<posted & mailed> Steve Litt wrote: > When you say "teach students to use latex/lyx to write down exercises", > that can mean two different things: > 1) The student is given a complete document class containing ALL the > environments and char styles needed, so he can use LyX like a word > processor.
Currently the standard article class is used, together with suitable template documents. It is understood the Lyx is only an interface to TeX, but, as you also remarked, TeX/Latex is too difficult for a student to learn (and probably not really useful, i would add). Yet LyX seems to be the only easy, graphical way to introduce students to professional math editing. Being easier than Latex to learn, student can focus on _explaining what they have understood_ about a given subject, providing material for other students to use. . > Bottom line, unless the school system is willing to write a set of very > complete document classes for the students, OpenOffice would be a much > better tool for students to do their exercises. Is this conclusion that would follow exclusively from choice n.2, am i correct? thank you -- Pol
