Hi Steve,
I still find myself tweaking LyX formatting a bit at stages closer to
finishing of the project writing, but it's just maybe I am not proficient
enough with it yet.
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:37:56 +0100, Steve Litt <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all,
Last night, at Greater Orlando Linux User Group (GoLUG), I a gave a
presentation on using TeX for simple tasks like printing shipping
labels. As
you can imagine, this was mostly an anti-Microsoft crowd. Interestingly,
several were already TeX or LaTeX users, and several criticized MS Word
for
its easy facilitation of fingerpainting. Several also mentioned that with
LaTeX you can concentrate on content and not worry about form.
Just the same as I do on the LyX list, I brought up the fact that if you
want
to, you can do styles based authoring on MS Word just as easily as on
TeX or
LaTeX or LyX, and in fact I've written a complete book in WordPerfect
5.1 and
another in MS Word, using nothing but styles. And of course a debate
ensued :-)
But then one guy brought up an irrefutable point which I think might be
an
outstanding talking point of LyX. He said that wordprocessing documents
often
get so messed up, format wise, that they can't be salvaged without
saving to
text and reformatting everything. I've certainly seen such a MS Word doc
-- I
think we all have.
With TeX or LaTeX or LyX, almost always coding errors immediately make
the doc
uncompileable, so you see it right away. The one exception is when a
document
class silently reverts to the default, and I showed how to prevent that
here:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm
So I think one LyX talking point to add is that with LyX, you seldom get
docs
that format themselves into uselessness.
SteveT
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