Allan Rae wrote:
> "Unlike some of our competitors, LyX has moved word
> processing beyond the mundane and complicated user-placement
> method of page formatting to automated document processing
> and typesetting. LyX is ideal for preparing and publishing
> professional-quality documents ranging from textbooks and
> technical reports, to articles for submission to professional
> journals and conferences, to letters and faxes.
OK, but a huge percentage of Word and WP users could care less about
textbooks, technical reports, articles for submission to professional
journals and conferences.
Letters and faxes they can already do, but I think Richard's MM stuff
could be a big win. Newsletters are also a very big issue, and they do
need MM. I am also looking into a newsletter .cls. Richard also raises
the font issue. Yes, Word and WP users abuse fonts, but I don't think
that making it very difficult is the answer.
Another idea is a Genealogy.cls, but I really don't know anything about
that one.
> LyX is able to provide professional typographic results by
> utilising the LaTeX (pronounced lay-tech) typesetting system.
> LaTeX has been used for many years in the production of
> textbooks with complex mathematics and provides exceptional
> support for automatically placing tables, figures, graphs
Think about placing photographs, cartoons, advertissments. Look at the
mail; LyX is already getting the academic users, but I will be very
happy if I never have to write another journal article:) It's story
telling time.
BTW, for all of you arguing about who's the oldest, my eldest
granddaughter just informed me that I am an impending greatgrandfather.
--
Garst
