Back in 2001, switching away from writing books in MS Word (yeah, laugh all you want), I considered both LyX and DocBook. At the time, the only free software front end I could find for DocBook was Emacs, and my wrists just aren't that flexible.
LyX benefits: * VERY fast writing environment. 3000 words per day no problem if you think that fast. * WYSIWYG enough that you don't need to switch between input view and output view. * Very nice presentation on paper with little effort. * Easy to tweak with an editor if the LyX front end doesn't cut it for a task. * Lots of LaTeX packages to do specialized stuff. LyX disadvantages: * Creating or modifying styles is excruciatingly difficult and requires LaTeX/TeX knowledge. HTH SteveT On Friday 21 November 2008 11:18:35 am Ethan Metsger wrote: > Hi, all. > > I promise I'll be quiet after this post--I don't mean to pester (or imply > by any stretch that I'm unhappy with LyX in general!). But can anyone > comment on this? > > For what it's worth, I really do like LyX, and I'm not trying to troll or > put on anyone. I'm just curious about the capabilities and hoping not a > little to spur its adoption among my general work populace. > > Thanks again, > > Ethan > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:43:43 -0500, Ethan Metsger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Hi, all. > > > > I figured I'd send a quick query to the list about using LyX with > > Docbook/XML. I know there's been a little bit of traffic on this in the > > past, but I haven't seen anything recently, and my searches online > > haven't turned up much else, either. > > > > We're in the process of evaluating some tools for transitioning our > > documentation away from Frame, and my bid to use LaTeX with LyX as a > > front-end and pdflatex/plastex as the backend didn't really gain much > > traction. > > > > My boss prefers to use Docbook--a number of our customers use it, and > > it's an accepted standard in our industry. There are some commercial > > products for Docbook editing that we're investigating, but I remembered > > that LyX provides some support for it also. > > > > > > I was able to make some HTML and PDFs out of the basic document I > > created when using SGML tools, but I wasn't able to get similar results > > from the exported XML. Some online reading leads me to believe that > > this is a somewhat more difficult task than I'm really willing to > > undertake, but I thought I would ask here. Is there a good workflow for > > using Docbook/XML with LyX, or are we still kind of waiting on it? > > > > Thanks much, > > > > Ethan > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
