On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 11:08:26AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> The problem is not in the functionality, but in the spirit. Most
> people I know use Word as a glorified MacWrite. They don't structure
> their documents because word makes it easy to just manage words and
> make them look like what they need. This is the ``What you see is all
> you get'' problem. By making low level formatting less easy to obtain,
> LyX tries to make strctured documents the default. And that makes a
> huge difference.
You've repeated this theme twice today: that LyX is good because it
"denies people functionality", and maybe would be better if it denied
people even more functionality (like toggling bold).
LyX is great because it delivers far *more* functionality than any other
word processor.
To say that fonts are limited misses the point. It's font packages are
true typeset fonts, including ligatures -- which Word does not offer,
by the way, for those advancing the Word parity theory. Such font
collections are rare in the open source universe. That's the major
reason why LaTeX includes so few alternative fonts.
That new TeX book put out by Oxford University Press in 1998 is devoted at
least 50% to the question of how you build and install new font sets
for LaTeX, taking advantage of true typesetting. It identifies a handful
that are open source, freely available.
By the way, does the teTeX beta distribution (0.9?) offer additional font
sets?
Best regards
--
Larry S. Marso
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