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RE: Moscow-Cassiopea



On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> > 	In fact you can do anything with TeX or Lout... And there are
> > appearing WYSIWYG-like interfaces for LaTeX, such as LyX and KLyX.
> > Creating a real WYSIWYG for LaTeX makes no sense, ye know.
> 
> I believe it. However, I couldn't understand how to make TeX work with
> hebrew (or Russian, either) after 3 hours of RTFM. So I'll shelve it until

I don't believe you. Just read the HOWTO and do what it says and it works.
It took me 25 minutes to make sample one-page print-outs in Hebrew and 3
other languages that are of interest to me. LaTeX *works*.

> I have a spare month. I liked TeX with english, though. But it is too
> complicated for average users, still, and LyX is still too weak - it
> allows only basic-basic. At least, when I looked on it about 8 monthes ago, it
> didn't allow me to write my course work on OO - I had to revert to direct
> LaTeX coding.

I admit that direct LaTeX coding is getting on my nerve sometimes (I do tr
"/" " " <latex.tex | less ;) but once you arrange for your most used
things to be well-learned you can do your job. Unlike in a WYSWYG where
you still have 120% chances of re-formatting the whole document (and
tables and etc) 10 minutes before delivery, after 6 months of hard work.

Peter