I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that
the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as
LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX.
Actually my example article did use a mathematical equation to
illustrate the power of LyX, in fact, that was the very first example
I gave and for the reasons you site, TeX's background. In fact, in my
article I state "TEX, the underlying technology for LyX, was original
invented in order to produce beautiful mathematical equations." So it
would appear we are in agreement.
Why compare LyX in the
category of liberal arts html page-makers?
I'm afraid I don't understand your point. As I state in my conclusion
"The only reason I put up with LyX is that it makes handling the
formulas and bibliography issues with my book on retirement planning
much easier to deal with." In other words, the reason I used LyX at
all was because I'm writing a book on retirement planning that I'm
posting on my website that involves a large number of equations and
an extensive bibliography, two areas where TeX especially shines.
Thanks,
Yaron
P.S. The article says "TEX" instead of "TeX" due to a quirk of the
HTML generation I forgot to fix.
On Jan 30, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yaron Y. Goland"
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To: "Rich Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: A Newbie's Experience with LyX
Ligatures result in bizarre character choices in HTML if a font
other than AE is used - I suspect this is just ignorance on my
part. When I generate HTML directly form inside of LyX I don't
have the ligature issue. It should shows up when I use htlatex
(e.g. TeX4ht) directly. But I have to use htlatex because LyX
doesn't have BibTeX support for HTML. If I could just find the
right argument for htlatex I'm guessing this problem would go away.
Yaron
As you may know, LyX was designed for Linux and later ported
to Windows. During the installation LyX checks for Latex2html
and hevea and one other I forget. These choices are not very
easy to configure for Windows; but htlatex certainly is. So I
think exporting to Latex and then running htlatex is the way to go,
which is a minor inconvenience=WinLyx imperfection.
I don't think you were aware, when writing your review, that
the strength of LyX is generating mathematical equations as
LyX is a front-end to (La)TeX. Until about FrameMaker 5.5
for Windows appeared which is good, the only excellent equation
generator was Tex which ran on *nix platforms
until it was ported; from a technical writer pov, for docs
over 200 pages. Word had the very worst evaluation.
You are smart intelligent writer. But I think your review
should have used a math equation or diagram example file
for html conversion and it didn't because you didn't know
that was the strenght of LyX. Why compare LyX in the
category of liberal arts html page-makers? It isn't special
in that category and makes no claim to be special. So
your article "should" have at most given a one/two-line
dismissal to LyX as a textual html generating tool, and
instead informed the reader about how great LyX was
in generating a technically oriented document. Your
article isn't written correctly as a sample of your tech
writing expertise (in which I believe you want to excel).
I think you should have said what LyX is really good at.
The file below (xypic.tex) is a good example of a more
technical example of writing that demonstrates LyX.
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/xypic/
The file does use the ae fontscheme. The high quality conversion
took seconds, while the ($450) Acrobat conversion was a flop.
I was certainly wrong about that. The conversion had a problem
with one png file that came with the document.
So to make it perfect I had to edit the source .htm file after
htlatex produced it. You can see the source htm code under
View/Source on Internet Explorer. That file needed to be edited
with a text editor. I replaced the bad htlatex generated code
Original bad code: src="xypic0x.png" alt="PIC" class="graphics">
<!--tex4ht:graphics name="xypic0x.png" src="xyfigure.PNG"
with
constructed, displayed and interactively edited inside LY X. <!--l.
74-->
<P class=indent><IMG class=graphics alt=PIC
src="Using_XYpic_in_LyX_files/xyfigure.png"><!--tex4ht:graphics
name="xyfigure.png" src="xyfigure.png"
and it took about 15 minutes to proofread it and fix hypen errors.
I think a good article should contain a produced example, maybe not
in a blog though. My impression was that both you and Rich
produce very few equations so don't fathom a critical field area.
The LyX learning curve is less steep than (X)Emacs which is good
because complex Latex can make early inroads on LyX competence.
Just so you don't think I'm being too critical, I think you are bright
and a very good writer with a flair for computer literacy/research..
I thought your article bordered on the technical category. My post
may be a bit off topic since most comments are about how to do
things when writing with LyX rather than the content, but a
tutorial written in LyX about Lyx over-spills the self-referential
property
and I think you did post your blog url to engender responses. I've
used LyX to typeset a right-justified letter, convert to pdf,
convert to jpeg, and then insert as picture in an html email wherein
the client never realized it wasn't a text-based missive. So if
this post seems a bit too finely grained, well I might be
obsessive :-).
Cheers,
Stephen
