On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:30:54 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>____/ Linonut on Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:51 : \____
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>> * flatfish fired off this tart reply:
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>>> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:40:58 +0000, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>The concept of Lyx is better overall - it's much more layered than the
>>>>office-suite approach.
>>>
>>> Isn't that, Lyx, what Moses used to create the 2 tablets of stone
>>> containing the 10 commandments?
>>
>> Nah. LyX (or, more likely, a non-GUI using a programmer's editor and
>> TeX) is what many Addison-Wesley technical-book authors use to generate
>> and typeset their books for the publisher.
>
>Of course. I've been on the LyX mailing list for years and there are many
>publishers there, as well as independent book authors (my thesis template is
>still being downloaded several times a day). LyX is a front end to LaTeX,
>which is Swiss army knife to these people and the industry as a whole (some
>use proprietary tools).
>
>As usual, Gary Stewart doesn't know what he's talking about.
You guys wouldn't know a joke if someone put a sign on it.
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