On Feb 7, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
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 ยต
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.
I'm going to add my voice to the love for LyX. It's absolutely
brilliant, and I used it very happily all the way through my MEng
for typesetting my reports. The BibTeX integration in particular is
a joy to use!
What I don't see in the LyX docs is any *automated* way to get from
a .lyx document to printed output. The way I use TeX with gEDA, "cvs
update;make docs" builds all of the documents from the
various .tex, .sch, etc. I have been using TeXShop as a TeX editor:
as it keeps documents in TeX source form, there is no issue here.
Can LyX do this?
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
j...@noqsi.com
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