1. I've seen your web site, Steve, and I must say it's a remarkable body of work and a great resource!
2. I think I'm going to be closer to Rich in the ebooks I write. I'll take the defaults whenever possible. I do a lot with the "latex-beamer" package, but I also use the R - LyX "Sweave" interface. But you do need to know LaTeX to figure out what's broken when you do a "view PDF" and get a cryptic error message out of "pdftex". Fortunately, LyX gives you a blue highlight "close" to where the problem is. 3. I do find LyX / latex-beamer frustrating, though. Till Tantau, who wrote "latex-beamer" and also the "pgf / tkiz" tool set, has made some absolutely stunning lecture notes with these tools. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to make my own presentations that beautiful, even though I've read the manuals and looked at the code. In any event, the tools *are* there. 4. There are instructions in the LyX documentation on how to do a "modular" document by including sub-documents. The projects I've done so far haven't needed that, but I'm starting a big one that will need that. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.
