> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: WRB - Installing LyX > > William R. Buckley schrieb: > > > Don't know what a *nomenclature* is with regard to publishing. > > I meant the glossaries. > > > As for the others, like bibliographies and indexes, yes, Ventura > > Publisher handles these quite well. > > Interesting. I once tested out Framemaker which seems to be > very similar to Ventura. The problem there was the > bibliography: In scientific papers you have a lot of > references, so you use databases to collect and insert them. > But every publisher has its own bibliography format style, so > that sending a manuscript to different publishers is a > nightmare when you cannot change the bibliography format > style with a few mouse clicks. > > What I like with LaTeX are its powerful math and bibliography > capabilities and that you can change every time the layout of > the document. I can even take a document that I usually print > in A4, set its page margin to A5 or whatever and get a nearly > ready to print document, becase LateX does the recalculations > for me, including the image placements. This is useful when > producing books as you don't always know the exact book page > size while typesetting. > > > Like I suggested, Ventura Publisher would alone be sufficient to > > produce the Encyclopedia Britannica, and quickly so. I > take it that > > experienced LyX users would say the same about LyX. > > Of course you can reach the goal to typeset books in > different ways. LaTeX is only one of them.
I agree with the point that TeX has deep integration with bibliographic stores, and that is not well served in Ventura Publisher. But, for all that has been incorporated within the publication, things get real easy. Glossaries, lists of figures, lists of tables, cross-references, you name it. I don't really use all this power, since most of what I write are academic publications. The only complaint I have with Ventura Publisher is, well two complaints, it does not output or input LaTeX, and Corel Corporation has effectively abandoned the product. In truth, much as I love Ventura Publisher, the lack of product development on the part of Corel means that I must seek other tools. LyX will probably be the choice I make. I am effectively there already. > regards Uwe > >
