I'd say a little LaTeX knowledge is useful--don't overdo it. I put together a 14 page report in LateX that taught me enough about some of the underlying mechanics of LyX to be helpful.
I don't think I'm ever going to be an exclusive LaTeX user.. ________________________________ From: Ken Springer <snowsh...@q.com> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:10:54 PM Subject: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX First, another thanks for all the replies to my thread about using LyX as a word processor. In reading some of those replies, I'm left wondering a bit about LyX and LaTeX and their relationship. As well as TeX, for that matter. When I was really into learning a bit about desktop publishing, I bought a copy of Donald Knuth's books, The TeXbook and The METAfontbook, but never read them. If I'm going to try out LyX in the end, would it be of any value to me to do a little experimenting with LaTeX and Tex first, or just jump in the pool? LOL -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 Firefox 23.0 Thunderbird 17.0.8 LibreOffice 4.1.04
