ChapterZero

I was surfing the web, looking up information on TeX (actually, LaTeX) when I stumbled across the LyX website again. I had been there before, but that was before I got Linux installed on it’s own dedicated machine… So now that I’m learning LaTeX, I’m seriously considering installing LyX. It has great sounding features (like WYSIWYM), but I wonder if it wouldn’t just be more convenient for me to use ‘raw’ LaTeX instead of trying to learn how to interact with LyX. Anyway, its a cool link to have.

While I was browsing their site, I saw mention of a ‘trend in word processors moving towards the XML standard’; that sounds very interesting- can’t MSWord 2000 & XP do that already. Imagine if you could actually import files from Word into say, WP, without losing formatting. That sounds impossible: I don’t see MS giving up their competitive advantages like that.

Well, I’ve exceeded my quota of boring, geeky blog for the night, so I think I’ll go back surfing… maybe see if my email is back up yet (I still can’t believe its been down for nearly 24 hrs straight!)

Possibly relevant posts:

• Installing TeTeX latex packages (2/28/2005)
• Pointless Post (10/1/2002)
• LaTeXRender (5/1/2004)