From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 21 20:13:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23978 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23973 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id UAA21461; Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:10:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:10:43 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books In-Reply-To: <19971222130017.30553@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As may be evident, I don't like TeX. It's not for want of trying; I > used it exclusively for several years. Troff was like a breath of > fresh air. Don't take this as a criticism of lyx; I haven't tried > lyx, and if it hides the obscenities of TeX well, it could be quite > useful. Greg, Lyx mostly hides the obscenities of TeX. It's an almost WYSIWYG gui for TeX without having to know TeX. I believe the documentation states that Lyx makes the computer do the nasty work of formating and manipulating the final output of the printed document to allow the author to concentrate on writing. Unfortunately it is still under development, but I'm really looking forward to the day when it settles down and becomes a robust product. It doesn't seem to have the bloat that other text-processing gui's have. I really think you should try it. - burton -