Uwe wrote something about how the original name of the application was
something like 'Lyrix', which I think was a play on 'lyrics'. I can't
confirm this personally however.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX
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History
* Matthias Ettrich started developing a shareware program called Lyrix in 1995.
* Soon after, it was announced on USENET where it received a great deal of attention during the
subsequent years.
* Shortly after the initial release, Lyrix was renamed to Lyx due to a name-clash with proprietary
software (a word processor by Santa Cruz Operation). It was released under the GNU General Public
License, which opened the project to the open-source community. The name LyX was chosen because of
the file-suffix '.lyx' for the Lyrix-files.
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regards Uwe
