LyX is a LaTeX based office system. A good starting point for information gives this Wiki. LyX includes a comfortable installation wizard for Mac and Windows.

KOMA-Script is a set of classes and packages for LaTeX (see http://www.dante.de) with adaptions for the german language. A very good starting point can be found in the KOMA-Script-Anleitung (german)!

Maybe the biggest tabel of special charcters!

The LaTeX Font Katalog - gives an overview of supported fonts.

For more detailed questions, following mailing lists can help:

• lyx-users@lists.lyx.org – For LyX, englisch

• de.comp.text.tex – For LaTex, german