On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Matej Cepl wrote:
That's the question -- are we really talking about
"typesetting/publication system" or authoring system? Or to say it more
bluntly -- do we want PageMaker/FrameMaker (LaTeX based) or more
author-friendly XMEtal/Amaya/Epic (LaTeX based, so far)? I am all for the
latter and moreover, I think that LyX is fundamentally poor substitute for
the former. If you want it, go for Scribus, or something like that.
Matej,
Scribus is desktop publishing and is ideal for graphics-heavy layout. Good
for magazines, advertising and the like. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I
see LyX as a very easy to use front end to LaTeX for the typeset output of
articles, reports, books and similar documents that are text-heavy.
Yes, but every application should have clear goal what it wants to
accomplish ("Do one thing and do it well."). IMHO, LyX was supposed to be
first-class authoring environment for scientific/scholarly writing. What
about that?
We agree completely. I guess that we just have different expectations of
what we want from from LyX. As long as I can take LaTeX classes (e.g.,
beamer, memoir) and use them within LyX, I'm happy. I know of no other
software that produces scientific/scholarly output as does LyX/LaTeX/TeX.
Rich
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