On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 02:40, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> Fred Smith <fps@dividedsky.net> writes:
>
> > I've been attempting to move from openoffice to latex for some of the
> > documents I write because I really like the way that latex prints and
> > formats documents. I've been playing around with LyX as a latex editor,
>
> LyX isn't exactly a latex editor. LyX can export to latex. But I am
> pretty sure that LyX uses its own file format internally.
it does, yes, however lyx is almost entirely designed to be used to
create latex documents.
> > but i can't get it to export to ps or pdf without chaining through
> > "latex" and "dvipdf", even though according to lyx's documentation I'm
> > supposed to be able to export directly to ps and pdf from the file menu.
>
> Most Unix programs allow you to "print to ps". You might want to check
> that out under the printing section of the program.
lyx doesn't have any printing section at all.
>
> > In addition, the latex documents that lyx produces don't always parse
> > properly when i pipe them through latex, specifically whenever I embed
> > graphics.
>
> This is because you need to export to latex ("save as" or
> whatever). LyX files are stored in LyX format and need to be converted
> to latex.
right. i export my lyx document to latex and i still get tons of errors
when i try to run latex and then dvipdf on the exported latex document.
> I recommend writing latex directly by hand. It's really not that
> difficult. The main difficulty is the incredible lack of
> documentation. But google and mailing lists should be enough to get
> started. If not try some local libraries.
that's what i was told when i asked others the same question, and i
think it's what i'll do. someone else mentioned a latex book on amazon,
which i think i'll pick up.
> I use the emacs editor with the preview-latex package.
I never really got the hang of emacs as a text editor (i use vim and
occasionally nano), but i think i'll check this package out.
Thanks,
Fred
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Fred Smith <fps@dividedsky.net>
Divided Sky Internet
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