On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:16:46AM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote: > There are two things worth mentioning:
> 1. XML,although a nicety, is almost useless for people who edit things in it. > It pushes one to type so many unnecessary keystrokes for even the most > trivial things, and eveything has to be typed twice (once for opening tag, > once for closing tag). TeX-like LyX syntax is much more concise and thus very > fast to type when you edit things by hand. It also disrupts the visual text > flow in the .lyx file much less. I'm an admitted keystroke whore. One of the primary reasons I stick with lyx rather than latex (which is generally more suited to my nature) is that it involves less keystrokes (the other being that I can see equations as I edit them; they tend to be too complicated for me to read in tex). Now, if some psycho would manage to bolt lyx equation display onto vim editing . . . hawk, who freqeuntly has extra hjkl's running around his documents