Re: LyX as a complement to Latex

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:13:34AM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:33:16 -0700
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have to wonder:  When will the other word processors (openoffice.org
> > writer and kword in particular) get with the interoperability and
> > ditch thier own specific formats in favor of the far more flexible and
> > usable LaTeX?
> 
> Because it isn't really far more flexible -- XML is far more flexible, and
> it's the way of the future.

I am not an experienced XML user and I have been using LaTeX for years
now.  I have tried a few documents with the docbook version of XML and
I went back to LaTeX.  I just have much more control in LaTeX and the
result of documents produced in pdf format from LaTeX (using pdflatex)
was superior than those produced from the XML documents (using
docbook2pdf).

Regards.
Johann
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