(And the auto-complete is nice too.) LaTeX is too extensively extensible and there are too many random packages out there for a GUI to be able to adequately tackle any meaningful subset for everyone's satisfaction - I prefer the flexibility of TeXShop's customization, even is it means selecting a menu item from a pop-up instead of a button from a palette. It provides a simple palette for the most common LaTeX commands, and a robust macro and scripting system for more esoteric stuff. TeXShop doesn't *try* to be a WYSIWYG editor by any means, it's a LaTeX editor - which means a raw text editor. And, with a good install of supporting packages, I can insert graphics ( even svg ) and they work ! Its amazing ( compared to days when the only graphic format I could get to work was eps ). The latest versions seem to be much better, I havent run into anything that I need that isnt available anymore. LyX used to be very weak in that there were things you could represent in tex that LyX didnt support. Cant say I thought too much of their UI's either. I also looked at TeXShop, and the iTex apps. Im no expert, and Id have to spend a lot of time looking up how to do things, that are, in LyX, quite discoverable. But I really appreciate the speed it gives in writing tex docs. LyX is no Mac app, and it shines all the way through. The biggest problems are tight layout, and some sorta ugly buttons in the toolbar. It is based on the QT version, using the port of the QT library to Aqua. Have you seen the Aqua version? It is much better than the xforms one. LyX doesnt have the best interface in the world, but you are using LaTeX. TeXShop is a minimalist text editor, with a decent click-to-insert panel for the most common LaTeX elements, and it uses tetex under the hood, so it's quite quick.
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