> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Niklas Werner wrote:
>
> In my opinion the stability of a GNU/Linux system + Lyx is a major
> advantage. I'm working on a big document (>200 pages, about 100 figures)
> I don't dare to imagine what would have become of me when I would
> have started this in Vord!
Should we talk about the strange phenomena in Vord, such like
changing all formatting information when you open your document
in another place, or mixing up ALL figures suddenly, and they were
all ok just two minutes ago and you changed *nothing*?
> > - lyx-files are small and human-readable (ie UNIX-tool-parseable ,-)):
> > long live sed, awk an Perl!)
>
> Compare this to the horrible M$Vord-format (which becomes even more
> horrible when it gets corrupted during a failed write operation, via
> e.g. a spurious network connection)...
BTW, lyx files are much smaller (lastly, the new table format has
significantly enlarged files, but they are still small.)
Usually you can SEE if something went wrong, and if necessary you
can make a little correction on the lyx files themselves, reading
them again into lyx and working normally. Unusual, but efficient.
For example, two weeks ago I had to insert a small text in about 30
different texts. It was just a matter of writing a ridiculously small
shell script to append the new text into the files, and automatically
open them under LyX for a small correction (if necessary). Do that
with Vord, with all point and click and paste and point again...
j. b.
Vord was intentionally (and disrespectfully) spelled Vord.
