Well, I would vote on the checking it out part. LaTex is excellent, but oy-ya-veh! Talk about an investment in time!
If Lyx does not have a steep learning curve, I believe it would be great to use LaTex in this fashion. Jet > Hi Owen, > > I was the one who suggested using Lyx for this project. > > Lyx is a frontend processor to LaTex, et al, which let's you write > your document while it takes care of the formatting. It's has a long > pedigree, works on Linux, Mac, Win > platforms, and is highly stable, with an active developers base. > > See website and wikepedia page: > > www.lyx.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX > > Also check out some of these article links I got off its website: > > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/lyx-made-easyhttp://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_tog... > > I think this is the all around best choice for this type of rapid (pun > intended) project. > Lyx comes with its own version control system, or can use an external > one, imports and export to Latex, PDF, etc, and produces output that > you can absolutely control and see what it looks like before going to > print. > > Oh, and it's all open source software and FREE! > > Besides the initial learning curve, there are very few reasons for not > using Lyx as a long term platform for producing any of the documents > the Hobo project will/should produce over its lifetime. > > My 2 cents. > > Jabari
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