[Pipet Devel] LaTeX etc. WAS executing a network script

J.W. Bizzaro bizzaro at geoserve.net
Tue May 9 23:06:31 EDT 2000


Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> I think LyX is the easiest word processor (although technically, they say it's
> not a word processor), though LaTeX is more standard. The best would be to be
> able to use both, as Brad suggested, but I see one problem. You can export from
> LyX to LaTeX, but if you modify the LaTeX file, you can't put it back in the LyX
> document. There's a LaTeX to LyX converter (called ReLyX), but I don't think we
> should rely on it too much (it must be fault-free). Any thought on this?

ReLyX comes standard with the latest version of LyX and is how LaTeX "imports"
are handled.  I don't know how well it works.  (BTW, LyX was considering using
LaTeX as its file format - no import/export and no .lyx files.)

I am in the same boat with Jarl regarding command-based text formatting
systems like LaTeX/TeX and DocBook: They would take too long for me to learn,
and I have many other things to do :-)  So, I would prefer something with a
GUI front like LyX.  Wasn't someone working on a GUI front for DocBook?

Jeff
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