Re: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)

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

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:21, Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote:
> At  6/19/2003 14:00, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> There's some good news on that ! I've just downloaded the rh9-qt Lyx and it 
> looks really good
> and moves really snappy !
> 
> 
> >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.
> 
> I completely agree. As a side note though, I've found it to be really easy 
> to learn, and emacs'
> tag list & major mode are quite helpfull. Well, perhaps next time !


If you're really interested, why don't you try downloading one of the
documents off the website, and do a quick conversion. Then we can get
an idea of what it should look like. It would give us a better idea
of what we'd be changing to, and it would give us a head start on a
conversion template.

	-Mark


> 
> >         -Mark
> >
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