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[James P. Kinney III]

The learning curve for tetex/latex is steep! Lyx is a great front-end.
For the kde crowd there's kylyx or klyx (kan't remeberk :). There is
nothing that can compare to the output ability of the *tex processing.
There are hundreds of style formats available for everything from PhD
thesis formats for various schools, to governement documents and
greeting cards. Couple it with bibtex and it will do everything needed.
It's just $*^@ HARD! the two frontends help a bunch. 

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 16:55, jeff hubbs wrote:
> This might not be of interest to everyone, but a few months ago when I 
> was researching document generation possibilities under Linux, I came 
> across Lyx, which uses TeTeX.
> 
> When you're running Lyx, you only deal with content, not format - you 
> deal with format in some kind of definition file or template.  But, it 
> means that if you have to kick out some killer document like a thesis or 
> a Government contract, you can actually create the format and then fill 
> it in with text - and everything will line up just like it's supposed 
> to, in the right font, the right size, etc.  You don't explicitly set 
> the parameters of each and every hockin' letter like in Word or 
> StarOffice.  It convinced me that anyone who works with those kinds of 
> documents routinely would benefit if they climbed that learning curve.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
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