On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:09:36 +0200 Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Steve Litt > <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 25 June 2011 19:17:18 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >> > 2. Yes, I remember this is a lyx list, but ... are there > >> > any advantages or > >> > writing this book in plain latex instead of lyx? > >> > >> If you work in plain latex, while you write it, you get a text > >> pestered with commands. That makes difficult the work to write up > >> and to correct the text. > >> > >> Marcelo > > > > I couldn't have said it better myself. And because of what Marcelo > > said, I find LyX is a MUCH faster authoring environment than > > anything in which I need to see markup. > > > As much as I agree with this, the one drawback of LyX is that you have > to put up with its bugs. The big advantage of using LaTeX is its > reliability: as long as you know exactly what you do, you only need a > robust text editor (or another, or yet another one) to do the job. LyX > on the other hand can throw surprises from time to time. > > This said, LyX is generally rock-solid. Cheers I agree also, but I have an old very large project with lots of custom macros that simply won't translate well into LyX. I use emacs + auctex + reftex and find it very good. Auctex supplies a "folding" mode that allows you to hide most of the markup (actually, as much or as little as you want). Not quite a slick as LyX, but not far behind either. It is a viable alternative. Cheers, Alan > Liviu -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206
