[reikonomusha]

I’ve found LyX good for getting a document started, allowing you to not think so heavily about formatting details while giving you decent output.

Eventually, though, I export to LaTeX and format the rest myself. I find that using LyX long enough, you don’t have the formatting commands available to you (and you end up with a ton of unreadable custom insets and inline TeX), and configuration becomes as complex as LaTeX itself.

It’s a neat project and I’ve been happy to see it steadily grow over the past 10+ years.

[greeneggs]

> you don’t have the formatting commands available to you (and you end up with a ton of unreadable custom insets and inline TeX)

Does this mean a LyX user can't easily collaborate with others? Most people don't use LyX. If in a collaboration one author uses LyX and everyone else uses normal LaTeX (possibly with lots of packages, tikz/pstricks, etc.), will this cause problems---either for the LyX user, for everyone else, or for version control?

[bovine3dom]

> configuration becomes as complex as LaTeX itself.

I've been a happy user of LyX for about a decade and I have to agree whole-heartedly with you here. Creating a new document in LyX invariably starts with me copying a previous .lyx file and deleting all the content because the preambles and associated settings are very large.

I suppose I should just make a template, but copying and pasting a file is easier, and I like the analogy with a mother dough...

[chaoticmass]

I would create or use a style file which would redefine standard macros to apply the desired styling.