On Monday 19 June 2006 15:21, Jeremy Wells wrote: > I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) "no, you're wrong, > because..."; 2) "wait x number of years and we'll be there"; or 3) > "if you don't like coding, use a different tool."
From my experience from writing my thesis which LyX I'd say 1). When writing the thesis I first had to create a new layout file because I wanted to use the KOMA-script book class with the ntheorem package and the enumerate package. (Yes, I promised to upload this layout file to the wiki. I haven't forgotten.) Creating this layout file from the existing layout files took maybe half a day. Of course, for people who are not into programming it might have taken a bit longer, but using the documentation about layout files which is included in LyX and using an existing layout file to derive your layout file from it shouldn't be that difficult. Anyway, after I had created this layout file I wrote my thesis purely concentrating on the contents. This took several months. Then, at the end, I've spent maybe a week to make my thesis look like I wanted it to look. Adding an index for all the mathematical symbols appearing in my thesis required the usage of some ERT. But I did this at the end and didn't worry about that while producing the contents. So, in my case LyX clearly increased my productivity because I only had to do worry about other things than the actual contents for a relatively small amount of time. Regards, Ingo
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