On Saturday 25 June 2011 22:09:36 Liviu Andronic wrote: > 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.
Hi Liviu, Yes, LaTeX reliability is indeed a pro-LaTeX factor. Another pro-LaTeX factor is simplicity. Not simplicity from the typist's viewpoint -- LyX is simpler from that point of view. But when you start doing complex stuff and making your own commands and environments, LyX is more complex. Plus LyX native format is different from LaTeX, and you need to use both. For all these reasons, when I create a Beamer presentation, I use LaTeX with Vim rather than LyX. I find the former less complex. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
