Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2004 09:27 PM
I started out using LyX when writing my thesis, but when I suffered a 486SX/33 laptop with 8 MB RAM for a short period, I couldn't even use X11. So I exported my work from LyX and continued my writing in Vim and LaTeX. It was a great way to learn, because the learning curve was so smooth.
I eventually ended writing the rest of the thesis in Emacs with Auctex after using OS X for a while. Terminal.app didn't support Norwegian characters æ, ø, and å, so Vim was out of the question, and the most popular OS X LaTeX editors were crap. So as a by-product of starting with LyX, i learned both LaTeX and Emacs (I'm a Vim fan by nature, but Emacs is great for TeX). And of course, my thesis looked excellent (and was excellent, I got an A).
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Re:plain old LaTeX
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2004 09:27 PMI eventually ended writing the rest of the thesis in Emacs with Auctex after using OS X for a while. Terminal.app didn't support Norwegian characters æ, ø, and å, so Vim was out of the question, and the most popular OS X LaTeX editors were crap. So as a by-product of starting with LyX, i learned both LaTeX and Emacs (I'm a Vim fan by nature, but Emacs is great for TeX). And of course, my thesis looked excellent (and was excellent, I got an A).
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