On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:32 PM, William R. Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  After I have come to understand these tools a little better, I will try to
>  give a critique from the perspective of a WYSIWYG user.  To the
>  moment, I am encouraged with what I have found, though much of
>  the process of annotating source text seems at first use to be a bit
>  tedious compared to the process as implemented within Ventura
>  Publisher.  For instance, I can create a text style that applies to
>  individual paragraphs.  So, one style for normal text, another for quotes,
>  and still others for other types of content.  Having to manually add
>  ERT to each paragraph is one example of such tedious acts being
>  implementable in more effective means.

You should check out:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm. Steve is a regular
on the mailing list and has talked about creating text styles for LyX
and the website has documentation on how to accomplish this.

>  LyX doesn't seem to give me access to all the LaTeX source material
>  in the view source window.  This is one reason that I like to modify the
>  .tex file, and then import into LyX.  The use of templates shows great
>  potential but, it is not as easy to use as the concept suggests.

It should there is a toggle button to show 'Complete Source' which
should show you the 'complete source' :-}.

>  wrb

Cheers,
/Bob

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