On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:09:03PM +0100, Nachev, Parashkev C wrote: > ... I spoke of academia in general because I meant to include those > for whom a LaTex-based system is not *essential*, and those who have > no interest in computing. These people will use Word, and persist in > struggling with its inadequacies, because they find the alternatives > too complex to set up and use without technical knowledge.
I agree. There's one more problem. Linux distributions do not include LyX or pybliographer yet. Red Hat comes to mind. That means that people who are not technically skilled are expected to install these applications for themselves, even on Linux, unless they have a LyX-friendly admin. I can explain that previously they refused to do that on account of XForms-0.8x licence, but now when Qt backend is available there's no excuse for not including it. It seems that everybody is forcing OpenOffice on us these days. That thing is so huge and clunky that I wouldn't touch it with a stick. KOffice is getting better, but still not there. Since I do not use them anyway, I'd like to see LyX included in Red Hat (Fedora) with some bibliography tool. > Now you may of course feel that these people deserve their misery, but > surely the whole point of Lyx is to make the power of LaTex easily > accessible to those who have neither the facility nor the wish to > understand its technicalities. Agreed. A little help from Linux distros wouldn't hurt either. :-) As an aside note, for people who use BibTeX only databases, tkbibtex is still unbeatable in terms of ease of installation. Just drop it in your $HOME/bin and add exec permission to it. And it works on Windows too, since Tcl/Tk is available for all platforms. Best regards, -- Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
