Me too. It's also extremely flexible, at the cost of not in fact always generating correct LaTeX and sometimes needing a whole lot of debugging. I use LyX beca

Me too. It's also extremely flexible, at the cost of not in fact always generating correct LaTeX and sometimes needing a whole lot of debugging. I use LyX because, although I'm a programmer and perfectly capable of littering my text with braces, somehow that completely ruins my writing flow. I need the text I'm writing to look clean and a bit formatted (big text for headings, italics and suchlike) -- and not like code -- to get anything meaningful down on paper.