On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:51:31 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > Lyx is pretty nice but those > types of front-ends usually just get in the way.
You can do whatever latex wizardry you like and even plain tex in lyx. These portions just won't be interpreted on the fly and render verbatim on the screen. In addition, most latex commands are known to lyx. So you can type "\mu" and get a nice character µ on the screen. This is one of the rare cases where you can get both: A visual intuitive GUI plus the full power of machine code. This is not just blue sky talk, but from experience. I learned latex the hard way -- vi on a unix server to typeset the hand written notes of a mathematics professor. Yet, for my thesis I switched to lyx. The online graphical representation simply avoids a host of common errors. It makes navigation in the document so much simpler. Note, that lyx presents the document not quite like a word processor. It may look the same, but there are crucial differences. It treats the text more like a web browser. Line breaks are at the end of the window rather than where they would appear in print. Headlines look like headlines, but are not in the same font. For non lyx editing of latex documents, I'd recommend kile. This is an editor with sophisticated syntax features aimed in particular toward latex. ---<(kimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user