On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote:
So unfortunately it's not anything concrete, but he talks more about a
general feeling. I'm guessing it's caused by frustration when you don't
know how to do things.
Yes, that's it. It is the same frustration I was feeling when I used
Word for the first time, for example. This is due to the the learning
of a new tool, and becoming acquainted with its physolophy.
Then, there's people that simply don't like the latex way and you
can do nothing to convince them (I know many), or, conversely,
don't like the Word way and similarly you will simply waste time
trying to bring them to primitive ways of writing.
This has not to be a holy war. He doesn't like LyX? Fine. I don't like
Word? Fine that, too. Everybody uses what he pleases most. What I am
concerned about is the possibility to have a choice, and luckily LyX
gives me that choice.
I don't know David personally, but from his posts I think he *wanted* to
like LyX. And that he was using LaTeX before.
So we are definitely missing users with experience from LaTeX that for
some reason don't get along with LyX[*].
/Christian
I tried getting two thesis students to use LyX, but they preferred plain
LaTeX because it was easier for them to do diff's and commits using
Mercurial.
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