Hm, it's not quite as simple as that... LyX in the end just uses LaTeX
under the hood. While LyX allows you to get some output quicker than
starting with LaTeX itself, its functionality is limited in some
regards. In particular, if you need to use any LaTeX packages that are
not part of the standard LaTeX distribution, then you will still need to
know how to use them, because while you can use them in LyX it does
require that you are writing the input for them in literal LaTeX code
(which is supported by LyX all right), so that if you really want to get
decent mileage out of LyX you will still have to learn LaTeX.
To illustrate the point in terms of its practical relevance, let's say
you insert a table - LyX does that all right. Now the table gets a bit
longer and doesn't fit onto a single page in the PDF output anymore. The
standard LaTeX answer to this is to use the supertabular style. But that
is not a part of LyX. So you need to load it manually and write the
input manually... but if you can do that, then writing the rest of the
document in LaTeX should be easy.
But if you need to learn LaTeX anyway it will be a lot quicker and
easier copying the boilerplate stuff from some example, and then just
writing the rest of the input in your preferred text editor (the obvious
choice being EMACS, together with the auctex mode for LaTeX language
support).
Finally, LyX is not the only attempt to create a WYSIWYG editor around
LaTeX or TeX. I have had a look at a few of them in the past and have
forgotten their names - the real appeal of LaTeX is that usually it's so
good at layout that you don't have to worry about that aspect of
publishing very much, and you can focus on your content by using a text
editor. With appropriate language support that is also a lot faster than
having to move a mouse around in a clicky environment of any kind.
Kind regards,
Helmut.
On 25/07/16 17:33, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
http://www.lyx.org
As far as I'm aware, this will do everything you mention.
( IMHO it's the answer to every [maiden] type-setter's dream. )
( You don't have to learn any TeX etc. gibberish )
On 25 July 2016 at 09:41, Jim Cheetham <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> wrote:
>>> I have an acquaintance who who maintains some reference document in
>>> various forms. He produces identical documents in HTML PDF and DOC
>>> formats.
Here's what my Asciidoc makefile does :
a2x -f text document.adoc
a2x -f pdf -k document.adoc --dblatex-opts="-P doc.publisher.show=0 -P
latex.output.revhistory=0"
a2x -f xhtml document.adoc -a icons -a toc -a data-uri
I'm also using the same make process to generate different versions of
diagrams using graphviz, mscgen and asciio + asciitosvg. See the
discussion on the ZeroMQ Guide to see another example of this sort of
publishing chain
http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Removing-Friction
-jim
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