>>>>> "Larry" == Larry S Marso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Larry> It's also been explained here, recently, that Word is *fully*
Larry> capable of so-called "document processing", but that it's
Larry> bogged down bloatware with lots of "two finger typist" support
Larry> -- so that it's LyX-like features are rarely used, and even if
Larry> used, slowed down by all the overhead.
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.
Trying to tell word users that they can use LyX just like word would
be a big error IMO: (1) LyX is not as good as Word as a pure
word-processor (try to use 10 fonts for your birthday party flyer) and
(2) trying to add these properties would just ruin LyX.
JMarc
