On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
>
> > I agree that LyX as such is a word processor, but it's also a
> > document processor. I personally prefer "word processor", because
> > the term "document processor" makes me think of "food processor", for
> > some strange reason, although I haven't seen a recipe class (yet).
>
> :)
>
> So "word processor" doesn't make you think of "food processor" but
> "document processor" does. Curious rationale.
>
> I prefer the term "document processor" for the many reason several of us
> have discussed in this list and personally find the term "word processor"
> obsolete and unnapropiate.
I agree with Alejandro in this. Leaving aside my own biases (word
processing reminds me M$ Word too much), considering the wysiwym
philosophy of LyX, you concentrate on creating a document, not putting
words together and see what happens... as the LaTeX engine takes care of
most stupid things Word users usually do (unless they use styles, which
they don't), we really produce whole documents. besides, except when i am
particularly bitchy with the final result, I usually don't even M-f d
until I am finished. That may be because the very-wysiwyg UI of LyX, but I
usually do the same with SGML documents and did the same when writitng raw
TeX/LaTeX...
So I'd say "document processor" is exactly what LyX is and what LyX
does...
Just my E0.02...
D@
