DA>> What about lyx? It does all the dirty latex work for you DA>> automatically, has a very powerful math editor, and since DA>> version 1.3x with its qt interface it has what must be the best
Well, as of then lyx was incapable of doing so many things (starting from the basics: tables and non-trivial equations) that it had to be ruled out almost immediately. It, however, served its role in teaching me how LaTeX document should look and I had picked it from there. Again, it certainly may be a great progress in this area nowdays, I didn't follow it - is it indeed possible and easy to write, say, coursework on some math subject in Hebrew (equations, tables, diagrams, etc.) using LyX only? As easy as in Word and even easier? DA>> In fact, the Hebrew support of msoffice is another set of myths: DA>> that there is no good Hebrew support in "alternative" office DA>> suites, and also that msword's rtl logic is correct and should DA>> be emulated. Msword's RTL logic is rather faulty, as is it in other MS products. There are some reasons for that, including (but not limited to) those outside of MS domain (for example, one cannot blame MS for '-' meaning three things in one character and all the problems that follow from it) but the question is - do we have something better? DA>> During this last week I've been using lyx (1.3.2 with the qt DA>> interface and configured as per Dekel Tsur's site) to write Well, I guess it is time for an experiment. I will (probably on weekend or next week) d/l lyx and try to move one of my present works (consisting of some pretty trivial formatting) to it. If it works - I'm one happy man, if it doesn't - well, tough luck. DA>> mixed-language documents, with some "advanced" features such as DA>> inline formulas. I'll be very uncomfortable the next time I'm Word is very sucky on formulas. Actually, that was what moved me to do the said work in LaTeX back then. LaTeX rules at formulas. If only all the rest would be as easy as this... DA>> I think any user could make the switch to the lyx mindset, and DA>> that most would be very happy once they got rid of the DA>> compulsive need for manually arranging font sizes and DA>> whitespace. Well, here's a problem. I *hate* when some dumb program tries to tell me what my whitespaces should be. It may give me the tools to do the right (from its POV) thing, but it should always give me enough rope. That's what I despise windows systems for - they are made to protect the user from himself, and I positively hate systems with this design. Must be something personal. DA>> shortcoming of lyx though; it just isn't meant to edit WYSIWYG DA>> stuff. Well, then criticizing the Office (which *is* meant for that) one should propose the anternative. Do we have one? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
