On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
> What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
> skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
> this "LyX-styler" as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
> handful of nice usable layouts that would suit most people writing letters,
> and other none complicated texts. The LyX-styler would be run when people
> needed a special typesetting. It should write LyX preambles, .layout .bst and
> .sty-files. It must have a GUI.
(snip)
> I put this questions therefore forward to the user-list to open a discussion:
> Do we need a "LyX-styler"; is there better ways of dealing with layout issues
> and, perhaps more importantly, is there people interested in working on such
> a program.
You've certainly been echoing my thoughts. I can get by because, although
I don't know LaTeX, I have enough of a computing background that I'm still
able to search LaTeX archives and figure out solutions - e.g. this
morning's was,
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\def\maketitle{\oldmaketitle\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
I'm sure not going to be able to get our regular Word users to switch over
if they can't do that sort of thing more easily by themselves. Then again,
it would be a big effort to produce a GUI layout creator, and I don't have
any reason to think it could be easily designed. Things like Nonpareil
might be better there.
-- Mark
