__/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 22:05 \__
> Even I find it way too much. Why can't the kids be started on Lyx?
>
> http://www.edubuntu.org/images/tour/ooweb.png
> http://www.lyx.org/about/main_window.png
> http://www.lyx.org/LGT/84.png
>
> Lyx has an even cuter logo
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Lyx_logo.png
>
> And Lyx automates a lot of waste that the kids would put into
> formatting and instead let them concentrate on the real substance of
> education. It also, LaTeX being of professional and academic quality in
> its output, would put them on good footing for the future.
I warmheatedly agree. I have been using LyX since I was 19 (never touch
Office/Word-type bloat) and it barely involved a learning curve. There are
some 'tricks' for getting what you see (WYSIWYG backwards), but all in all,
here you have a free, interoperable program that produces beautiful
documents with semantics (structure).
Best wishes,
Roy
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