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

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi ZB, thanks for pointing out Texmacs, I will take a look at it.

> zb.
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