Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:50:46 -0800 From: iratus@home.com To: "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: iratus@home.com Subject: Re: lyx or something better? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991130205046.008e8100@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19991130210718.C10248@uberhacker.org>
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At 21:07 11/30/99 -0600, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: >Hello, I need to write a manual of sorts, and I was thinking of using lyx >for the typesetting. I want it to look nice but I want to have to "code" >my document by writing TeX macros or whatever myself... > >Does lyx seem like hte right program to use, or should I know about anything >else? > >Thanks, >Paul > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Paul D. Schmidt <pds@uberhacker.org> >UNIX Systems Programmer > "Trust the computer industry to shorten 'Year 2000' to 'Y2K.' It was this > kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place." -Anonymous >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Hello Paul-Lyx is a very powerful and mostly wysiwyg front end to Tex but you might also want to take a look at LaTeX in the raw, so to speak. The instructions you need to learn, for most kinds of documents are actually few in number and the number of already to go macros for all kind of formating numbers in the hundreds, if not thousands. You might want to take a look at the introduction to TeX and LaTeX called The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. It is available in any CTAN archive and is an excellant intro to the system. I use LaTeX in my work and for school with little trouble and great results. All of this is of course just my opinion and with out knowing more as to your exact needs and kind of documents involved, is offered as one persons experiance. Lyx is used by many with very good results, at least so I am told. Good Luck, Jeff Phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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