Well, WYSISOROWYMG (what you see is sort of reminiscent of what you might get), provided that you don't need to use much in the way of ERT ("evil red text", the

Well, WYSISOROWYMG (what you see is sort of reminiscent of what you might get), provided that you don't need to use much in the way of ERT ("evil red text", the LyX derogatory term for LaTeX literals). LyX prefers WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean). The only way you can get anything approaching a layout view while typing is to carefully adjust the editor width, and even then line breaks will only be approximate (because hyphenation hasn't been computed) and there's no indication of pagination. I like LyX for straightforward documents, but it's not WYSIWYG, and it doesn't claim to be.