Re: gEDA-user: OT: Latex

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:51:31 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

> Lyx is pretty nice but those
> types of front-ends usually just get in the way.

You can do whatever latex wizardry you like and even plain tex in lyx. 
These portions just won't be interpreted on the fly and render verbatim 
on the screen. In addition, most latex commands are known to lyx. So you 
can type "\mu" and get a nice character  on the screen. This is one of 
the rare cases where you can get both: A visual intuitive GUI plus the 
full power of machine code.

This is not just blue sky talk, but from experience. I learned latex the 
hard way -- vi on a unix server to typeset the hand written notes of a 
mathematics professor. Yet, for my thesis I switched to lyx. The online 
graphical representation simply avoids a host of common errors. It makes 
navigation in the document so much simpler. 

Note, that lyx presents the document not quite like a word processor. It 
may look the same, but there are crucial differences. It treats the text 
more like a web browser. Line breaks are at the end of the window rather 
than where they would appear in print. Headlines look like headlines, but 
are not in the same font.

For non lyx editing of latex documents, I'd recommend kile. This is an 
editor with sophisticated syntax features aimed in particular toward 
latex.

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