Posted by: Administrator
on August 28, 2006 10:27 PM
I use LyX, (<a href="http://www.lyx.org/" title="lyx.org">http://www.lyx.org/</a lyx.org>) which to me is the embodiment of substance over style. If you haven't seen it, LyX is a front-end for LaTeX. I recommend going through the included tutorial (which might take an hour or two) just to get up and running, but after that, you'll spend nearly 100% of your writing time on the logical structure and content of your document, and almost 0% on typesetting details such as setting up your table of contents, footnotes, bibliography, etc.
From the website:
LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
My kid used to mess around with all the 'toys' of OpenOffice, procrastinating instead of writing. Once I put him on LyX, not only did he buckle down and get to work, but his documents looked much better since the LaTeX engine generates far superior results than did his often questionable formatting choices.
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Posted by: Administrator on August 28, 2006 10:27 PMFrom the website:
My kid used to mess around with all the 'toys' of OpenOffice, procrastinating instead of writing. Once I put him on LyX, not only did he buckle down and get to work, but his documents looked much better since the LaTeX engine generates far superior results than did his often questionable formatting choices.
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