Hello On 11/3/09, Graham M Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if something on Lyx/Sweave/R/Beamer might be useful. This > combination is unbeatable (and I think unique, ignoring working with > straight Latex) for anyone with scientific/statistics related > teaching/writing/presentations to do, but not immediately obvious how to get > working, especially with beamer (I am still trying to sort that out). > I was also thinking about Sweave support as a great selling point for LyX, so to speak. Another not immediately obvious feature is support in LyX for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS), including the open-source Maxima and Octave. For Sweave, a good reference would be Gregor Gorjanc's Rnews article [1].
Already mentioned, it would be informative to explain UTF8 support in LyX (the nuances of the variuos utf8* variants) and propose approaches to writing multi-lingual documents (including tough-nuts-to-crack, say, English+Greek+Russian). Also mentioned, exporting to Word (and the like).. Yesterday investigating (again) the issue of LaTeX to anything-other-than-pdf-or-ps-or-dvi, I stumbled upon this interesting overview [2] of various approaches. Good luck! Liviu PS When the book is made public, please consider dropping a note on this list. [1] http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2008-1.pdf [2] http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SweaveConvert
