Comments on: LyX – the document processor

By: LyX – The Document Processor | Ahuka Communications

LyX – The Document Processor | Ahuka Communications — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:39:03 +0000

[...] Morten Juhl-Johansen Zőlde-Fejér has produced a primer on this which you can read at http://writtenandread.net/lyx/. It looks interesting, check it [...]

By: mjjzf

mjjzf — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:30:27 +0000

I completely agree - I would never recommend LyX to a LaTeX user, unless it was one of the frustrated ones! I actually find it difficult to get an overview of LaTeX from the code, which is why I am interested in a project like Gummi, which makes for more easily readable LaTeX editing.

By: Frakturfreund

Frakturfreund — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:43:43 +0000

Thanks for your great review!

My opinion about LyX: On the one hand, it ſeems to be a great way to bring many advantages of the TeX backend, especially the idea of logical markup, to ‘normal’ WYSIWYG uſers. On the other hand, the produced .lyx file looks more or less like PlainTeX, which feels for me as a LaTeX uſer a litle bit bloated (or at least unfamiliar) since i prefer even shorter ’code’ (like writing • inſtead \item with the alttex package)—but for Lyx to the rescue, the LaTeX export ſeems uſeable.

So all in all, i’m not ſure if one ſhould recommend LyX to a existing La/Con/whatever-TeX uſer, but for someone from the WYSIWYG world who’s ſcared of learning the totally different “writing source code” approach of TeX, it’s a really nice, uſe- and powerfull alternative to get “the beſt of both worlds”.

Finally a ſmall hint: There’s even a own lyx group at identi.ca, as i was recently told by ſomeone .

By: mjjzf

mjjzf — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:37:22 +0000

Glad to see it can be of use to you. In case you didn’t see it, like you I actually did a writeup on Jabref.

By: burrA

burrA — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:08:58 +0000

Thanks a lot. This is of great help to technological noobs like me.

By: Michael Sandahl

Michael Sandahl — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:51 +0000

It has been awhile since I used Lyx last, but this post helped remind me how useful it is, and how powerful it is when it comes to organizing a large document. I have used it when writing a book, and keeping track of chapters as well as annotations is much easier than with a word processing program. As I am back in school writing research papers I will be reinstalling Lyx to help the process. Thanks for the reminder of this great program.

By the way it also runs great on Windows.