Steve,
This is what I am mainly interested in, having experienced how much
better a report looks produced in Lyx is compared to Word, its the
production of technical reports that I can see the biggest advantage.
But I admit, I had been thinking of trying to move everything over to
Lyx, as Rich has now done.
My experience is that LyX is really bad for ad-hoc type stuff.
Therefore, if
you move completely to LyX, I'd recommend you pick up VimOutliner
(http://www.vimoutliner.org) for "thinking on paper". If you use it
under
Linux or on Windows with Cygwin, you can incorporate non-text stuff
into your
outline via executable lines.
Another suggestion -- For the ultimate multi-format ad hoc docs,
use Kompozer,
a graphic web designer. It's available at http://kompozer.net/.
I use VimOutliner many hours each day, and I use Kompozer several
times per
week.
Mmmm, I think I will be doing well to get people using Lyx, without
introducing more alien programs to them !
But I agree about the usefulness of something like VimOutliner for ad
hoc stuff. I have used Emacs with org.mode for this, and I take on
board the issues of ad hoc stuff in Lyx.
Graham
