Alternatives to LaTek?

[Jin314159]

Hey guys, does anyone know of any good alternatives to LaTek? It seems like one has to invest a decent amount of time just to learn LaTek. I was wondering if there are some easier alternatives.

[Chen]

I managed to learn it in a couple of minutes... it also seemed complicated at first but it's really simple. [:)] Give it a shot, this PDF explains most of it:
http://www.physicsforums.com/misc/howtolatex.pdf

[JohnDubYa]

In my opinion, you have two alternatives -- typesetting commands or pulling down menus.

To me, pulling down menus is easier to get started, but becomes increasingly tedious and slow.

With that in mind, have you considered a GUI front-end for LaTeX that provides pull-down capability, like WinEDT? I think WinEDT, coupled with LaTeX, is very easy to learn.

Commands are better, even if they require a little memory on part of the user. And there is no better command-driven typesetting utiltiy than LaTeX.

And if it takes some time to learn, so what? Isn't that time well spent?