Re: Typesetters?

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- George Bonser wrote about "Re: Typesetters?"
| On 24 Aug 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
| 
| > KLyX is just LyX for the KDE environment.
| > 
| > All these are especially superb for scientific writing, but also highly
| > usable for normal text.
| > 
| 
| One additional note, people familliar with Adobe FrameMaker will pick up
| on LyX rather quickly. It uses the same concepts of styles and such. Make
| a change in a type of heading and all heading of that type in the entire
| document adopt that style. It knows about things like books, chapters,
| etc.
| 
| It is sometimes a difficult concept for users of word processors such as
| Word to understand. With Word, you specify the format of areas of text.
| You might highlight a line and click the bold button and it makes that
| text bold.
| 
| With LyX you assign a style to that line and then assign attributes to the
| style. For example, you say this is a heading and headings are bold. Now
| whenever you assign the heading style to a line, it will be bold. Change
| the attribute for headings to bold+italic and all lines of the style
| "heading" in the entire document are changed at the same time.
| 
| It is a subtle difference that once mastered, makes producing documents
| much easier.
| 

Just to clear something up, not to start a flame war, =).

This type of formating is present in Word as well(and always has been)
and it is also called styles.  You can define and modify any type of
style you want and all text with that style will have that formating.


-- 
Brian 
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