On Thursday 17 January 2002 23:50, Daniel Joyce wrote: > Given the sorry state of XForms, it is a horrid UI toolkit.
Couldn't agree more, but hang in there, Qt and GTK versions are on their way. > Given the old state of Klyx. True, but see above. > Given my inability to get Tables to work 100% correct in Lyx all > the time. I've never been able to get tables to work 100% correct all the time in any application, including raw coding! LyX 1.2 should have pretty good table handling - the verison I use at home is an old snapshot and the table-handling is rather buggy (it's the RPM from kayvan's site) but I have high hopes for the stable version. > I've decided to dump it all and write raw tex files. > > Guess what. It's not hard. No worse than writing Html, and in some > ways easier. No, it's not that hard, just tedious. Exactly like writing HTML, in fact! I see your point, though - if I knew LaTeX as well as I know HTML, I might do the same. > I've been using KTexMaker2, which is a first stab at a Latex aware > edittor, and it does a good job. The syntax hilighting needs a VAST > improvement thouh, but ya got the preview buttons, and other > goodies. Well maybe for LyX 3.0 or something, there might be different modes for inserting LateX code, or comparing concurrent LyX and LaTeX versions of a document or whatever. In the meantime, it does as good a job as can be expected. The whole point is that the user should need to think as little as possible about details of formatting, and for most normal formatting that works pretty well. I enjoy fiddling around with LaTeX occasionally, but I really can't be bothered most of the time - when I feel like hitting lots of punctuation keys, I write a Perl script ;-) Robin "One ping to rule them all, one ping to bind them" - Arya Stark Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
