[OS X TeX] LyX or TeXShop?

[Jens Noeckel]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> TeXShop is a text editor that provides a graphical interface to  
>>>>> the user's installation of TeX/LateX and whatever other TeX  
>>>>> derivatives he or she wants to use; has a companion viewer that  
>>>>> must be updated by typesetting; and requires that all TeX/LaTeX  
>>>>> etc. code be entered by the user. This means that someone can  
>>>>> create any document his or her TeX/LaTeX skills can provide.  
>>>>> LyX makes it easier for someone to create a document, provides  
>>>>> nice TeX-ified output, but is less flexible.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> I'd add that it
>>>
>>> LyX?
>>>
>>>> has facilities to help the user to add the commands. I.e., it is  
>>>> not necessarily completely manual entry.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> -schremmer
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> No, TeXShop. That was a comment on the statement that TeXShop  
>> ``requires that all TeX/LaTeX etc. code be entered by the user.''
>
>
> Ah! Command completion?
>
> I have yet to learn that but I did make up an awfully big number of  
> macros which I use an awful lot.
>
> And, by the way, there is also the LaTeX panel.
>

LyX 1.6 has command completion too (if you want it). It also has a  
LaTeX source view (with syntax highlighting), so you never have to  
feel too far removed from the original LaTeX. But you can also forget  
about it, if you prefer. You can work with LyX as if it were a LaTeX  
editor (using LaTeX commands and macros), or as if it were a "word  
processor" (using mouse actions, menus). There are by now so many  
useful features of LyX that I would recommend it to anyone provided  
they have some very basic LaTeX knowledge.

Jens