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When I wrote my PhD thesis (the closest thing to a book I've ever worked on), I used LyX and I loved it. All the power of LaTeX, with a usable UI. When you're d
by ihaveajob 2y ago
When I wrote my PhD thesis (the closest thing to a book I've ever worked on), I used LyX and I loved it. All the power of LaTeX, with a usable UI. When you're done, just apply the publisher settings and you're out!
- WillAdams 2y agoBack when I did composition for STEM publishers, the one manuscript I got in LyX stands out as the cleanest, and easiest to work with --- added two custom packages: - first loads some packages and defines all the customization commands to do nothing - second defines the customization commands and applies the formatting as specified by the publisher Edit the LaTeX text, add customization commands for shortening/lengthening paragraphs, &c. for balancing pages and tweaking float placement --- make PDF, send to printer, then at the end of the project, comment out the second package line and return the updated source to the author for their next edition. That said, my current books are being done using: - GitBook: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing - using Literate Programming completely in lualatex for coding up the OpenPythonSCAD module: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview - in normal LaTeX (re-setting of a translation of an Old English poem) and I look forward to a future project working in LyX, since the new 2.4 looks _amazing_.