Guenter Milde wrote:
My proposal would be:LyX is a graphical frontend for LaTeX. ...
Well, it is not _just_ that IMHO. My proposal:"LyX is a graphical word processor mainly used with a LateX backend. LyX is especially suited for structured document writing."
The plain text export of LyX for example is excellent and doesn't rely on LateX.
Abdel.