Comments on: LaTeX for the Average Person http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/2010/07/19/latex-for-the-average-person/ My nerd blog Mon, 28 May 2012 03:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: drcouzelis http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/2010/07/19/latex-for-the-average-person/#comment-4 drcouzelis Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:28:25 +0000 http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/?p=5#comment-4 Thank you for the information. I look forward to using LyX, and LaTeX in general, more and more in the future.

I had heard about creating slideshows with LaTeX but haven’t tried it yet. That reminds me, though, that I’m disappointed in the lack of websites comparing the looks of LaTeX and non-LaTeX documents, especially since looks are one of its biggest benefits in my opinion. Maybe that would be a good topic for a blog post in the future. ;)

]]> By: shemz http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/2010/07/19/latex-for-the-average-person/#comment-3 shemz Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:50:31 +0000 http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/?p=5#comment-3 I think there are two reasons which influence popularity of any product in general (and especially a software product). Its ease of use from an end-user point of view, and second the marketing effort put behind to sell that product. In my view, Lyx is as easy to use as it can get. But the problem is that many mature and efficient open source projects were started after M$ had already captured the market with its aggressive marketing strategies. Anyway, Lys has a strong user community and is being heavily developed with new features constantly being added to make full use of Latex; so enjoy using it. Btw Latex (and Lyx) can also create beautiful slideshows, and in a more elegant way than powerpoint. May be you should look at it if you are still using powerpoint or OO.o impress.

]]> By: Cyrusm http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/2010/07/19/latex-for-the-average-person/#comment-2 Cyrusm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:40:17 +0000 http://archlinux.me/drcouzelis/?p=5#comment-2 LaTeX is good stuff. High learning curve aside, it is nice to be able to edit documents using any text editor (I use vim) and output professional quality documents. I’ve gotten complements many times before for my LaTeX reports and articles.

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