one of my old CS profs used latex all the time for his
notes/handouts/testes.. he didn't use anything like lyx.. all hand-coded
in emacs.. but he was kinda a wierd guy :)  I think a more modern aproach
would be HTML or XML.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)

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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'd like to begin putting my lecture notes and overhead projector
> transparencies in electronic format. I wonder if someone has a quick
> recommendation.
> 
> Whatever method, I'm planning on writing in plain text for maximum
> compatibility. That suggests something like vim/emacs + one of the 'roffs,
> TeX, LaTeX/LyX, SGML, XML, HTML... I've got some experience with DocBook,
> but I don't think that will really fit the bill. If I did use DocBook, I
> would have to do a lot of work on my own custom stylesheet.
> 
> Anyone created a template for LyX before?
> 
> Any other DTDs that would work well for this.
> 
> The possibility of using XML is attractive because I could begin to do some
> really fun things with indexing and searching old lectures, including
> multimedia bits, and other coolness.
> 
> I'd love to get some feedback on this.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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