Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:32:27 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Predrag Punosevac" <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office) Message-ID: <bef9a7920710072032h2f1ac289mef26a94f17b29fa4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4709A2D4.4080201@math.arizona.edu> References: <bef9a7920710071910p7d0d7265sfb45524e68f01fdd@mail.gmail.com> <4709A2D4.4080201@math.arizona.edu>
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> Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one
> like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile
lyx and I like it so far.
> You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my
> 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks.
>From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of
hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid
beyond belief.... now that being said since I do need to do the
following (I run a small software vendor that also does some basic CS
research):
* Business communications
* Technical writing (manuals)
* Scientific writing
and since all the more "traditional" (sorry I do not think of any
inline text language as being "traditional") word processing crash on
my machine (for programming I am very comfortable with nvi and have
never seen the need for anything else) that leaves stuff like the
embedded text langs, but for most stuff I don't want to have to write
a "program" (aka source code) for a "Dear Customer, Your trial period
is over" type letter (talk about over kill)... but if I use VI it
looks like crap so some type setting is needed
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