On Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:22:49 AM Richard Heck wrote: > As Helge sometimes points out, this is > important. You can install LyX without LaTeX if you like (say, on > a netbook with a 4GB SSD), and it will work just fine for editing. > > Richard
And in my opinion LyX is one of the most productive long-document editors the world has ever seen. Little things like rejecting double- spaces and double-newlines make me much faster as I worry less about mistakes. Its low-crashability and low-corruptability make for fast, confident working conditions. Its steadfast adherance to styles-based authoring makes it easy to build documents the right way. LyX's beige default background is easy on the eyes and yet easily contrasty enough for bad vision -- I should know, my vision's horrible. And, in spite of all the publicity, LyX is WYSIWYG enough that a single glance tells you which pieces of text are special styles. Contrast that with old WordPerfect 5.1, where the whole doc was courier, and if you wanted to see any evidence of styles you'd need to do the WordPerfect equivalent of LyX's View->PDF. Oh, one more thing. I'm now using LyX to author Kindle books -- no PDF involved anywhere. It goes like this: LyX->eLyXer->metadata tweaks->Kindlegen->Upload But LyX is such a great editor, and so styles adherant, that it was the obvious choice. I tried editing eBooks in Sigil for a little while, but that was a migration to Pity City. LyX is a GREAT editor. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
