Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
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> OK, LyX users, could you tell Mike why you are LyX users? ;)
There are many reasons:
Lyx use very little resources (cpu & mem) compared to others.
Try loading the user guide (40 pages or so of heavily formatted text
demonstrating every feature, such as tables, pictures, math, lists
and so on.) It loads fast. Then try to scroll through it all.
The performance is fantastic, even on an old machine with only 32M.
Rendering the tables, pictures and math on screen isn't noticeably
slower
than text. The scrolling don't get awkward around a big picture.
Try something similiar with word. :-(
Lyx create small document files. Why do word and others
create 20k-60k when lyx creates 5k-6k?
Lyx works well on linux
I like the WISYWYM instead of WYSIWYG idea.
Fantastic for math and other things latex does well.
You don't lose stuff with lyx. It rarely crash. Particularly,
it don't crash more just because the document is huge and contain
all sorts of convoluted tricks. (Try the user guide again).
And if it crash, (i.e. somebody tripped over the power cord)
nothing much is lost. And the files contain readable text if you
ever manage to mangle a file so bad that lyx refuse it. You can then
save your work with a plaintext editor. That doesn't work
so well with word and others that fill the file with binary data and
store paragraphs in random order.
And lyx don't do strange things like asking me about saving changes when
I didn't make any. Try to read a document with word (or staroffice),
and it will prompt about "saving changes" even though I didn't
do anything other than scroll through it. This makes me nervous
when I close a editor that I forgot to close for few days - was there
any changes or is it just bogus? In other cases it is irritating.
And don't even mention stupid things like capitalizing " i " by default.
Lowercase "i" is a common word in my language...
Lyx may take some more getting used to than changing between word-like
word processors. Once you get used to it you _don't_ want to go back
though, and neither will your grandmother.
Helge Hafting
