[ale] notepad

[jeff hubbs]

This might not be of interest to everyone, but a few months ago when I 
was researching document generation possibilities under Linux, I came 
across Lyx, which uses TeTeX.

When you're running Lyx, you only deal with content, not format - you 
deal with format in some kind of definition file or template.  But, it 
means that if you have to kick out some killer document like a thesis or 
a Government contract, you can actually create the format and then fill 
it in with text - and everything will line up just like it's supposed 
to, in the right font, the right size, etc.  You don't explicitly set 
the parameters of each and every hockin' letter like in Word or 
StarOffice.  It convinced me that anyone who works with those kinds of 
documents routinely would benefit if they climbed that learning curve.

- Jeff


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