On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:17:41PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans. > > I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I want > html output option). Is there anything that you _can't_ do with Lyx > that you can do with LaTex?
Don't take my word for it but the short answer is no since as far as I can remember for stuff that it doesn't do out of the box, LyX lets you imbed LaTeX native statements in your document. But to answer your second question (should I choose LyX over LaTeX) unless you absolutely want something that feels a bit like Microsoft Word I would not bother with LyX. I did have some familiarity with markup languages but it only took me a few hours to figure out how to put together a basic native LaTeX document. It took me much longer to customize LyX to my liking. As always, YMMV. A few good (?) reasons to choose LaTeX: With native LaTex you will be using your editor of choice .. you won't have to teach your fingers new habits. Worth a thought if you plan on using LaTeX extensively. Overhead and portability. Recent versions of LyX use the KDE/QT gui. With native LaTeX all you need is an editor and LaTex. If you are a vim user & insist on working in something gui you may want to take a peek at this: http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net Lastly, another thing to consider before you decide: Despite the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] is mostly a LaTeX support list and it is both very friendly to (serious) novices and very responsive. I'm not sure LyX has the equivalent. HTH Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
