It turned out to be easy to use LyX for bridge articles.
All I had to do was put 6 LaTeX statements into the preamble:
1. 4 \renewcommands for the suits of the form:
\renewcommand{\c}{\(\clubsuit\)}
2. A savebox called \NESW to draw the frame around the player
positions N E S W
3. A \newcommand{\hand}[4]
to create a minipage with the 4 args (of the form: AKQ53 )
with their suit symbols
Then in the lyx doc, all you have to do is create tables
and populate the appopriate cells with ERT. e.g
\hand{AKQ53,AK3,64,642}
and put \NESW in the middle.
It is brilliant and easy!
Now if only I could get pdfscreen to work with LyX!
John O'Gorman
