I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance consequences on a larger diffusion of LyX in the academia.
Murat 2009/2/4 Ken <kmai...@googlemail.com>: > It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of import/exporting > between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to "portable" latex, but it was > not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get a > decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards to > custom macros and images and I recall having a few other small issues). > > The much harder problem was getting LyX documents into SWP. I can't > remember exactly but SWP didn't like certain table formats. Any attempt to > import the tex file would cause SWP to balloon in memory requirements and > hog the CPU until it either crashed the machine or I killed the process. > > In the end the inflexible SWP won as the default application. But it is so > hard to go from amazing-and-free LyX to cumbersome-buggy-and-expensive SWP. > In fact, I would have much much rather just edited the raw text file than > use SWP (but even that was a nightmare as SWP adds line breaks to its text > file making 'diff' imposible to use). > > Again, I suppose my recommendation would be to make it as easy as possible > to have users move from SWP to LyX (and it isnt that bad at the moment) but > it probably isnt worth the time or energy to make LyX documents compatible > with SWP. I honestly think that once one writes a single paper with LyX > they will never go back SWP (but getting them to do that first paper is the > hard bit). > > -Ken > > > > > 2009/2/3 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> > >> I have worked with a co-author that insists on using Scientific Word. My >>> experience is that not only is SW/SWP very expensive, I also find it a far >>> inferior product to LyX. It is not easy to import documents from SWP and >>> even >>> harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At >>> the >>> university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not >>> LyX. >>> >> >> Is it still true that swp is able to export 'portable latex' or whatever, >> that >> is easier to import? How does LyX fare with that? >> >> JMarc >> > -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html ______________________________________________
