[OS X TeX] wyswyg-TeX for Linux?

Christopher Menzel cmenzel at tamu.edu
Sat Jan 19 20:09:16 EST 2008


On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:59 PM, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:09:41PM -0600, DAVID FILE wrote:
>> My professor asked me what was the best interactive latex for  
>> Linux...he uses
>> a Mac but would like to pass on to his students.
>
> LyX is quite useful, although a bit constrained for some uses (which  
> is the reason I swtiched from LyX to vim/LaTeX-Suite, which doesn't  
> fit your bill since it's not WYSIWYG). By "constrained," I mean it's  
> sometimes difficult to convince LyX to do something for you without  
> having to modify the source LaTeX document.

Not so; there is a feature that allows you to enter LaTeX code  
directly into your LyX document.

> For simple documents, it's very nice.

For complex documents, as well. ;-)

Chris Menzel




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