Is Lyx a better format than Tex?
but to convert it is complicated as follows...
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7.2.1. From .lyx to .pdf
The classic way to transform a . lyx document to PDF format is to follow a three-pass procedure: first, the .lyx document is exported to DVI, then to PS through dvi2ps, then the PS version is tranformed to PDF through software like the commercial Acrobat® Distiller®[1], or the freely available Ghostscript. (via ps2pdf).
This classic three-pass procedure is not only complicated, it also loses some information through the intermediate DVI format. The results are often not acceptable: the most frequent problem is bad presentation of the character glyphs that make up the document (see Quality of PDF from PostScript):
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Wrong type of fonts used, which is the commonest cause of fuzzy text.
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ghostscript too old, which can also result in fuzzy text.
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Switching to font encoding T1, which is yet another possible cause of fuzzy text.
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Another problem - missing characters - arises from an aged version of Acrobat® Distiller®.
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Finally, there's the common confusion that arises from using the dvips configuration file -Ppdf, the weird characters.
It would be much better to produce the PDF version directly from the TeX (i.e. LyX) output. The pdftex package (see Section 3.5) was created with this objective in mind. pdftex (and pdfjadetex) creates the PDF document in one pass from the TeX format. A disadvantage of pdftex and pdfjadetex used to be the complexity of the preliminary steps (see Chapter 4, especially Section 4.9) needed to get a LaTeX document converted to PDF, escecially when it contained images. Not anymore: the method described here automates the format transormations for the images and hides the complexity of the commands involved in three files (sedscr, jadetex.cfg, lyxtox). See Section 7.2.2.
Notes
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Distiller® is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
What about elynxer, it could maybe be improved to directly make PDF?
what about Snipmate and VIM?
Would you know a lightweight alternative to PDFLATEX and PDFTEX?
thanks
not so light...
Code:
# apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-latex-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ed libkpathsea5 luatex mime-support tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
Suggested packages:
debhelper perl-tk
Recommended packages:
texlive-luatex lmodern texlive-latex-base-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ed libkpathsea5 luatex mime-support tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-latex-base
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 67.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
better
Code:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-binaries
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ed libkpathsea5 tex-common texlive-common
Suggested packages:
debhelper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ed libkpathsea5 tex-common texlive-binaries texlive-common
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,454 kB of archives.
After this operation, 19.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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