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That's one of the things that appeals to me.  It makes me wish I was around people who used it every day.

Some time back, I needed to fix a badly mangled contract document and I started to go the TeTeX route but quickly got in over my head, so I used StarOffice instead and tried to use its structuring capability best I could (I just couldn't stop to figure out everything, although, in hindsight, the contract was doomed anyway).

- Jeff
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 11:24 am, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 November 2003 11:37 pm, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > > | The learning curve thing is a problem for working with Lyx, TeTeX, etc.
> > > | Barring the use of canned styles, the notion of designing a document
> > > | before typing word one is off-putting to many, I'm sure.
> > >
> > > I would gently suggest that such folk get over it.
> >
> > My gentle suggestions that pigs should fly still go unheeded.  People who
> > haven't seen any more than Word in their working lives typically go
> > apoplectic at a mere verbal description of Lyx.  That those same people
> > will practically go insane trying to get all of their paragraphs and
> > headings to line up with each other and get the font and point size uniform
> > after pasting from various sources is but a testament to the futility that
> > is life.
> 
> And people who use word processing programs just take it for granted that they 

> don't do math. Back when I was dabbling in real estate, I needed a program 
> that could give me nicely formatted equations. Try doing that in a word 
> processor! It took me about five minutes to learn how to do it in Lyx, and 
> everything looked great.
> 
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