Anyone for "LyX" on "LinkBack" list?

[Elbrecht]

Hi -

just found out about "LyX" on "LinkBack" list - before I finally try myself, is there anyone out there doing it right now? I am not sure about all this "TeX" stuff to install before - so any help would be very appreciated.

HE

[Groucho]

Hi, Elbrecht.

I know nothing about LyX. It appears to be a graphical interface for TeX system. A search for linkback within LyX wiki yielded the following:

Stefan Schimanski added support for pasting graphics directly from the clipboard. Getting graphics into LyX usually takes a number of steps: draw it, export it, find it in the file dialog and insert it.
Now you can also easily copy graphics from any application and paste it via the clipboard as PNG or JPEG.
On Windows (…)
On Mac OSX you can paste as PDF data from nearly any application which gives you high quality vector graphics.
On Mac OSX you can paste via the LinkBack technology from any LinkBack-enabled application. This also gives you high quality PDF vector graphics, but in addition to that, also the ability to edit the figure later in the original editing application.

That's all.

Greetings, Henry.

[Elbrecht]

Well Henry -

LaTeX is about 2.2GB - but with LinkBack PDF handling on OS X, whatelse is missing? I remember "Justify" whole paragraphs [vs single lines only] for good typography - sometime, somehow...

HE

[Groucho]

I don't know, Elbrecht. I used LaTeX some ten years ago and for a limited time only. Looks like you aren't really going to need all the features LaTeX offers unless you are doing high-level publishing. And even so, learning and use takes some doing.
As far as I saw, LyX seems to offer a Word-like GUI, sure, yet I think at some cost (read, limited features).
Maybe someone else will tell you more.

Cheers, Henry.