Sometimes, I think Zawinski just might be right.

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/21/05, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> writes:
> 
> > Y'know, I actually tried LyX about 6 or 7 years ago, before I tried
> > AbiWord. I should probably give it another go. It was a niftly little
> > program back then, and I imagine it hass improved. It had some rough
> > edges as I recall.

I played with it awhile ago too.  Probably the same time frame.

> I don't use it often, mostly just to update my resume once or twice a
> year :) It's gotten better, and I'm sure if you know enough TeX or
> LaTeX, then it's even better than I think it is, given that you can
> probably make it do what you want more easily.  Since I don't know
> either, I'm resigned to being occasionally frustrated on my twice
> annual forays into resume updating :)

I used LaTeX for my engineering labs in college on VMS ('87ish).  Back
when the fonts were AM (Almost Modern) instead of CM (Computer
Modern).  It was great that I could edit, preview, etc on my 768k DOS
machine, then up load the DVI to the VAX for dvi2ps for printing.  I
could print to 9 pin dot matrix in a pinch, but the VAX had a laser
printer.

Later I used my resume (& some work stuff even!) on DOS, OS/2, Unix,
Linux, MacOS 6/7.
When I was doing lots of LaTeXing, Lyx wouldn't import my resume
because of the res.sty format I used.

I got frustrated by the restrictions Lyx had to place on LaTeX then. 
Nowadays, I don't do much math documentation.

I redid my resume as a .doc (using OpenOffice!) because when you're
looking for work and there's 500 applications for that position, I
don't want to be the guy that's not following directions for a word
.doc.  They have word '97 or newer on thier desk.  They might not have
acrobat or a browser.  Remember when people went to the trouble of
using "nice paper" for resumes?  Dot matrix resumes got passed over
because they didn't look professional.  *sigh*

Anyways, I stopped installing 30-60 MB of TeX awhile ago.  If you're
doing any kind of math there's nothing better.  It's very good for
machine generated stuff too.  I would've loved Lyx back when I was
doing the edit -> compile to DVI -> view (n) then print cycle.  Now,
well, I'm finding I do everything in an email window....




> 
> > I was actually pondering writing my own TeX editor or giving LyX
> > another try even before reading your message. (The world really
> > doesn't need another text editor or word processor, does it?)
> 
> No, not really.  And now that I've found the Emacs 'muse' module,
> which can output raw text to html, ps, pdf, tex/latex, etc., I have
> even less reason to bother with anything but emacs :)
> 
> --
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul
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