I am surprised no one mentioned TeXmacs ( http://www.texmacs.org/ ) yet. It is a WYSIWYG editor that can both import from (works reasonably well) and export (works perfecly) to TeX.
By using it you can always do things nearly as quickly as you would using MS Word, and then fine tune things later if you know LaTeX. Every time I want to do something I think it is painful using LaTeX (like complex nested tables) that's the route I take - it works really great for me.
Some folks here might also like the fact that it is entirely written in Scheme.
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I am surprised no one mentioned TeXmacs ( http://www.texmacs.org/ ) yet. It is a WYSIWYG editor that can both import from (works reasonably well) and export (works perfecly) to TeX.
By using it you can always do things nearly as quickly as you would using MS Word, and then fine tune things later if you know LaTeX. Every time I want to do something I think it is painful using LaTeX (like complex nested tables) that's the route I take - it works really great for me.
Some folks here might also like the fact that it is entirely written in Scheme.
Wow - thanks for this. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before. Looks like it will take the late out of Latex!
You're welcome!
I thought the same thing ("I can't believe I didn't know about this application before!") when I first heard of it 8 months ago...
Good program; this is rather similar to LyX. I suggest people try both and just go with whichever one they like better.