Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

[USM Bish <bish@nde.vsnl.net.in>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:40:34PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu> writes:
> 
> > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote:
> > > 
> > > > From: Kent West [mailto:westk@nicanor.acu.edu]
> > > 
> > > > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics)
> > > > > may fit the bill,
> > > 
> > > > Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document
> > > > format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their
> > > > homework in as .DOC format.
> 
> What about LyX.
> 
> -- Andre

Lyx is only a GUI frontend to Latex and takes
away the pains of hand coding all the Latex
tags and keywords.

USM Bish