 
	KLyX - The KDE Document Processor

	What is KLyX?
	    
	      KLyX is a modern approach of writing documents with a computer
              which breaks with the tradition of the obsolete typewriter
              concept.  It is designed for people who want a professional
              output with a minimum of time effort, without becoming
              specialists in typesetting.  Compared to common word processors
              KLyX will increase the productivity a lot, since most of the
              typesetting will be done by the computer, not the author.  With
              KLyX the author can concentrate on the contents of his writing,
	      since the computer will take care of the look.
	    
	      KLyX uses the professional typesetting system LaTeX as backend.
              This means that it is very suitable for scientific work and
              guarantees first class output in a quality only known from books.
              In fact KLyX includes the best available formula editor used by
              thousands of mathematicians all over the world. The formula
              editor is seamlessly integrated and allows editing of equations
	      inside the document. KLyX is also highly optimized and much
              faster than usual wordprocessors. It is also able to handle
              documents with several hundred pages, lots of pictures, tables
              and formulas included without becoming slow or instable. But of
              course you can also use this incredible and powerful tool for
              something trivial like writing a simple letter ;-)
	    
	      You can read more about this concept in the documentation,
	      which you'll find under the Help menu.  If you plan to use KLyX, 
	      you actually should read about it to be able to make the best
	      of it.

	What is KLyX not?
	    
	      KLyX is not just another word processor that claims to be a
	      Desktop Publishing program.  It's a more modern way of
	      creating documents that look much nicer, but without wasting 
	      time with layout-fiddling.  For these reasons you might need 
	      little time to get used to the differences.
	      If you are looking for a free Desktop Publishing program for
	      Unix, you will be disappointed.
	 
	Quick: I wanna see some Screenshots!

	      Point your browser to http://www.devel.lyx.org/~ettrich/klyx.html
	      You will also find current informations about KLyX and its
	      development there.
	    
	What do I need to run KLyX?
	    
	      A Unix-like system with the KDE Desktop Environment (see
	      http://www.kde.org/) installed. A decent LaTeX2e installation
              (e.g. teTeX or NTeX). A postscript interpreter, usually
              ghostscript, which is usually installed on virtually every
              Unix-like system.  KLyX also uses the KDE applications kdvi and
              kghostview for wysiwyg-preview. Both come with the KDE
              distribution.

	Does KLyX has something to do with LyX?
	    
	      Yes, indeed. KLyX is a port of the popular LyX Document
	      (See http://www.lyx.org/) to the KDE Desktop Environment.
              The port was mainly done by Matthias Ettrich -- the original
              author of LyX -- and Kalle Dalheimer. KLyX has a couple of
              advantages over the former LyX version, though:
	      
		- modern look and feel
		- dynamic, dockable toolbars (equations, tables, ...)
		- context menus
		- Interactive document structure editor 
		- full keyboard control for dialogs
		- drag and drop
		- seamless integration into the KDE desktop
		- splitted view
		- multiple views
		- free available sourcecode of the GUI library

	    Most of the advantages stem from the use of the KDE libraries and
            the excellent modern application development framework Qt
            (see http://www.troll.no/).

	Wow! And what does this thing cost?
	    
	      Nothing. KLyX is free software distributed under the the terms of
              the GNU General Public License GPL (open source software). It is
              developed on a voluntary basis by an international team of
              software engineers for their own fun and usage.

	Current version, plattforms and availability

	      The current version of klyx is 0.10.0 but it is still evolving.
              It works fine on Linux and Solaris. You can download the software
              from ftp://ftp.kde.org/.  There will be a generic source
              distribution and source and binary distribution for several
              different platforms / package formats (such as rpm or deb for
              Linux. e.g. ).
              This current release 0.10.0 is still considered to be a BETA
              release, so expect a couple of glitches. We also plan to add a
              few more features and support more plattforms until we will
              release klyx-1.0.
              ( This release 1.0 should come out really soon now :-)

	Do I need to run KDE to use KLyX?
	      
	      No. If you have a basic KDE system installed, you can
	      run KLyX in any desktop environment you like, for
	      example CDE or Classic (which means twm, 5 xterms and a
	      xclock :-).
	     
	Bugreports

	     Please send bugreports to klyx-bugs@kde.org

	      
	Matthias Ettrich
	<ettrich@kde.org>



Last modified 23.04.1999:
    Jochen Kpper
    <jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de>
