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I think you mean Lyrix, which was a word processor that was UNIX based. At
a former job I was the word-processing trainer who taught Fenix. Lyrix,
Edlin, WordPerfect for UNIX and MS Word. I now train MS anything, Adobe
anything and our proprietary Software.
Barb--in WI with balmy weather.
On 3/24/07, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> René queried:
>
> "An earlier message mentioned lyx, which prompted me to have a look at
> it. What I'm curious to know, why use lyx when writer now exists (and
> the latter makes extensive use of xml technologies?
>
> I've done a quick web search for comparisons but couldn't find anything."
>
> I presume you mean OpenOffice.org writer?
>
> If so, they are two very different products. Writer is a direct
> competitor to Microsoft Word and other word processors. Lyx works
> differently--it is called a "document processor" or a WYGIWYM (what
> you get is what you *mean*) product.
>
> That means, among other things, that the Lyx interface does not look
> the same as the final output, for one thing. However, writing and
> applying styles is simple--but "freelancing" or modifying styles is
> very difficult. The writer is largely constrained to the style
> selection given by a particular stylesheet. The "fiddly bits" (as some
> of our British friends would put it) are handled by Lyx below the
> radar of conscious thought.
>
> Autonumbering, for example, is simple and flawless. Footnotes, too,
> are extremely simple. The application does not get in the way of
> content creation.
>
> While it is simple to see how the output would look in any format
> desired, while writing that is not necessary nor often particularly
> helpful.
>
> This may all seem very constraining--but I find the nearly complete
> focus on content creation is quite liberating--I needn't be concerned
> with presentation while writing. Modifying earlier versions of a
> document, too, becomes much simpler (hooray! no format overrides!).
>
> The real "fly in the ointment" is the relative complexity of creating
> new style sheets. That is something I have not yet broached, although
> it is on my agenda.
>
> As I have said, creating a similar tool that works with a given XML
> DTD would be very nice--especially if there is a tool that makes
> conversion from XML to LaTeX straightforward for output. There may
> already exist the latter, by the way, as I have not yet looked.
>
> David
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