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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Lyx for business
From:       Graham Smith <graham.smith () myotis ! co ! uk>
Date:       2008-06-22 21:59:13
Message-ID: 08CB0201-4FA1-48A5-ADB4-A9645BF6F26F () myotis ! co ! uk
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Rich
>
>> I think this is a marketing thing, I have been to too many  
>> meetings where,
>> the people making the decisions, are impressed by how a report  
>> looks more
>> than what the report says.
>
> Graham,
>
>   Yes, there are too many people for whom appearance is more  
> important than
> is content. I don't want that type for clients.

I am less fussy ;-)  But really, often the people making the  
decisions aren't really the client, they just get involved at signing  
off a contract but have nothing to do with the job, you are just  
making it easy for the real client to get the consultant they want.

>
>> I suspect that Lyx will do what I need but, I agree this is a good  
>> option,
>> and I am using Scribus for a newsletter
>
>   If you look at The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed, you'll find a lot of  
> help in
> setting up fancy title pages, chapter header pages, running headers  
> and
> footers, and more. Also, the KOMA and Memoir classes have more  
> flexibility
> (and capabilities) than do the standard classes. Read the docs on  
> them to
> see if either is useful for you.

I have been using The Koma classes for several things as it is meant  
to be more geared towards European documents.  Certainly I found the  
letter class to work well. I have a couple of books on Latex so I  
will have a look.

>  Springer provided their own monograph class so that's what I used  
> for my book.

I regret that we have done both our books for Springer in Word.

>   A suggestion: when you have a layout that is to be your standard  
> for that
> type of document, empty a copy and save that as a template. I get  
> lazy and
> just rename one file to the new one, then make the appropriate content
> changes. It works for me.

Yes, that will be the plan.

Graham

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