At Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:43:20 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:22, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > Exactly! I sure don't want wysiwyg which, in my view, is for people > > who want a glorified typewriter. I want a typesetter that knows more > > than I do about how to prepare documents that look good! And LaTeX or > > LyX are perfect for that! > > Oh oh, here it goes again :-) > > In my opinion, LyX *is* WYSIWYG to a significant degree. LyX content > in LyX looks very much like its PDF output. Typefaces, sizes, > weights, slants, margins all look similar to the eventual output.
But these are part of what I "mean"... In any case, it's the simple things that matter. For instance, if I make the window wider, the text reformats on screen so I can see more paragraphs... Do the same in a wysiwyg tool and all you get is more empty space in your window. But to each his own so if you want to think of LyX as wysiwyg, then so be it! The important thing to me is that LyX does the job so much better than any other tool I use (except maybe emacs... ;-).
