On 18.02.2012 12:28, Russell D Brunelle wrote:
If you have a good idea, then there's something special (I'm almost
tempted to say "sacred") about committing it to paper.
The emergence of abstract thinking was an early inflection point in the
development of our species. The invention of written language was
another. The invention of the printing press was yet another.
More recently, LaTeX made professional typesetting standards available
for free, and even more recently LyX made using those standards as easy
as using anything else.
I'm not saying that LyX is as significant as the printing press, only
that there's an unbroken stream of progress which it's a proud part of,
and for that reason I feel proud about using it.
So, why do YOU love LyX?
Russell
Hi,
1- Stability and reliability: It crashed few times on me (once in 2001,
but it was X, not LyX itself, that had crashed, and some times with some
1.6 or 1.5 alphas around 2006) but I never lost anything IIRC.
2- Focus on content: In a world where most think that appearance is more
important that content, a software allowing you to concentrate on the
content is precious.
3- Mix of WYSIWIG and WYSIWYM: you benefit from the best of both worlds,
and get little of their drawbacks.
4- Community: It's by far the best developer (& user) community I've
seen. There can be discussions on some features or implementations, but
there are usually much more civil than in other soft. Probably related
to the philosophy of point 2 above.
BR,
Olivier
