On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Joakim Pietras wrote: > Unfortunately, there is no obvious way of producing arbitrary layouts > from within LyX, without reverting to LaTeX. And for entering LaTeX > source, I'll take Emacs over LyX any day. Me too. I think LyX is good for people afraid to dive right in to writing LaTeX documents, but I never use it because I prefer Emacs/LaTeX. I think LyX is also good for some very complex documents, like newsletters with illustrations and multiple columns -- Jeff Covey posted URLs on here a while ago for a newsletter he did with LyX. It looked like it would be very hard to do something like that without LyX. The trouble I have with LaTeX is that it's sometimes difficult to find the right style/package for a given layout. While the CTAN archives have a lot of great stuff, it usually takes me a long time to find just the right package to use -- a comprehensive list of packages with descriptions and documentation would be welcome.
