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Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)



On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:17:41PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans.
> 
> I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I want
> html output option).  Is there anything that you _can't_ do with Lyx
> that you can do with LaTex?

Don't take my word for it but the short answer is no since as far as I
can remember for stuff that it doesn't do out of the box, LyX lets you
imbed LaTeX native statements in your document.

But to answer your second question (should I choose LyX over LaTeX) 
unless you absolutely want something that feels a bit like Microsoft
Word I would not bother with LyX.  I did have some familiarity with
markup languages but it only took me a few hours to figure out how to
put together a basic native LaTeX document.  It took me much longer to
customize LyX to my liking. 

As always, YMMV.

A few good (?) reasons to choose LaTeX:

With native LaTex you will be using your editor of choice .. you won't
have to teach your fingers new habits.  Worth a thought if you plan on
using LaTeX extensively.

Overhead and portability.  Recent versions of LyX use the KDE/QT gui.
With native LaTeX all you need is an editor and LaTex.

If you are a vim user & insist on working in something gui you may want
to take a peek at this:

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net

Lastly, another thing to consider before you decide:  Despite the name
texthax@tug.org is mostly a LaTeX support list and it is both very
friendly to (serious) novices and very responsive.  

I'm not sure LyX has the equivalent.

HTH

Thanks,

cga




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