Yes, there is a learning curve, but so is there a learning curve with any program that does non-trivial word processing. LyX is a nearly WSYWG editor for LaTeX (in fact. so perhaps the next time you update your website you could add: Linguistica Atlantica Another Canadian journal, and I landed it by word of mouth. And to see it set in the format of your favorite journal is pretty cool. In babel, one way to get a single word typeset in another language is something like this. MikTeX now includes an 'options dialog box' enabling you to select the language of your choice, just dont forget to hit the 'update format files' button Add to your LaTeX document header: usepackage. You can't imagine how much better a true typeset page looks when compared to the usual output from a word processor. Icelandic language (using Babel with MikTeX or teTeX) These files and procedures are now part of the MikTeX package, as of version 2.0.
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The payoff comes when you hit Command-R and in a few seconds your default PDF viewer opens with a beautifully-rendered professional-looking page. But, as the developers like to say, this is What You Get Is What You Mean, or something like that. (I'm a stickler for Mac-like behavior, and the Qt framework has some annoying behaviors but it's a huge, huge improvement over the X system.) The on-screen appearance is surprisingly WYSIWYG, which is helpful in long writing sessions. The developers have worked hard to make this non-Linyxy, porting it to the Qt framework to give it a fairly Mac-like appearance. This is useful for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is submitting work to different places which require different layouts.
The ability to completely change the look of your document with a couple of mouse clicks is amazing. The first thing you have to get use to is, this isn't Microsoft Word.
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You don't have to learn to code LaTeX but if you know it already, you can always embed it to your heart's content. This is hands down the easiest way to make structured documents and have them typset with the uber-capable LaTeX system. I'm just getting up to speed with LyX after turning up my nose at it a few times over a few years. For whoever wants to use latex for publishing (or for collaboration), there is no way to escape learning it in the end and using lyx will simply delay the inevitable. I still recommend it as an educational tool for latex or for the people who are not very demanding with their documents (i.e. And I say this after using lyx for 10 years. Update: 2010 Sept: links in post updated. maybe try: Tools->Preferences->language-> then uncheck the use babel box. The same applies for files created with LyX 1.6.10 or older that are saved with LyX 2.0.2 or future.
It is still perfectly usable of course, but add this all up and a modern latex editor with live preview seems to be more practical these days. Update: Michael says remove dependence on babel in LyX setup seems to work. This has the side-effect that files, created with LyX 2.0.2 or future, using a Springer document class, will not be compilable with LyX versions older than LyX 2.0.2.
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For the mac there is also the problem is that it is not retina ready and this does not seem to be a priority for the developers (also understandable since it requires an update of the toolkit and all the bindings and probably that is too complicated). But this is understandable as there can be no perfect GUI. The disadvantages is that not everyone uses it so if you collaborate with anyone who doesn't use it (usually your boss) you have to switch to latex and also sometimes in order to publish you need to make micro-adjustments, which are usually one command in latex but require a lot of drilling in lyx. Using a different font size on a global level will affect all normal-sized text as well as the size of headings, footnotes, etc. Very handy if you need to get data from a proprietary format into one that you can fiddle with, or, for example, convert to kml to view on Google Earth. It does what it says: simple conversion of GPS files between formats. My main usage case was to typeset notes with lots of math and also prototype journal articles. Changing the font size in LaTeX can be done on two levels, either affecting the whole document or parts/elements of it. GPSBabel has been part of my GPS Apps folder ever since I got a Mac capable GPS. To translate a label, we have to redefine the environment.This is a very nice document preparation tool. Labels are often part of a LaTeX-environment.
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