On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, A. Scottedward Hodel wrote:
I've come to LyX from the opposite end of many of the people writing: I started with LaTeX, ideal for writing mathematical papers/bibliographies, and now find LyX a wonderful way to simiplify document formatting and preparation. I only use WYSIWYG editors for quick-hack items that things like MS Word can do more easily than LyX. (That's an increasingly rare event for me.)
This reminds me of my first couple of days with LyX. I have a friend who still does all his writing in plain TeX (and, yes, I've told him he's a masochist, but he's been using it for 20+ years). Anyway, as soon as I finished the LyX tutorial I sent him an e-mail raving about the ease of document creation. He sent me a challenge. He had spent two weeks formatting a resume for his daughter, who was graduating from high school and needed something for her college applications. I was sent the .pdf output and asked how long it would take to do the same think with LyX. Using the tutorial, Users Guide, and Reference Manual, I recreated the resume with LyX and sent it to him the next morning -- with the .lyx file. My friend was suitably impressed (and so was I, to be candid), but he still writes in plain TeX. :-) Can't teach that old dog new tricks. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | Accelerator <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
