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Apples and oranges. LaTeX is a formatter. (Actually a full-blown interpreter, but it's generally used for producing typeset text output from command files.) U
by cstross 17y ago
Apples and oranges.
LaTeX is a formatter. (Actually a full-blown interpreter, but it's generally used for producing typeset text output from command files.)
Ulysses and Scrivener are an utterly different class of application; they're used for composition and editing of complex compound documents, with an emphasis on managing the structure (e.g. they both make it utterly trivial to change the order of chapters in a book, swap subsections within a chapter, write the text with no distractions, or mess around with the outline).
LyX is, effectively, a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX (that is handicapped by not being flexible enough to generate arbitrary LaTeX documents, and so it tends to be restricted to using a set range of LaTeX templates).
Might as well be comparing motorcycles and ro-ro ferries.
Finally: parading your lack of knowledge of classical mythology or modernist literature really doesn't do you any favours.
- crux 17y agoIt also bears mentioning that both Scrivener and Ulysses have their own pretty powerful LaTeX export functions, though I haven't thoroughly used either one.
- Locke1689 17y agoFirst, thanks for the information. I didn't understand from the site that Ulysses is actually more of an organizational tool. It wasn't until I read this[1] review article that I understood that. However, you yourself made a few mistakes. Technically, LaTeX is not a formatter, it is a markup language for the TeX typesetting system. In addition, it is actually not an interpreter (in the same way that HTML is not an interpreter). LyX is, as I said, a WYSIWYM editor for LaTeX. It is also allows LaTeX insertion and imports, so it should be arbitrarily flexible, not handicapped. Finally: parading your lack of knowledge of classical mythology or modernist literature really doesn't do you any favours. Hmm. Actually I have read Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, as well as the Odyssey. James Joyce is probably one of my picks for greatest authors who ever lived. My little remark was one of whimsy, commenting on a little phonetic wordplay, not an expression of ignorance. [1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/review/ulysses_is_a_heroic_writers_application/ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/review/ulysses_is_a_heroic_wr...