On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:16:50PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office
fans.
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use.
If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it
might be faster to just use abiword.
I've never heard of lyx. Have to check it out. Would you consider a
450 page book a big project?
Think of Lyx as a GUI front-end to LaTex. You can use LaTex to do
anything from a simple letter (no sections, no TOC), report, or a whole
book. Its all about the structure of the document without worrying
about the typographic details.
Presumably, your 450 page book would have front-matter, title page, TOC,
chapters, sections, etc, appendicies, bibliography, and perhaps an
index. LaTex does all this.
If you want a GUI, use Lyx. If you want to just use Vim, then use
straight LaTex.