i think the examples are very illustrative on the issues of line-based vs paragraph-based layout and orphans. i would love to see an example of lyx' superior way of placing inserted graphics, tables, etc.
j�rgens example (great job!) should be put in the wiki straight away. moreover, i suggest taking some screenshots of selected places in the examples where the differences are most clear - the screenshots should be cropped to fit nicely in a presentation. best regards martin On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > can someone supply screenshots showing the differences of a given layout > > in word and in lyx. i think it would be very nice to draw peoples > > attention to small examples where the typesetting differences are > > clear: > > > > 1. line-based vs paragraph-based layout > > > > 2. floats > > > > 3. orphans > > I tried to create an example with LyX and Word, both showing a layout that > has > been tweaked quite a bit, using the same font (Palatino) and also mostly the > same settings. I tried to make the Word thing as good as possible, otherwise > the comparision would not be fair. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/example-lyx.pdf > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/example-word.pdf > > IMO, although the word document might be considered "o.k." at first sight, > that the LyX variant looks better. Why? The page "harmony" is better (due to > LaTeX page breaking algorithm), the interword spacing is better in general, > page breaking is more intelligent (two orphans in the word file), pdflatex's > "font expansion" feature is being used (i.e., the fonts are being > expanded/decreased insignificantly in some line to get a better line > breaking), and finally: character protuding, i.e., the lines with hyphenation > dashes are slightly shifted toward the margin, thus giving the impression of > a more "harmonic" margin; actually, LyX did less hyphenations, which might be > a result of the paragraph based line breaking algorithm. Then, LyX is doing a > better job with different spacings (we have a thin space at "e.g.", normal > interword spacing, and a larger space after punctuations (actually, this is > also possible with word, but it is seldomly used). And so on. > > Note also that the effort to produce such a layout in Word has been > significantly higher than in LyX. And I think the real hassle begins when the > document has >100 pages. > > J�rgen
