From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 14:51:14 IST
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> ms word). Can anyone tell me what's so good about it etc?
i havn't had a need yet to do much documentation. but i ever have i'll
use lyx.
good thing about it is: you write your text, you indicate via a
drop-down menu what each block of text is supposed to be (eg title,
author, section, subsection, etc..) and Lyx will take care of making
it look good.
ie it goes:
indicate text type
write
indicate text type
write
etc.. no faffling about with margins, justification, font sizes,
headers, etc.. etc.. Lyx will do that.
even better, from the Lyx document (or LaTeX doc with Lyx macros) you
can easily generate a variety of different types of docs: PS, PDF,
HTML, Text, even MS Word.
Also, there are different templates which give you different sets of
'text types'. (eg script, IEEE draft, etc.. etc..)
> Steve
--paulj
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