On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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... That is true of *every* piece of software. I'm sure that Knuth would say there are still bugs in TeX; not many since it's at version 3.14159... but there are some. And when it finally comes time to bump the version number to PI there will still be bugs in it. His old colleague Edsger Dijkstra said you can't test for the absence of bugs only their presence. > 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. Yup, by choice I'd use emacs (because I prefer to markup my client's document using DOcBook and LyX's support for that is not robust or general enough). > LyX on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time. > > This said, LyX is generally rock-solid. See above; emacs is usually rock solid but even that throws surprises. Hey Adobe is finding and fixing day zero bugs in Acrobat and Flash. Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed!
