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 µ
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.