Hello Eildert, we are using LyX here at university for maintaining large documents.
> Hello everyone, > we are currently considering spreading the use of LyX in the public > scientific (and administration) community beyond the traditional Unix > clientel, trying in a possibly rather well funded project to migrate people > from Windows/Word to LyX/LaTeX/BibTeX. To be able to do this a few things > need to be addressed, for which I would like to get a response from the > developers community. > > 1. letter templates: there needs to be a straightforward way of creating > letter heads. With a substantial amount of hacking we got one for our own > purposes. But this is too complicated for general use. Are you sure that you do not want: WYSIWYG > 2. While a large number of bibtex styles are available on the internet > only very few are part of the TeX/LyX distribution. Here, in the > bibliography section of LyX a pull down would be very helpful to try > a few. Correct. > 3. there are many ways to maintain bibtex files. However, there should be one > means (point and click) of maintaining them as part of the package. Pybliographer? > 4. A number of filters do exist to convert between other literature styles > (like medline) to bibtex. Also these should be part of the package. > 5. LyX needs to speak German (perhaps it does, certainly Klyx did, it was > supposed to be merged with LyX - integration into kde certainly seems > very sensible). No problem here: declare -x LANG="de_DE@euro" declare -x LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" > 6. What about groupware functionality: a number of people working on the same > document should have the facility to keep track of who changed what. > I have to confess, that I have very little to offer in terms of LyX, which > make it impossible for me to persuade people to move away from Word. The same situation here. We use CVS to do something like this, but the word solution is better for text processing. The only communication solution are the notes which may be inserted. Rainer. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Stuttgart Tel.: +49-711-7816-215 / Fax: +49-711-7816-288 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-70565 Stuttgart http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/
