Back in December, I was working on a research project which was winding down, and we were drafting the final report. The team leader complained to me that he could not see a reasonable way to get everything into a decent looking report using MS Word. He was having a lot of trouble with cross-references in particular.
So I suggested using LyX, and installed it on his laptop for him. After a day working with it, he became enthusiastic about LyX, and over the next few weeks I received occasional phone calls asking how to achieve some particular layout, etc. Finally, he called to tell me he had delivered the report to the client. Yesterday I was visiting him, and he showed me the final paper version of the report. It certainly does look impressive. I don't think any other system could produce a document with 458 pages, over 400 figures, and a bibliography of about 100 items. Especially with cross-references and citations on nearly every page. And this was put together by one person in about three weeks. -- ...... Les Denham
