You don't say what your subject is, but as an earlier respondent suggested, TeX is pretty much all there is for math. None of the others works well with equations (as for Microsoft Equation Editor, as they say on Car Talk, "Don't get me started!"). If you want transparencies, the right thing would probably be to use SliTeX. That said, I'm afraid it's not a pleasant experience, at least not until you get used to it. On the other hand, if what you want is mostly text, the game is much easier. You could probably use one of the WYSIWYG editors that dumps HTML (I hear there's one in StarOffice, but have never used it), and then extract the text in a post-process later. Best, R >>>>> "TW" == Timothy Wilson <wilson at visi.com> writes: TW> Hey everyone, TW> I'd like to begin putting my lecture notes and overhead projector TW> transparencies in electronic format. I wonder if someone has a quick TW> recommendation. TW> Whatever method, I'm planning on writing in plain text for maximum TW> compatibility. That suggests something like vim/emacs + one of the 'roffs, TW> TeX, LaTeX/LyX, SGML, XML, HTML... I've got some experience with DocBook, TW> but I don't think that will really fit the bill. If I did use DocBook, I TW> would have to do a lot of work on my own custom stylesheet. TW> Anyone created a template for LyX before? TW> Any other DTDs that would work well for this. TW> The possibility of using XML is attractive because I could begin to do some TW> really fun things with indexing and searching old lectures, including TW> multimedia bits, and other coolness. TW> I'd love to get some feedback on this. TW> -Tim TW> -- TW> Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: TW> Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ TW> W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ TW> wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org