Hi Erez, Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is important. What about the publication in economic journals of articles exported from LyX? I slowly begin to switch to LyX but I keep SWP for professional issues since I know that it is accepted by international journals...
Regards, Murat 2009/2/4 Erez Yerushalmi <erezyerusha...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I agree with much of what has been said. > > Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising > * - I'm using Murat's words. > For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues. > > Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something similar. > See example: > > http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/computing/lyx > > In the economics department at Warwick University we have many LyX > "converts". > > I really love LyX and thanks to it, have stopped writing by hand. > > Erez > > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Murat Yildizoglu < > murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr> wrote: > >> I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess >> with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex >> engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The >> possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance >> consequences on a larger diffusion of LyX in the academia. >> >> Murat >> >> 2009/2/4 Ken <kmai...@googlemail.com>: >> > It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of >> import/exporting >> > between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to "portable" latex, but it was >> > not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get >> a >> > decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards >> to >> > custom macros and images and I recall having a few other small issues). >> > >> > The much harder problem was getting LyX documents into SWP. I can't >> > remember exactly but SWP didn't like certain table formats. Any attempt >> to >> > import the tex file would cause SWP to balloon in memory requirements and >> > hog the CPU until it either crashed the machine or I killed the process. >> > >> > In the end the inflexible SWP won as the default application. But it is >> so >> > hard to go from amazing-and-free LyX to cumbersome-buggy-and-expensive >> SWP. >> > In fact, I would have much much rather just edited the raw text file than >> > use SWP (but even that was a nightmare as SWP adds line breaks to its >> text >> > file making 'diff' imposible to use). >> > >> > Again, I suppose my recommendation would be to make it as easy as >> possible >> > to have users move from SWP to LyX (and it isnt that bad at the moment) >> but >> > it probably isnt worth the time or energy to make LyX documents >> compatible >> > with SWP. I honestly think that once one writes a single paper with LyX >> > they will never go back SWP (but getting them to do that first paper is >> the >> > hard bit). >> > >> > -Ken >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 2009/2/3 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> >> > >> >> I have worked with a co-author that insists on using Scientific Word. >> My >> >>> experience is that not only is SW/SWP very expensive, I also find it a >> far >> >>> inferior product to LyX. It is not easy to import documents from SWP >> and >> >>> even >> >>> harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. >> At >> >>> the >> >>> university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not >> >>> LyX. >> >>> >> >> >> >> Is it still true that swp is able to export 'portable latex' or >> whatever, >> >> that >> >> is easier to import? How does LyX fare with that? >> >> >> >> JMarc >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** >> >> Prof. Murat Yildizoglu >> Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) >> GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) >> Centre de la Vieille Charité >> 2, rue de la Charité >> 13236 Marseille cedex 02 >> >> Bureau 320 >> Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) >> Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) >> Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) >> Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 >> >> e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr >> www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html >> ______________________________________________ >> > > > > -- > Erez Yerushalmi > PhD Student > Warwick University, UK > http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi > -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html ______________________________________________
