On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote:
In my personal opinion, one would have to have rocks in their head to use LyX for a 5 or 10 page document. In the time it takes to figure out how to change one style (Environment) in LyX, you could have completed the whole task in MS Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice.
Perhaps your opinion is based on your practice of self-publishing books. Take a look at my web site (follow either the What's New or Publication links) and you'll see a bunch of 5-10 page articles written in LyX. Not only was it quicker and easier to write them with LyX, but the pdf output cannot be matched by OpenOffice.org's writer, AbiWord, or any other word processor. So, whiile I might have rocks accompanying the extra holes in my head, my use of the application is obviously vastly different from yours, so our opinions of the type of writing for which LyX is best suited also greatly differ. Other than the occasional, odd-ball need, I use the standard environments just as the LyX/LaTeX authors designed them. I suspect from your posts that what you really need is a personalized TeX macro system (neither LaTeX nor ConTeX) and your own GUI interface to it. Given the apparent original post (which I did not read), I run LyX on my 7-year-old Toshiba Portege 3025-CT. It has a 300MHz Pentium-MMX processor, 96M RAM (the maximum allowed), and a 6G hard drive. So, LyX would be ideal for someone writing a thesis. However, you are correct when you note that comparing LyX/LaTeX to Microsoft's Word is an invalid comparison. They're two completely different applications. 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
