There's two types of tweaking: With environments and character styles, which I wholeheartedly endorse, and with inline ERT, which I caution against except in the \frontmatter.
SteveT On Thursday 02 April 2009 03:51:12 pm Yury Davidouski wrote: > 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 > > > > Steve Litt > > Recession Relief Package > > http://www.recession-relief.US
