New Members ⇒ Hi LaTeX folks...

[SFSecurity]

I'm new to the LaTeX community but I used to be a printer back when God was a small child and Methuselah was in diapers.

I'm working on a couple of books and wanted more than OO/Libre Office offers (Holding nose when Word is mentioned) so a forum I'm on suggested LyX as a starting point to soften the blow of the learning curve.

Tips, suggested books to read, whatever, most welcome.

Best,

Allen

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Allen,

welcome to the forum!

LyX is easier to start, that's true. But non-standard things may be difficult with it anyway. It's easy as long as you walk the prepared path.

A couple of books, wow! For such big projects, I would take LaTeX, organize files well, fine-tune preamble, use macros, ...

Also, if you would decide to use LaTeX, we can help here in case of any questions.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,

personally i am not a LyX user. I stayed with LaTeX.
One book i can recommend is LaTeX for complete novices, another one is featured in the right column of this page with a current discount of 50 %

[cgnieder]

Hi Allen,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

Regards