From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Mon Mar 26 05:56:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 26 Mar 2001 13:56:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 55496 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2001 13:56:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2001 13:56:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr) (139.179.10.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Mar 2001 13:56:50 -0000 Received: from neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr (IDENT:robin@fen130 [139.179.97.69]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f2QE1u814402 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:01:56 +0300 (EET DST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Bilkent University To: Subject: Re: Marketing lojban [off-topic] Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:59:05 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032616590500.01346@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Turner On Sunday 25 March 2001 21:18, Jay Kominek wrote: > > LaTeX is not WYSIWYG, though there is a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX which > defeats the point of it. If by this you are referring to LyX, it isn't WYSIWYG, it's WYSIWYM. I find it a pretty good compromise between the tedium of continually setting fonts, tabs etc. on a conventional word processor and the tedium of writing raw LaTeX, HTML etc. > > The reason I use LaTeX is because everytime there is a list, or the > exercises at the end of a lesson, I don't want to have to fiddle with > doing WYSIWYG stuff. That is a waste of life. Instead when I make a > list, > > \begin{itemize} > \item Milk > \item Carrots > \item Veggies > \item Dog food > \item Cat litter". > \begin{itemize} > > and LaTeX ensures that every last list looks identical. True. And in LyX, all I have to do is click "Itemize". robin.tr