I wanted to take the chance provided by one of the periodic "thanks for lyx" messages that Steve sends :) to tell my own success story. Next Friday I finally have the public defence of my doctoral dissertation. It has been written in LyX from scratch, and it's been a pleasure to do so. And, while the content is very debatable, it looks seriously beautiful. You guys appear in the acknowledgements and, as I guess you will not be reading it anytime soon, let me copy here the relevant passage:
I would also like to thank the online community that has made the actual process of writing and typesetting this dissertation so much easier, by developing the software and helping newbies like me to undertand and benefit from it. Among many others: the LyX developers that read the LyX-users mailing list, André Miede for creating the beautiful LaTeX syle I have used to typeset the dissertation, and Nick Mariette who ported it to LyX. Details on how to get the amazing set of tools provided by this group of incredibly generous people can be found in page 229. So, yeah, thanks for LyX. Manolo
