Which is a hint to the answer to your question: Anything producing LaTeX would do. This includes anything rangingin from your favourite text editor to e.g. Scientific Workplace.
Hello Andre,
I was thinking about the average user (doctors, biological sciences - people who usually don`t do programming) who is using MS Word at the moment but wants a reliable and easy to use software for writing a scientific book with a lot of footnotes, pictures, cross references, TOC...
I am quite satisfied with Lyx though I`m using it only for 5 weeks now and have written only about 40 pages (with some floats and tables). And I like, that it is open source, because some parts of my thesis should be easily be copied and integrated in other papers (I will put it on my website as a lyx- and latex-file besides PDF). I had to discuss a bit with my professor before he accepted PDF instead of Word97 which he wanted to use with its "correction function" in our cooperation. Now he prints and corrects manually, then sending me his corrections (we seldom see us personally).
But Lyx (Qt for Windows) is still not there that I can recommend it to a typical Windows-User.
When I looked around I only found Framemaker (1600 Euro in its german edition). Here I learnt about Scientific Word (500 to 600 USD):
http://www.mackichan.com/products/whichproduct.html
Scientific Word seems very similar to Lyx. And it is based on Latex, too. So perhaps this product would be an easier migration path to the Latex-world than Lyx is at the moment.
One advantage of Scientific Word is, that it has an integrated export to RTF, connecting Latex to the MS-Word-World. I know, that this can be done with free software from Latex to RTF, but it is still not integrated within Lyx and I had no time to test this.
Has anyone first hand experience with Scientific Word? Is it more mature than Lyx 1.3.2?
Regards
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