 | Jun 9 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Whilst I'm told this is excellent for writing, it's causing me nothing but trouble. I author scientific papers and I've learnt to use LaTeX normally. Anytime someone can't use LaTeX and can use only LyX it makes collaboration total hell. If you write documents on your own, fair enough, but if you write documents with other people who don't use LyX then raw LaTeX obviously supersedes it! Ultimately it's better to learn LaTeX. It really isn't that difficult.
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| Jun 9 2009 |
SAMPLER I agree that you must learn LaTeX if you write for a journal that has its own document classes and styles. Otherwise, why not use LyX's built-in LaTeX convertor?
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| Jun 9 2009 |
MARK EVERITT We've tried. It messes up all sorts of things though. In particular when you're passing a paper back and forth. You wind up with all sorts of crazy stuff going on. In plain LaTeX this happens much less and diffs are simpler.
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| Jun 9 2009 |
SAMPLER Good points. I agree.
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 | Dec 30 2008 |
MAX0913E This cool OpenSource Software deserves 5 Stars!
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| Mar 16 2008 |
AHOLLEN LyX (LaTeX) proofs to be a very nice text processor for educational scientists. They do a lot of statistical and qualitative data analysis, wright complex and long documents like theses and books. Compared to programms aiming for office use, LyX is reliable and easy to use. I.e. the integration of BibTex is nicer then EndNote@Word. There are a hand full pitfalls you have to know how to avoid. If LaTeX refuses the text setting into pdf, there are a few possible reasons for this. Best hints: - the error messages will highlight the problematic zone(s) - Use the the "go back" arrows in LyX, until your document is in a workable state.
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| Mar 21 2006 |
FOOZMAN In many ways better than LyX 1.3x; however, mine crashes every time I quit. This is not really bad, but it's not good either. However, I suggest that everyone who uses LateX or avoids using LaTeX give this a try. I have completely converted from LaTeX to LyX
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| Mar 4 2006 |
MIS EBLING Best peace of software ever! Congratulations to the team... | |
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| Jan 18 2006 |
CHAGRINS Thanks to the Mac developers of this - if it weren't for their hard and excellent work, I'd still be using LyX in X11. Thank goodness!
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| Sep 21 2005 |
JONATHAN BIRGE I followed every instruction, couldn't get it to fully work under Tiger. Kept giving me errors about missing classes, despite my LaTeX installation being in the standard Fink location. This thing needs some more work. You shouldn't have to run a shell script during a Mac install, anyway.
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| Jul 21 2005 |
STEVEN SKOCZEN 1.3.6 works great here. LyX, despite the previous reviewers' aversions to non-'mac-like' programs (because hand-coding is SO mac-like), is easy to use, and produces gorgeous documents. LaTeX for the rest of us. I've been using LyX for papers, letters, and most writing tasks for the past two years without problem. Great work!
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| Jul 20 2005 |
JOHN Plain doesn't work - "Missing TeX class". Tried reconfiguring, tried recreating a .lyx directory, reconfigured again. Nothing. This is supposed to be a bug *fix* release.
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 | Jul 20 2005 |
BENNETT HELM Sorry about that -- a goof in the installer script. It's fixed now in a new version of the installer.
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| Jul 23 2005 |
PARITOSH the binary still doesnt fix the issue. i hope u r talking abt the one on ftp.lyx.org
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 | Dec 9 2003 |
WILLIAM ADAMS Ronald Florence posted this to the LyX mailing list, thought it should go here as well: 1. No blanks in paths: this is a LaTeX issue, not a LyX/Mac issue. 2. The reLyX option in the file->import menu is listed as "Latex" and 3. The pull-down menues do sometimes misbehave (this is a Qt/Mac 4. Yes, as the HOWTO makes clear, teTeX is a prerequisite for a working LyX/Mac.
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| Nov 24 2003 |
FOOZMAN This is a great program for people who use LaTex for things like articles, but want a simple, yet powerful solution (not MS Word) for shorter tech documents. Lacks the customizability of LaTex, but also all the hastle. I am an academic. I use LaTeX for articles, and I use Lyx for homework assignments and exams. There are still some file problems. Don't put a ' ' anywhere in your file path. This is a very UNIXy program. People with UNIX/LaTex experience won't mind this. Others might
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| Nov 24 2003 |
AHO A nice Mac port of the overwhelming LyX-app. Works fine despite of some minor problems (for instance the pull down menues in the open dialog window sometimes open up in the upper left corner). Most serious bug as far as I can see is that in 1.3.3 the highly important reLyX option in the file->import menu does not exist. I hope a fix will be available soon.
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| Nov 24 2003 |
RONALD FLORENCE The reLyX import option is available under File -> Import as "Latex".
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| Nov 25 2003 |
AHO That is strange. Yesterday the Latex... option was DEFINITELY NOT there. I had to run reLyX from the terminal. However, now it is there. What a difference a day makes!?? Anyway, thank you, Ron.
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| Nov 23 2003 |
PETER LyX is a very powerful document processor, but don't make the mistake I did to just try an run the prog without TeTex already on your system. If you read the 'Read Me', you will see instructions for TeTex at http://www.18james.com/lyx_on_aqua.html It's a bit fiddly to get going, but once you've got the hang of it, there's no going back. And you can easily change the whole GUI langusge as well.
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