On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there >> > any advantages or >> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? >> >> If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text >> pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up >> and to correct the text. >> >> Marcelo > > I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo > said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than anything > in which I need to see markup. > As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you have to put up with its bugs. The big advantage of using LaTeX is its reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only need a robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do the job. LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time.
This said, LyX is generally rock-solid. Cheers Liviu
