packages
- 2.2 Document viewing
- 2.3 Reference managers
- 2.4 Various Convertors
- 2.5 Typesetting tools
- 2.6 Scripts and add-ons
Note: If you use the installers/packages for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, the required software will be installed automatically.
1. Required Software
- Qt - user interface toolkit
- Qt 4.8 or 5.6 is recommended. You can look here for more details about version dependencies.
- Python - scripting language
- Required for configuration and conversion scripts. Tested with version 2.7. Python 3.0 is work in progress.
1.1 Document typesetting
- (La)TeX distribution
- In order to properly use LyX to create documents, you'll need to have a LaTeX installation. You can use TeXLive or MikTeX on Windows and *nix, or MacTeX on Mac OS.
1.2 Image conversion
- ImageMagick tools
- LyX used ImageMagick to convert your images when no other converter is available. For manipulating with Postscript files you will need Ghostscript too.
1.3 Spell checking and dictionaries
More spellchecking backends are supported:
- Hunspell
- the spell checker used by OpenOffice and Firefox. Dictionaries of OpenOffice can be reused (alternatively they can be grabbed at our mirror repository).
- GNU Aspell
- is a Free and Open Source spell checker supported by LyX. It is said to do a very good job of coming up with possible suggestions. Dictionaries are available here.
- Enchant
- wrapper that provides automatic access to many spell checking libraries (ispell, aspell, hspell, hunspell, etc.).
- Thesaurus and its dictionaries
- LyX ships the MyThes library itself, however, it does not ship any thesaurus dictionaries, and those do have to be installed separately. The OpenOffice thesaurus dictionaries can be reused or again grabbed at our mirror repository).
2. Optional Software
2.1 LaTeX packages
- CTAN - The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.
- Since LyX is based on LaTeX, practically any tool made for use with LaTeX can be used with LyX. The CTAN is an archive of packages, tools, documentation and much more about LaTeX, and therefore an invaluable resource if you want to become a power user of LaTeX (and LyX).
2.2 Document viewing
- Adobe Reader
- The well-known PDF Viewer
- Free PDF Readers
- Free and Open Source alternatives to the Adobe Reader
- GSView or gv
- PostScript viewer, requires Ghostscript to work. Note that once Ghostscript is installed a many convertors from/to Postscript will be installed simultaneously.
2.3 Reference managers
- JabRef
- BibTeX reference manager for all platforms (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux)
- Pybliographer
- BibTeX reference manager for Linux/GNOME
- KBibTeX
- BibTeX reference manager for Linux/KDE
- BibDesk
- BibTeX reference manager for Mac OS X
- Zotero
- Firefox extension; available extension for LyX: Lyz
A more extensive list of reference managers can be found on the LyX wiki.
2.4 Various Convertors
- Metafile to EPS Converter
- For proper conversion of EMF/WMF images on Windows
- Graphviz
- dot -> pdf using Graphviz, which is a FOSS suite for producing large graph/network diagrams.
UnRTF: rtf -> html conversion tool.
html2latex: html -> tex conversion tool.
LaTeX2rtf: tex -> rtf conversion tool.
TTH, HEVEA, LaTeX2HTML: various tex -> html convertors
eLyXer: lyx -> html conversion tool.
TeX4ht: tex -> odt/html convertor.
Writer2LaTeX: odt -> tex convertor.
Grace convertor: agr -> png/jpg/pnm conversion tool.
LilyPond convertor: ly -> eps/png/pdf conversion tool.
PS2EPS: ps -> eps conversion tool.
librsvg, Inkscape: (not only) svg convertors.
Multimarkdown to LyX: Multimarkdown to LyX conversion tool.
2.5 Typesetting tools
- ChkTeX Homepage - performs typographical checking.
- LyX can use ChkTeX as an aid to find common typograhical errors in your document.
- NoWeb - literate programming.
- Use LyX to write programs whose documentation and manuals are included in the program.
- Sweave - literate programming.
- Tool that allows to embed the R code for complete data analyses in latex documents.
- Knitr - literate programming.
- A comprehensive R package derived from Sweave with a different design that includes code formatting, highlighting, caching, fine control of graphics, conditional evaluation, multiple markup formats and other features.
- The SGMLtools homepage - DocBook support.
- If you want to create documents using the LinuxDOC DTD that is used for the Linux Documentation Project to create documents in a variety of different formats, you'll need to get the SGMLtools.
- Dvipost - post-processor for DVI files created by LaTeX and TeX.
- It can be used for special modes that normally need DVI drivers such as dvips. It supports layout raster, change bars, and overstrike mode.
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2.6 Scripts and add-ons
Many useful scripts can be found in LyX Wiki.
LaTeX is free software under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). LaTeX is distributed through CTAN servers or comes as part of many easily installable and usable TeX distributions provided by the TeX User Group (TUG) or third parties. If you run into trouble, visit the help section.
LaTeX is not a stand-alone typesetting program in itself, but document preparation software that runs on top of Donald E. Knuth's TeX typesetting system. TeX distributions usually bundle together all the parts needed for a working TeX system and they generally add to this both configuration and maintenance utilities. Nowadays LaTeX, and many of the packages built on it, form an important component of any major TeX distribution.
- The LaTeX Git Repository
The LaTeX team cannot guarantee that TeX distributions, even recent ones, contain the most recent version of LaTeX. It may happen that you need a more recent LaTeX than the one that your favourite TeX distribution carries, e.g., in order to get a particular bug fix. In that case you will need to fetch LaTeX from CTAN and install it on top of your distribution. See below for details.
TeX Distributions
If you’re new to TeX and LaTeX or just want an easy installation, geta full TeX distribution. The TeX Users Group (TUG) has a list of notable distributionsthat are entirely, or least primarily, free software.
Linux
Check your Linux distributions software source for a TeX distribution including LaTeX. You can also install the current TeX Live distribution directly---in fact this may be advisable as many Linux distributions only contain older versions of TeX Live, see Linux TeX Live package status for details.
Mac OS
The MacTeX distribution contains everything you need, including a complete TeX system with LaTeX itself and editors to write documents.
Windows
Check out the MiKTeX or proTeXt or TeX Live distributions; they contain a complete TeX system with LaTeX itself and editors to write documents.
Online
LaTeX online services like Papeeria, Overleaf, ShareLaTeX, Datazar, and LaTeX base offer the ability to edit, view and download LaTeX files and resulting PDFs.
CTAN
You can obtain LaTeX from CTAN, which is theprimary source of distribution for LaTeX. In order for your downloadedLaTeX to be of any use, you have to obtain and set up a TeX systemfirst. You can either install a TeX distribution (see above) or get aTeX system from CTAN. Ifyou use a TeX distribution then it will include a version of LaTeX sothis will probably make things easier for you; but you may have areason not to do this.
The LaTeX Git Repository
These days the LaTeX development sources are kept in a GitHubrepository (previously we used SVN).
Anyone can access it and download the files, butsubmission is restricted to team members. The repository is located at https://github.com/latex3/latex2eand from that browser page you may explore the files, clone therepository or download the files in a
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archive (roughly 25Mb) byusing the appropriate buttons.If you are familiar with Git you can also clone the repository using thecommand line or your favorite Git fontend tool, e.g.,
which needs about 50Mb of space.Alternatively, you can do a Subversion checkout from the command line, e.g.,
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which will just checkout the current files.But be aware that a SVN checkout of the form
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will download all files including theirhistory (back to 2009) and amounts to roughly 1.4Gb so that is quite large.
Note: If you had bookmarked the old SVN repository please update thatbookmark to the new GIT repository as we have finally removed it.
A note on Git pull requests
Git repositories support distributed development and allow people toprovide change sets that are made available through so called pullrequests, so that the maintainers of a program can “pull the suggestedchanges” into the main repository.
While we appreciate contributions, we think that for the core LaTeXsoftware pull requests are usually not a good approach (unless thechange has be already discussed and agreed upon).The stability of LaTeX is very important and this means that changes tothe kernel are necessarily very conservative. It also means that a lotof discussion has to happen before any changes are made. So if you dodecide to post a pull request, please bear this in mind: we doappreciate ideas, but cannot always integrate them into the kernel andit is quite likely that we reject updates made in this way.
If you want to discuss a possible contribution before (or instead of)making a pull request, we suggest you raise the topic first onthe LATEX-L list or drop aline to the team.
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Historic LaTeX
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Ulrik Vieth has collected historic versions of LaTeX from LaTeX 2.0for TeX 1.0 (released on 11 December 1983) onwards. You can find thematftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/macros/latex-saildart/.There might even be some earlier versions. All files have been pulledfrom the SAILDART archive site at http://z.baumgart.org/ (no longeronline) which was based on archive tapes from SAIL at Stanford.
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More historic material can be found at ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic (you may not be able to open this in all browsers — alternatively try https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/).