[geeks] Now what am I supposed to do with this?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:53:50PM -0400, R. Lonstein wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:42:27PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>     [snip]
> > For things that require carefull design, like resumes or
> > newletters, I haven't tried Latex. I have one resume in
> > Word, one in HTML, but I need to get a better one. I
> > haven't decided whether to do it in Latex, Corel Draw,
>     [snip]
> 
> I've tried it. It works, output is beautiful. The learning curve can be
> a little steep but there is good documentation, the CTAN (Comprehensive
> TeX archive network), newsgroup archives and many examples out there.
> 
> An easy way into it is LyX, which wraps a GUI around LaTeX. It renders
> the document on-screen in a semi-wysiwym (what you see is what you mean)
> format and you don't see most of the LaTeX tags. The keybindings are
> sort of emacs-like.

What I didn't like about LyX was that it uses it's own document classes rather
than the standard ones.  This caused a lot of confusion for me.  Maybe I did
something wrong.  I was very new with LaTeX at the time.  Probably should try
LyX again.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd