> My advice is that you are better off with a plain text editor for
> cretaing the tex files and using a command line to compile
> it. Lyx/Klyx is a pain in the neck. I have started to use it many
> times and given up after a few sentences. One of the reasons I dislike
> Word is that to type in an equation like a = b + c, I have to do a lot
> click-click-type-click..... Lyx/Klyx seems to take us back there. It
> definitely is not my cup of tea.
the following is a very personal opinion, and had i known tex well enough
i myself would have been a bit contemptuous about it. But i find, for
people a little shaky on tex ( aka me), Lyx to be a very helpful tool
indeed.
However as per my experience i have never quite managed to do away with
tex escape sequences in lyx. So to have the best of both worlds its good
to have both lyx and tex. Atlest for starters. I look up on tex not as an
end all word processor but a quick tex generator which i can then hand
tune.
Suppose I dont know how to do a particular thing on tex, I always have
the option of looking up Leslie Lamport but if I am in a hurry, its much
more convenient to do it through Lyx and look up the Tex equivalent in
goodtime.
And about "click - click -type click" Lyx is strewn with lots of
key-board accelartation. So it is not necessary to touch the mouse but one
may always choose to
> For starters, if your files are not too large try vim with syntax
My oh my,does vim rock ???
"vim + gcc + ctags +cscope " thats my IDE
sreangsu
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