On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 > >Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office > >>fans. > >lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use. > >If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it > >might be faster to just use abiword. > > > I've never heard of lyx. Have to check it out. Would you consider a > 450 page book a big project? >
Think of Lyx as a GUI front-end to LaTex. You can use LaTex to do anything from a simple letter (no sections, no TOC), report, or a whole book. Its all about the structure of the document without worrying about the typographic details. Presumably, your 450 page book would have front-matter, title page, TOC, chapters, sections, etc, appendicies, bibliography, and perhaps an index. LaTex does all this. If you want a GUI, use Lyx. If you want to just use Vim, then use straight LaTex. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
