On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 1. The fonts in a PDF can look ratty / ragged on the screen in some cases.
> There's a whole bunch of stuff about this on the LyX web site in the FAQ,
> but the bottom line is that it's a non-trivial exercise to get it right,
> and not a simple "plug and play" operation. I'm told they print fine, but
> I rarely print anything these days.

   I use Palatino (and the math font version) and haven't had any issues for
years. My book is typeset with Palatino.

> 2. If you use the Beamer (aka latex-beamer) tools with LyX for
> presentations, there are things you can do that will crash PDF production
> in LaTeX with totally non-informative error messages. You basically have
> to divide your document up into small chunks and
> *constantly* test-make PDFs, and undo what you just did if it crashes.

   Never had this happen. If a frame is not closed there are issues, but with
experience it's easy to figure out where we screwed up and go fix the
problem.

> 3. I have not been able to get an automated Word format document out of
> LyX, even though it's *supposed* to be possible. HTML export is pretty
> good, but then you have to manually import the HTML into some other tool
> and format it.

   Never done either of these. If I need to send someone Microsoft-formatted
processed words I use OO.o and send them the .doc export; if I need HTML I
write it with emacs. Horses for courses, is my approach.

Rich

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