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Originally Posted by kfarmer
Last I used it, LaTeX was very focussed on being able to compose glyphs, which was very useful.. in the sciences. Beyond that there wasn't too much and you hardly hear of it any more. So why LyX instead of a more mainstream editor (eg, a popular word processor, and just write import/export functions for it).
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It is still the tool used to produce scientific articles in many areas. For example at the computer science department I work LaTeX is what you use.
The important thing with and editor is that the format it uses is standardised and open.