Uwe StÃhr wrote:
Nicolas Ferrà schrieb:
Now that I am on the other side (the teaching one), I decided to share
my enthusiasm with students. Like I know some of the LyX users have
very little knowledge of LaTeX, I am confused: shall I start teach
LaTeX or LyX ?
LyX is designed to create texts in LaTeX without the knowledge of LaTeX.
And this concepts works. I know people who have written large documents
it absoluetely doesn't work for students writing their thesis.
This is the experience from ly LaTeX courses.
without knowing how LaTeX is working in the background of LyX.
this depends to what you write. A special case is the bibliography,
often you have to write some magic code into the bibliography.
My experience: If they had problems, you could explain them a single
LaTeX-command and how it is entered correctly into LyX as ERT and the
this implies that they understand how LyX works ... A lot of
the LyX user do not _really_ know the difference of a LyX
layout and a LaTeX class.
next time they were able to use this command without help. It's a kind
of learning LaTeX/LyX step by step. But if the step is too high, you'll
immediately hear the sentences
"It's too complicated. Word is so much easier, I'll return to it."
It lasts a while till the advantages of LyX/LaTeX can compensate the
difficulties.
this is not what my students say after an introduction into LaTeX.
They understand the basics of LaTeX and they know after a _very_
short introduction into LyX what it does. But this is not possibe
vice versa.
Herbert
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