Re: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 13:32, Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote:
> At  1/3/2003 10:02, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
>          Most conferences now provide both latex and Word styles; I can go 
> through the proceedings to a conference, and tell which papers were written 
> in        latex, and which in word,
> >         because the latex ones look better.
> >
> >         -Mark
> >
> 
> Just felt like completely agreeing with that.
> As a side note, it *might* be easier to use something more, err, facile, 
> such as sgml/xml docbook. The advantages of doing so
> are that you get the best of latex (really good looking papes), as jade's 
> engine produces latex, while giving john doe the ability
> to use any xml editor out there.
> On the other hand, there's a wysiwyg editor for latex, namely www.lyx.org - 
> it's open source and quite powerfull i belive.

Lyx is quite powerful, but it's also essentially Unix specific. The GUI
for it is built using a bizzare library called XForms, which generates
ugly, slow UIs. There's a QT port in progress, but as of my last try
(about 2 months ago) the QT version was not usable.

As for xml/docboox... It's somewhat tempting, except for the minor fact
that none of us actually know it. Given how utterly crushed we all are
with the current workload, learning a totally new syntax for writing
documents is just not in the cards.

	-Mark

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