[texhax] Using XeTeX to select fonts

[William Adams]

On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> I suppose that the author of Lyx assumed that learning LaTeX is
> difficult but in my opinion this assumption is wrong.

I believe that LyX is attempting to address the difficulty which most naïve users have w/ matching up semantic tagging w/ visual appearance --- most people view code as too arcane to bother with.

> Did you try TeXworks (or TeXShop) already?  I can't imagine anything
> better for newbies.

I use TeXshop on my Mac, WinTeXShell on my Tablet PC.

William

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