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There is no reason why anyone should use LyX over TeXmacs in high school or undergraduate classes. TeXmacs is also better for academia but most universities, c
by amichail 11y ago
There is no reason why anyone should use LyX over TeXmacs in high school or undergraduate classes.
TeXmacs is also better for academia but most universities, conferences, and journals are behind the times... so graduate students and professors are still stuck with LaTeX.
- kzoo 11y agoI'm happy TeXmacs works so well for you! For my needs, LyX and LaTeX work better and so I choose to use them. It's nice to see a diversity of software that can be of use for everyone :)
- mastazi 11y ago> "[put anything here] is better" if the above sentence is not followed by: > "because [explain reason]" my BS detector state is usually set to 'Red Alert'.
- amichail 11y agoCheck out the video. Also, it's free so why not give it a try?
- detaro 11y agoThe video shows a GUI document editor. From what I've seen of LyX, it is also a GUI document editor, but I couldn't describe relevant differences.
- amichail 11y agoUnlike LyX, TeXmacs actually has WYSIWYG editing. LyX only provides a rough approximation of the output. Moreover, the real-time typesetter in TeXmacs rivals the output quality of TeX/LaTeX. In some ways, it is better.
- detaro 11y agoThanks, that's short and easy to understand, without knowing the two programs.
- mastazi 11y agoThanks I checked out the video and googled a bit, it seems it's a nice piece of software