On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ronald Florence wrote:
> If this is a one-off project, you may find that preparing a layout file is
> more work than you can justify.
Ronald,
Probably all too true. On the other hand, while I've used LyX (lightly)
the past few years I've not learned LaTeX. To work directly with it may (or
may not) be an equivalent amount of work.
> At the risk of accusations of heresy . . .if you've already written the
> text and are comfortable with it, you might find it easier to export the
> LyX file(s) as LaTeX, and import them and the new .cls file into a good
> editor like emacs with auctex. It's a different style of working from
> LyX, but emacs or some other text editor might be well-suited to the fine
> formatting and tedious character-by-character massaging when you hear back
> from the book designer and copy-editor.
That's a very good idea. I can do the majority of writing in LyX then
switch to emacs and LaTeX. I cannot now determine which route is the
shortest to the desired destination.
Thanks very much,
Rich
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