Processing your Document

 Once you have written your file and entered all the necessary L^ATEX commands, you have to process the file before previewing or printing it. This separation of editing and processing is true for almost any text formatter, and is the major difference between text formatters and word processing systems. FrameMaker and EZ both lean more towards the word processing, WYSIWYG¹⁰ style of editing¹¹. A graphical frontend to L^ATEX named LyX is also available in the outland locker¹²