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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:18:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Woody Carey <wcarey@wcarey.com>
To:        "Paul D. Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lyx or something better?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911302116070.98345-100000@mail.wcarey.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991130210718.C10248@uberhacker.org>

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I have had great success with LyX, and it seems to have active
development, so that is good, too.  Give it a shot.  Or you could do like
the late W. Richard Stevens did and write your entire 700 page book in
troff with vi.  Your choice...

FreeBSD - How hardcore do you want to be today?

 - Woods

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paul D. Schmidt wrote:

> Hello, I need to write a manual of sorts, and I was thinking of using lyx
> for the typesetting.  I want it to look nice but I want to have to "code"
> my document by writing TeX macros or whatever myself...
> 
> Does lyx seem like hte right program to use, or should I know about anything
> else?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 



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