Re: why Lyx ?

[petemartin]

Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the 
output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime 
computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This 
works of course only if you have the means to read that old 8inch floppy...