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6 Post author: Gondolinian 26 January 2015 12:46AM

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Comment author: passive_fist 26 January 2015 09:47:01PM 6 points [-]

I've been using LyX for preparing my doctoral dissertation and I'm amazed that such a complete and capable tool isn't more widely known and used. I can't imagine preparing scientific documents now with anything other than LyX, and I can't imagine that I used to use software like MS Word for this purpose. Anyone have any other examples of obscure but amazingly capable software?

Comment author: emr 27 January 2015 12:43:54AM 4 points [-]

(I hope this doesn't sound condescending) but do you mean Latex, or LyX specifically? Latex itself seems almost humorously field-dependent: everywhere in the hard sciences and nowhere in business.

Comment author: passive_fist 27 January 2015 06:28:21AM 1 point [-]

LyX specifically.