I use Win7 with both LyX and TeXStudio.
The purist in me likes working with the source code of TeXStudio as it
provides a high level of precise control over the document. But, I really,
REALLY, prefer the WYSIWYM interface of LyX. I do a lot of outlining with
the enumerate environment, and doing it visually with the LyX interface,
using the <tab> key to move from one level to the next is as easy as pie.
With the pure LaTeX code, I get lost in the different outline levels within
the document and often forget to put in an "\end{enumerate}" somewhere. LyX
handles that for me.
LyX insulates me from a lot of LaTeX source code. That said, I still put a
lot of stuff into the preamble through the "document/settings" menu option.
Without LyX, I would have never had the patience to try to learn LaTeX. LyX
has provided the training wheels that allowed me to venture into the
typesetting world.
Virgil
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Heck
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 1:40 PM
To: Thomas Johansson
Cc: [email protected] ; Thomas Ernst
Subject: Re: Lyx vs Kile
On 11/05/2012 12:15 PM, Thomas Johansson wrote:
Hi
My name is Thomas, im helping a friend whos isn't particuarly home with
computers even though he uses Mathematica and Kile on a Linux CentOS
system to produce mathematical reports. He has some thoughts on moving to
Win7 environment but he has concerns regarding the WYSIWYM editor, because
he is used to struggle with the source based stuff :-)
So i short, are the any big differences regarding the potential output
and/or limitations connected to the use of Lyx compared to for example the
Kile editor?
In principle, you can do anything in LyX you can do in Kile, because you
can enter raw LaTeX into LyX if you wish. But that's not really the
point of LyX. Rather, this is:
How much time is it possible to save if the normal state of things is
struggling with formatting, commands etc in the source based stuff?
Tons. The whole idea is to hide the details of LaTeX from the user, so
that LyX works more like a traditional "word processor", though it's
also different in lots of other ways.
Richard
