[arch-general] Lyx (was Re: Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch))

On 04/30/12 at 09:16pm, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:

On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:

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2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick :

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 Gour wrote:

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we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc.

To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or something else.

Sorry if I "jump in", but as a LaTeX user I usually suggest to stay away from Lyx. Basically it's an editor that attempt to make LaTeX work like Words, which IMHO it's not the best approach. I suggest to use an editor that doesn't try to hide how LaTeX works, and one of my favourite is TexMaker.

There is nothing wrong in using LyX. I don't know why you have that perception. It helps when your writing is qualitative rather than quantitative (in which case LaTeX and a more involved process can be adopted).

LyX is the only qt (or gtk) program I use in a regular basis, and the main reason why I type xinit at all -- another reason being that elinks sometimes does not make sense of webpages. Manolo