On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Hugh! > > You wrote: > > > * lyx, didnt really give this one much of a chance, v fustraiting to > > startwith so i guess there is potential there, didnt really like the > > gui but i tried it because i wanted to try something tex related. > > Well, I only recently started using lyx. Although I'm an experienced > LaTeX user and not everything I used to do in LaTeX is possible in lyx > yet, I must say that I quite like it. The interface (xforms) indeed > sucks, although changing the default preferences helps a lot in that > respect. And, even better, the next version will have a qt frontend! > > > so i guess what im looking for is a way to produce documents for > > printing but using a non-graphical environment. [thats why i mention > > HTML] All i need to be able to do is basic formatting and inserting > > graphics [graphs and tables can be generated by other programs] > > Output to pdf would be good. > > Sounds like vim+LaTeX. clueless question: how would i produce a document with vim and latex? latex blurb [from what i have read] says that latex is a set of macros for tex, but i dont really know what tex is apart from that its something to do with typesetting. So is the idea you produce a file with vim, then parse it with tex/latex/something which outputs a postscript file??? A bit like an html file is parsed by a browser...?
thanks for all the responses so far! hugh
