On Die, 26 Jan 1999 Amir Karger wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:17:30PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
>> > Sorry to write it: Scientific Word/Workplace.
>> > But actually most Word users might not know that Windoze program as well.
>>
>> I have Scientific Word 2.5. It's an ok program, but IMO not as
>> good as LyX. It's similar in many aspects, since it's built
>> on top of LaTeX. It imports LaTeX to a (very) limited degree.
My boss is actually using SciWorkPlace - newest version (don't know what that
is). It actually uses LaTeX as it's native format ! Usually it uses some kind
of add-on macros, but you can load and save everything without the use of
these macros. To me it looks like it does a pretty good job on reading my old
latex docs - some of which are quite long and heavy. We copied some
packages(styles) that didn't come with the program directly from my Un*x box
and it used them.
Also we are exchanging docs prtty often, his SciWord code looks nice so I can
immediatly work on it (well, using AucTeX :-(). ( No, not back to old
discussions her! )
>> It has a relatively large range of default document styles
>> built in. The range from all kinds of technical articles to
>> books, faxes, letters, memos, press releases, thesis and
>> a lot more.
Yeah, but I think that'S the bad part about it :-)
These styles and their organization are just confusing.
You cannot change your documents basic style after you started typing, so you
have to do anything by hand.
We never found a style that satisfies any of my boss' needs, so he is doing all
the configuration agian, ... .
>Larry, I hope you're listening. This would be a great place to get ideas
>for LyX templates (although I agree it will be important to decide when we
>need new layouts and when we just need some LyX or latex preamble
>formatting).
Yep, this is a program to look at - to get ideas and to get ideas about what
_not_ to do. After all, it's nice, but it's running on Windoze - that's what
disquilifies it for me :-)
For LyXs templates I would like to see one good template for each main document
type (book, thesis, article, letter, fax, manual, ... ) plus evtl. subtemplates
to provide language/society specific stuff (Like a letter template with
subtemplates/options for Italian/German/Britisch/Danish/... well American if it
really needed :-).
Greetings,
Jochen
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