On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 01:43 am, Alex wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > One student who makes her diplom about "Comparing LyX to another Word > > processors", asked me about the minimum HW required fo LyX. > > Hi Alex, > > I think her initial question is unfair. Equally unfair would be "Comparing MS > Word to other book rendering programs". MS Word isn't a book rendering > program, and LyX isn't a word processor. > > In my personal opinion, one would have to have rocks in their head to use LyX > for a 5 or 10 page document. In the time it takes to figure out how to change > one style (Environment) in LyX, you could have completed the whole task in MS > Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice. ...
Oh, boo ... ;-) I write nearly everything in LyX, from letters to the 12 or 15 page exams I give every 6 weeks or so. I wouldn't dream of using Word or the equivalent for these, and my trust in LyX/LaTeX/TeX has consistently been rewarded. The times it doesn't work for me and others in my family are 1) when I'm trying to quickly figure out how to print names of players on an AYSO game card (O.O., the Word equivalent), 2) I'm creating a handout requiring page layout work (Scribus), or 3) my kids' work requires some screwed up formatting a reference page, and I don't know ERT. I do not come from a computer/TeX background, so this is hard to do without the excellent help found on this list. Cheers, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
