On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Alan L Tyree <alanty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ken Springer writes: > > > On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200 > >> Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping > for. > > > > But it intrigues me. :-) I've got some simple help documents I want > > to create, and I want them to look as best as I can. So, I think, in > > about a month when I'm out of work again, I'll download LaTeX and work > > with it, then get into LyX. > FWIW, I don't agree with this. You can become productive with LyX *very* > quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. You can produce nice > looking standardised documents. It's magic. > Seconded. I began using LyX to typeset assignments for a logic class back when I still didn't have any real knowledge of LaTeX (not that my LaTeX knowledge is all that extensive now), and things more or less just turned out nice and well-formatted without any effort on my part. > Of course, you will eventually want to customise. THAT is the time to > start looking at LaTeX IMHO. > > Cheers, > Alan > > > > > Thanks to everyone for all the advice offered. > > > -- > Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan > Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org >
