2008/7/30 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:21, killermike wrote: >> The original question that starts is poorly conceived but this Slashdot >> thread brings up quite a lot of references to LyX in the comments. >> >> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/0039201 > > Having read most of the responses, they can all be summed up thusly: > > LaTeX (and LyX) is a committment. If you put a lot into it, you get a lot out > of it. If you put very little into it, you get less than zero out of it. > LaTeX (and LyX) isn't for everyone. IMHO if you're only going to write one > book, it's not worth learning LaTeX or LyX. For me, the payoff has come over > multiple books. >
Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I am currently an OOo Writer user. I am always frustrated with styles and I wish that I could just edit the source of the document like I edit HTML. In fact, I have often considered just using HTML but it does not translate well to PDF, and there is no good equations editing capability. I understood from the /. post that LyX would let me work with a document, and edit the source where I see necessary. Is this not so? Although I have invested in learning a bit of PHP, a bit of C, a bit of HTML/CSS, etc, I don't have the resources at the moment to spend more than a few hours learning a new tool. And full LaTeX will take more than a few good hours :) -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
