Comments on: LaTeX, TeXnicCenter and LyX http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2007/12/latex-texniccenter-and-lyx.html The unexamined life is not worth living ~ Socrates Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kvetch http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2007/12/latex-texniccenter-and-lyx.html/comment-page-1#comment-484 Kvetch Wed, 28 May 2008 22:22:00 +0000 http://newblog.seanwhitton.com/2007/12/latex-texniccenter-and-lyx.html#comment-484 I use it seriously about once a year (Usually TeXnicCenter, but my cycle this year was mainly BaKoMaTeX, since that is what is installed in college, and I was using their computers for benchmarking).<br/><br/>I'm fairly proficient with churning out a roughly formatted article (must admit that some of the more complex is beyond me - and beyond my needs, so it will stay there), but images are an eternal bugbear (It took me three days to discover that my problems were coming form - of all things - a case mismatch. *mutter*)<br/><br/>Generally it's use is fairly resticted (unless you need really robust bibliographies or updating section/table names (which is IMO LaTeX's stength far more than the equation formatting) a word processor is probably better for most people.) - but for scientific writeups it is essential. <br/><br/>As to courseworks, when I did them I did it all electronically (admittedly not in LaTeX) and drew a single graph (with big \Delta x, \Delta y) to appease the markers. I use it seriously about once a year (Usually TeXnicCenter, but my cycle this year was mainly BaKoMaTeX, since that is what is installed in college, and I was using their computers for benchmarking).

I’m fairly proficient with churning out a roughly formatted article (must admit that some of the more complex is beyond me – and beyond my needs, so it will stay there), but images are an eternal bugbear (It took me three days to discover that my problems were coming form – of all things – a case mismatch. *mutter*)

Generally it’s use is fairly resticted (unless you need really robust bibliographies or updating section/table names (which is IMO LaTeX’s stength far more than the equation formatting) a word processor is probably better for most people.) – but for scientific writeups it is essential.

As to courseworks, when I did them I did it all electronically (admittedly not in LaTeX) and drew a single graph (with big \Delta x, \Delta y) to appease the markers.

]]> By: James Robson http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2007/12/latex-texniccenter-and-lyx.html/comment-page-1#comment-471 James Robson Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:39:00 +0000 http://newblog.seanwhitton.com/2007/12/latex-texniccenter-and-lyx.html#comment-471 Man, yeah. LyX is great. But LaTeX scares me, because to my eternal shame I still like a completely GUI expereience. It's one of those things where you want something to put into it purely because of how cool it is. Man, yeah. LyX is great. But LaTeX scares me, because to my eternal shame I still like a completely GUI expereience. It’s one of those things where you want something to put into it purely because of how cool it is.

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