On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Damian Counsell wrote:
LaTeX forces you to organize your writing and, inevitably, your thinking in a hierarchical way, from the largest logical blocks to the smallest. <snip> Almost as depressing as the stream-of-consciousness guff some students produce instead of real writing is the time they waste futzing around with fonts and layouts to make their drivel "look nice". Schools should be teaching children that good writing is a craft not an art. Only by mastering your craft can you produce art---and just because you've used lots of colours doesn't mean you've made a work of art.
Just wanted to add that LyX is a "GUI version of LaTeX", so you get all the benefits of LaTeX while retaining the ease of use of a graphical tool. And it's very difficult to fiddle around with the fonts and layout! Michael Brown Fen Systems Ltd.