On 11/14/05, Nusret BALCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know Scientific workplace from my MS thesis: It's > reasonably well, but sometimes you need to tweak the > Latex code anyway. For some reason you should be > extremely careful doing that, because it tried to eat > my document a couple of times when I was trying to > write the abstract and bibliography. Thanks God I had > multiple backups :). It sometimes does not cooperate > well with other editors, and I guess that's the reason > for incompatibility. You're right in that, it's not > very reliable for sharing documents (at least I feel > so). > This is true even when you save the file as portable > LaTeX and avoid all those TCI macros. Anyway, it's in > fact a good piece of software, but if someone requests > hundreds of dollars for something, they should be > ready for all kinds of moaning and whining (like mine > :)). And to be fair I used it a couple of years ago, > so probably newer versions may be more robust. > > I don't know if you mean that, but I tried to set up > emacs and auctex with preview mode but for some reason > emacs keeps freezing and crushing on my machine: I'm > not a big fan of it anyways:). Therefore I couldn't > get to the preview mode at all:). Searching for a > solution, I've seen an article on the web which > mentioned LyX in just one line (it was about Vim vs. > Emacs; namely something alien for a Windows user like > me:) > > LyX fares well as the time being though, and I'm > fairly impressed.
Nusret, I was an user of Scientific WorkPlace, and I was extremely hesitant before migrating to LyX. Now, using LyX, I can tell you that I feel as having done the best choice. In short, LyX is an intelligent program made by intelligent people. Welcome to LyX and to this very helpful mailing list! Paul
