![]() ![]() L ATEX is a document typesetting program that converts text documents with markup language into final PDF format for filing. About five years ago I discovered L ATEX. ![]() Some patent application software solved some of the formatting and inconsistency issues, but did not solve certain issues and were not flexible enough in the area of general document editing such as equation entry and cross referencing. On the reverse side, they were missing certain key features. that allow for a large amount of inconsistency. Often, they offer the user too much flexibility in editing section styles, spacing, font sizes, etc. This led to a new set of problems: The document editing tools have several issues that go against proper patent application formatting. I found that once I had a better understanding of the organization of information required for an application, it was not a large step in properly formatting the information. I generally only take a first cut at claims just to clarify things in my mind. To be clear, the application I write is always vetted and modified in the end by a qualified attorney. To solve these problems and in continuing with the vector I was on, I decided to actually write the patent application myself. Sometimes, through weird actions within my company, things I wrote got rewritten in a different way than I intended without my permission or notification. Drawings I created were often rejected by the patent office. But then I found some other problems (more minor than the problems already outlined): I use a lot of equations and these were sometimes difficult for the patent attorneys to accurately copy. This made life easier for me and the patent attorney and theoretically saved some money. So, after my first invention I began to write clearer documents that described my invention in a form that more closely fit the information required by the patent office. I have found patent attorneys to be helpful in uncovering the invention, but overall too expensive to be used for that task and in the end, I often had to teach so many technical details that I thought that it might be easier to develop some better understanding of the system so that the information provided to the patent attorneys was already in the right form. LyX is released under a Free Software/Open Source license, runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X, and is available in several languages.1 Background the inventor while trying to uncover the actual invention. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor its printed output - or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced - looks like nothing else. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. ![]() In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/ LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents ( WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance ( WYSIWYG). ![]()
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