Hi, I saw the following on Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201
"For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific
documents, but truly I am getting tired of its complexity. You
have to install new packages for new features, compatibility
issues are everywhere, you need to know commands for everything,
table composition is torture, image insertion is an odyssey if you
don't have the 'right' format, and you need to be a LaTeX Jedi
master to create a new document class. I'm looking for a document
processor (not a word processor) that is a viable replacement for
LaTeX, possessing all of its advantages consistency between text
and math text, automated cross references, direct PDF creation,
etc. but that is not stuck in the 1980s with the compiler
metaphor and weird font technology. An application with visual
interface and so on. I've tried Scientific Word and Lyx but both
are front-ends for LaTeX. Publicon only produces PDF files by
exporting to LaTeX and subsequently using pdflatex. Add-ons for
MS-Word are a joke, and webEq is intended for web publishing, not
for PDF production. Does anybody know of a decent,
scientific-structured document processor that is a modern
application?"
Note that in the end the persons says:
I've tried Scientific Word and Lyx but both are front-ends for
LaTeX.
One thing I thought about as an interesting question is if it's true that
LyX is _only_ a frontend for LaTeX. Do we support or plan to support
different backends than LaTeX?
Oh well, off to vacation
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
