On Sun, 8 Nov 2015 10:51:56 -0500
Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:


> I'm undoubtedly biased, but I have come to find plain LaTeX easier
> than a word processor.

That easy feeling will vanish the day you need to turn your manuscript
into an ePub. LaTeX is a spectacular language for typesetting to PDF or
paper, but it's a dead bang lousy native format for a write-once,
deploy-all-formats manuscript.

[snip]

> Some people (but not I) might
> recommend LyX as a compromise.

I've used LyX to write books since 2001, but it's become so
problematic, and its community is so deaf regarding the need to write to
ePub as well as PDF, that I'm dumping it for all new construction, and
making my own long-document native format, called Stylz.

http://troubleshooters.com/projects/stylz/cheatsheet.htm

SteveT

Steve Litt 
November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
     of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques