Thanks to all who responded to my requests for help to get LyX working.
It's now functioning fine... but tex2lyx has problems translating my
sample file so...
Having looked at Latex stuff a lot over the past few weeks as a Latex
newbie, could I ask a (heretical!?) question? Why isn't LyX (or
something else) a fully fledged WYSIWYG word processor? I can see the
logic in how Donald Knuth designed things originally but I suspect a lot
of that was guided by the fact that computers then were not capable of
doing page rendering on the fly. But I don't think that restriction is
true anymore. So is there any fundamental reason why Yap, say, couldn't
be turned into a word processor... other then the obvious one of the
effort involved? Just wondering because Latex is a significant learning
curve and the tools are really rather rudimentary. WYSIWYG DTP programs
exist!
Peter
- Heretical question? Peter Rockett
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