In article <7eu9tm$4nc$1@news.interlog.com>, Martin says...
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>Patrick M�rissert-Coffini�res wrote:
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>>  ... Then Leslie Lamport made the very point that Sven Utcke is making: 
>> that pure wysiwyg encouraged people to forget the structure of what 
>> they were doing, So I thing LyX, with the wysiwyM idea is a wonderful
>> approach. 

scientific word does the best job at this (better than Lyx, but not free,
and I don't think it is even available on Linux.

But it works similar to LyX, and of course, it generates Latex as
output. Which then one can use to generate .ps, which one can use to generate
PDF, and also Latex can be used to generate HMTL using Latex2HTML.

I agree that writing in pure Latex is like low level programming. When I did
it, I used to spend much time fixing synatx errors, unmatched {}, etc.., and
it was a pain. If I can use an Object Oriented flexible document layout
system, it is much easier and faster as long as I still get the Latex/Tex
output from it. 

Bob