[Techtalk] Procite Alternative
Sue Stones
suzo at spin.net.au
Sat Sep 4 12:52:45 EST 2004
Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>
> You might want to try out LyX (http://www.lyx.org) which takes the pain
> out of using LaTeX; it's a graphical document processor that uses LaTeX
> as a back end. One of the cool things about it is that if you want to
> get "under the hood" (and code LaTeX stuff yourself) you can do that,
> but if you don't want to, you don't have to. It takes care of all the
> tedious normal coding part of LaTeX, so you can restrict your LaTeX
> usage to just the fancy stuff, or nothing at all, if that's what you
> prefer. When I started off using it, I knew nothing of LaTeX, and the
> only reason I didn't remain in blissful ignorance was because I wanted
> to produce documents that weren't academic reports, and were therefore
> not covered by the default cases.
Great thanks, I will look at it soon. It may be useful for something
that I am writing now. I skimmed through the license to see what use
would not be acceptable, and I couldn't find anything pertaining to the
documents created by its use (as far as I understood the terms).
What is it that restricts the use of this product?
sue
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