On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, A. L. Meyers wrote:
- Dear fellow LyXers,
-
- Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it
- does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went through
- reformatting a cv using LyX. In 15 minutes I had a beautifully formatted cv
- using the class "article" without setting a single font size.
I started using lyx with version 0.10 or so while in college (second
time around). Once I got used to the 'new' way of doing things I
found it was _much_ faster to create good looking papers with Lyx than
with Word or Wordperfect precisely because I never had to worry about
font sizes or paragraph spacing or such. You have no idea how
valuable it is to a student to be able to type it in, spell check, a
few clicks for formatting, and print it out. Saved me hours of time I
could use for studying. Sometimes even left me time for the wife and
kids.
Sometimes the formatting for preview took a while using Linux running
on a 486, but is was easy to break really long papers into smaller
chunks I could check fairly quickly.
Now that I am in the 'real' world, I still use Lyx when I can. I used
to maintain internal Network documentation with it and latex2html.
After I left, the new maintainer switched to Dreamweaver and gripes
constantly about how he never has time to keep up.
- However, I understand that someone might want to set a specific font size.
True, it may be necessary but for someone who, like me, just wants to
produce output, it is no big deal. Lyx is a fabulous tool.
--
--Stephen Carville
http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
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