Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

[Anders Host-Madsen]

> My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited. 

In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX. 
LaTeX is great when you write for a medium 
with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a 
style file to use. Then you just fill out the 
contents. But if you a free to format your document, and have 
specific ideas on how it should look like, it's 
not that convenient. I found the easiest way is to use 
LaTeX packages such as enumitem, fancyhdr, and 
titlesec. Once you have formatted one document, you 
can use it as template for following documents.