[Journal] Using LyX for FOSS4G 2009 papers?

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 2010-09-29, at 10:14 PM, Tyler Erickson wrote:

> Does anyone know if the LyX Document Processor can be used to produce a LaTeX file that would be acceptable for the OSJ publication?  LyX describes itself as a GUI for LaTeX, and has the ability to export documents as "LaTeX (pdflatex)" or "LaTeX (plain)".  I have limited experience with LaTeX, and don't know the differences between these flavors of LaTeX, or whether the OSJ LaTeX template can be used by LyX.
> 
> http://www.lyx.org/

Hi there, Lyx should work fine for you.  Keep in mind you don't have to compile the latex code into a PDF or postscript file - we just need the text source code of your document and we'll compile it and test it out.  But of course, if you get it looking good in lyx then you'll know it should look good after we're done with it.  Or general guidelines/template are available at:

http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/template/

Hope that makes some sense.  Either way, don't loose sleep learning to use lyx or latex, unless you've got math equations or complex rendering of tables, etc.  We can translate an openoffice document, for example, pretty quickly.  Heck, you can even export from openoffice into Latex apparently!

Best wishes,
Tyler


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