On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > Word and its ilk have made people think they can do creative > typesetting, when in fact what they tend to do is make a mess of things. > I personally think it's a *good* thing that LyX does not make this easy. > I agree. I prefer LyX primarily because it knows (via LaTeX) how to nicely typeset things simply by using default settings. A related reason is that Word (et al.) sucks at typesetting even when you know what you do. And as a general rule of thumb I suck at typesetting documents (along with ~99% of Word users). Default LaTeX classes as a benchmark for a well typeset document is probably a good start; then you can sharpen some rough edges, here and there, often by using some other LaTeX packages or functionalities. Or you can leave things as they are, and they'll still be better than Word output.
Regards Liviu
