For what it's worth, it's a suggestion for LyX [1], not TeX. Lyx uses TeX/LaTeX, but you don't need to know TeX to use Lyx, anymore than you need to know how t

For what it's worth, it's a suggestion for LyX [1], not TeX. Lyx uses TeX/LaTeX, but you don't need to know TeX to use Lyx, anymore than you need to know how to use Microsoft Word with the control codes visible, to use Word. It's a powerful feature underneath you can drop into, but they are both GUI document editors. I would not recommend Lyx as a replacement for Microsoft Word if it's just a simple one-page letter. But it's quite a good suggestion for an alternative if you are writing a book or an academic paper. It has features to support citations, tables of contents etc., maybe better than Word does in some cases. (I've loved and used Lyx for two decades now, so I just had to defend it here, sorry.) [1] https://www.lyx.org/ https://www.lyx.org/