Thanks all for your discussion on Lyx vs LaTex (and Word). I've been traveling and now pouring through a month's worth of emails. Just before I left, after reading all the documents that come with the TexLive system on Debian, I took 30 minutes and translated a few Lout letters into Latex. It works. In fact, some things are easier than in Lout. I started with lout because it looked like an easier learning curve and certainly a shorter download, but it doesn't do html.
I prefer to use a regular editor, like I've been doing with Vim and Lout, rater than a GUI and especially rather than a WYSIWYG. The advantage of just using any editor is that I can use any editor. I can take the file with me and use anyone's computer with any editor and work on a document. When I get home I can process it and see how it looks. Since my printer is text-only, if I want a document to look beautiful I get out my pen, ink, a nice piece of parchment, and start writing Chancery. With everyone else spitting stuff out on a laser printer, its amazing the positive reception a hand scribed letter receives. I can do all the prep work on the computer. I'll be starting a new structured document soon, using LaTex, and I'll learn how to set things up for good html presenation (in addition to good pdf, ps, and plain text). Thanks again, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
