When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was
precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated.
> - 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.
>
