[Insight-developers] First crack at usage documentation

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Folks-

At 02:41 PM 12/21/2000 -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>How about using LyX ?
>
>It is a graphic front end for LaTeX, we used it for writing papers.
>It has a nice math editor that take advantage of all latex capabilities.
>
>LyX editor is a Open Source project and binary versions are
>available for Windows. It is known to run in Linux, SGI's and Suns.
>
>The Home Page is :     http://www.lyx.org

I have looked this over. The biggest problem seems to be the installation: 
several packages are required including an X Server on Windows systems. I 
used LaTeX in the past and found it to be reasonable as long as you didn't 
stray from what it was trying to corral you into.

I'm willing to use LaTeX but is this a consensus? Another approach might be 
to gather everything together as PDF, and let people author in whatever 
tool they like. I think this approach will work as long as we have a solid 
outline to plug into, and it might give folks more freedom to work with 
their existing tools.

Comments?
Will