[PLUG-TALK] Wikipedia and John Ball lecture

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at cesmail.net
Sun May 18 17:24:06 UTC 2008


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
>> Ah well ... you could try TeXmacs. But I use LyX because it's "integrated"
>> with R via some literate programming extensions.
> 
>    LyX offers me two advantages over LaTeX in Emacs: 1) it's easier to read
> content because the tags are in unobtrusive grey boxes and 2) it's much more
> productive for writing and editing.
> 
>    My book has extensive math and figures and LyX made everything very easy
> to write, edit, and tune. I sent Springer all the LaTeX output (along with
> the pdf file), and all they did was add the inside cover and first four
> pages (I started numbering the forematter at page 5).
> 
>    An excellent tool.
> 
> Rich
> 

The integration with R is better now than it was when you wrote the 
book, thanks to Gregor Gorjanc. See

http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave

and

http://cran.fhcrc.org/contrib/extra/lyx/



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