Lyx has more output formats. One thingI ahve found useful is that I can produce HTML and PDF versions of the same document easilly.
Lyx also has better import - it can import text as paragraphs or lines for example.
Lyx is faster and works better. One of the first things I noticed with an imported text file in TeXmacs is that getting rid of a line break by backspacing from the start of the next line did not work on the first attempt, but did work eventually. Generally Lyx is the more intuitive despite being less WYSISYG.
Lys is noticably faster and feels more responsive on my 1.2GHz Athlon.
TeXmacs looks prittier. It has better control over appearance from the GUI.
I might find a use for TeXmacs for short documents or where appearence really matters, for long documents LyX wins hands down.
If Lyx has a little more ways of tweaking final appearnce without suing LaTeX, I would have no use for TeXmacs.
I do not know if it is skill......
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......but they certainly deliver results.
I used to work for an investment web site that used Arsdigita. I was an investment analyst and was closely involved in specifying the site.
Originally development was done by one of those web development company's that came out of nowhere to be worth billions at the height of the dotcom boom (I am sure every one knows the type). They failed to deliver anything that worked after months. The little that almost worked was overcomplicated (e.g. java applets to implement cascading drop down menus).
When we switched to Arsdigita we had some pages working within weeks. These used data extracted from several different financial data feeds (which are complex) which was stored in database (which they also implemented) and content from a content management system (which they also implemented).
I worked with them both to specify the site (what we wanted on what page, how to calcualte it, where to get the data from) and to debug it (they did the code, I did the financial maths) and I thought the process they used very efficient. Maybe be it is approach rather than, say skill at coding, that made them efficient the answer to the question may depend on how you define skill.
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Lyx has more output formats. One thingI ahve found useful is that I can produce HTML and PDF versions of the same document easilly.
Lyx also has better import - it can import text as paragraphs or lines for example.
Lyx is faster and works better. One of the first things I noticed with an imported text file in TeXmacs is that getting rid of a line break by backspacing from the start of the next line did not work on the first attempt, but did work eventually. Generally Lyx is the more intuitive despite being less WYSISYG.
Lys is noticably faster and feels more responsive on my 1.2GHz Athlon.
TeXmacs looks prittier. It has better control over appearance from the GUI.
I might find a use for TeXmacs for short documents or where appearence really matters, for long documents LyX wins hands down.
If Lyx has a little more ways of tweaking final appearnce without suing LaTeX, I would have no use for TeXmacs.
......but they certainly deliver results.
I used to work for an investment web site that used Arsdigita. I was an investment analyst and was closely involved in specifying the site.
Originally development was done by one of those web development company's that came out of nowhere to be worth billions at the height of the dotcom boom (I am sure every one knows the type). They failed to deliver anything that worked after months. The little that almost worked was overcomplicated (e.g. java applets to implement cascading drop down menus).
When we switched to Arsdigita we had some pages working within weeks. These used data extracted from several different financial data feeds (which are complex) which was stored in database (which they also implemented) and content from a content management system (which they also implemented).
I worked with them both to specify the site (what we wanted on what page, how to calcualte it, where to get the data from) and to debug it (they did the code, I did the financial maths) and I thought the process they used very efficient. Maybe be it is approach rather than, say skill at coding, that made them efficient the answer to the question may depend on how you define skill.