On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:39:15PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> A really big problem with a conventional word processor
> is that when you are facing the screen
> with the window open, you are unable to know if it is a complete
> WYSIWYG sculpture of the document or if the author has made en extensive use
> of styles, symbolic references, etc.
> And if you don't know, a conversion program will hardly know either...
> Just have a look at HTML export and, worse, at HTML import (where there
> *should* be some style formatting).
That's true of course, but it hardly interests user when writing his
first LyX document (maybe, it would, but you have to tell him the thing
about the conversion).
> The point with LaTeX/LyX is that somebody somewhere should hack the styles
> for you, so you just have to know about your own scientific, juridic
> or any kind of significant stuff and don't mind other guys business:
> these other guys perform in fact a typographic job, and their life is simpler
> through the automation of the tedious part thanks to
> Donald E. Knuth and all people who made easy access to it.
Of course, I use LyX for all my writing, so I know why I do so :-), but
isn't this slightly too much black magic for introduction?
Matej
