I know nothing about Lyx, so I'll have to look into it. What format does
it keep its files in?
Patricia
On 3/9/2011 1:32 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
For people who don't know TeX, it might be possible to use Lyx?
Peter.
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
On 3/9/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Hobbs wrote:
Hi Patricia,
The basic rule is, if you're the first person doing it, then you get
to chose. And as you say, the result will be in a format that
everyone can read and see. I assume that your "left to myself" bit
describes a fairly standard way of doing this kind of thing. In which
case, I'd say go with that.
The approach I'm considering is the way it is often done in the
computer science academic world. Its main disadvantage is that it is
not WYSIWYG. Its advantages are very precise formatting control, text
source files that work well with revision control, and availability of
prepared BibTex data for many publications.
However, I don't want to exclude others who might not be familiar with
LaTex but would otherwise contribute.
On a vaguely related note. I agree with you that a distributed
transaction manager is a more useful (necessary?) addition than a
distributed Java Space, so I took the liberty of creating a Jira for
tracking it's issues, notes, thoughts etc.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-394
I hope that's okay.
It's not just okay, it's excellent. I plan to comment on it as I learn
relevant information.
Patricia
