On 18/11/11 04:41:57, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: > > As Helge sometimes points out, this is > > important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on > > a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. > > > > Richard > > And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document > editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- > spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about > mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, > confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based > authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige > default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty > enough > > for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite > of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance > tells > > you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old > WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted > to > > see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect > equivalent > > of LyX's View->PDF. > > Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no > PDF > > involved anywhere. It goes like this: > > LyX->eLyXer->metadata tweaks->Kindlegen->Upload > > But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was > the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little > while, but that was a migration to Pity City. > > LyX is a GREAT editor.
Steve & others, I found these comments to be very interesting. LyX is a great editor, and it seems that it is moving gradually away from its roots as a LaTeX "front end". How much effort would it be to incorporate the "metadata tweaks" directly into the LyX document? It would mean that LyX could become a major method of writing eBooks. Cheers, Alan > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 sip:172...@iptel.org
