Definitely a happy camper. The point about the change from A4 to A5 with everthing else intact was interesting.
--- On Mon, 12/21/09, Raphael Bauduin <rbli...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Raphael Bauduin <rbli...@gmail.com> > Subject: Lyx used for a fench book: a great experience > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Received: Monday, December 21, 2009, 8:01 AM > Hi, > > I have helped an author (not a geek but rather an everage > office user) > to use Lyx for writing her book (in french) and the > feedback I got is > very positive (this should not come as a surprise, but I > thought it > was still worth sharing). She is using the memoir class, > and the latex > preamble contains the chapter layout config and versals > definition. > > The book is published by self edition (http://thebookedition.com) and > a big advantage of Lyx was that going from the A4 layout > used during > the preparation to an A5 layout used for the published book > took > exactly 2 minutes. There has been a problem at one time > with > hyphenation, but due to some language packages missing. > Once those > packages were installed, hyphenation was fine. > > The author is so enthousiastic about Lyx that she started a > series of > blog posts on her blog (in french: http://evedennels.com ) about Lyx. > > I wanted to share this positive experience, and thanks all > Lyx > contributors! Keep the good work! > > Raphaël > > -- > Web database: http://www.myowndb.com > Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org > __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
