* [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Am I correct in understanding that things like Tex/Latex/LyX/Kalyx are | typesetters? And can someone explain what they are for and what the | difference between them is?
TeX is the base level of formatting. In TeX you can specify exactly how your document will look, but there are no abstractions for high-level formatting. In TeX you say how text shall look (big, bold, ...), not what it is. You won't usually need TeX. LaTeX is a layer of macros built on TeX. With LaTeX you can say that text shall be a heading and LaTeX will automatically decide how it shall look. LaTeX can generate table of contents for you, and including tables and such is very easy. LyX is a WYSIWYG-editor (What You See Is What You Get). It uses LaTeX to format your document but also shows how it will look. Since writing LaTeX-documents can be a little daunting for the starter, LyX is a very good idea for beginners. KLyX is just LyX for the KDE environment. All these are especially superb for scientific writing, but also highly usable for normal text. -- .elOle.
