OT: writing a book, creating a community, etc....

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>
> I also gave up on LYX and Latex, it (Lyx) is buggy and annoying as 
> hell, you still ended up fight Lyx trying to get things to layout, I 
> don't care too much for their mantra. The few times, I would have an 
> error when trying to view, and had to undo the last few edits to 
> figure out where the dam stupid error was coming from. I got paranoid 
> with my writing as it started to get long that I would type, save and 
> try to view. It was not the most effective way to work. Trying to add 
> sample code was annoying, never mind trying to add picture with 
> layout, I didn't even bother.
>
I did try LyX in the past, a few times, and wasn't happy either. 
However, my approach to the problem was different (like with HTML):
learn LaTeX rather, well, and do not bother about GUI interface to 
either of them (HTML or LaTeX). I am probably not a super duper 
specialist on LaTeX (in case of HTML - who knows) but I do now enjoy 
using it like a hell. And yes, I am used now to write my own notes in 
LaTeX, non stop. What a saving of time! Later on when I want to prepare 
an article for publication, I have a lot of the work done already.

BTW, there is TeXmacs as a possible GUI to LaTeX. I have little 
experience with it so will not comment more but it seems worth of 
attention and investigation. It is good in particular in computation 
environment, because it is designed to integrate with several open 
source advanced algebraic packages.

zb.
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