On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> > can someone supply screenshots showing the differences of a given layout
> > in word and in lyx. i think it would be very nice to draw peoples
> > attention to small examples where the typesetting differences are
> > clear:
> >
> > 1. line-based vs paragraph-based layout
> >
> > 2. floats
> >
> > 3. orphans
>
> I tried to create an example with LyX and Word, both showing a layout that
> has
> been tweaked quite a bit, using the same font (Palatino) and also mostly the
> same settings. I tried to make the Word thing as good as possible, otherwise
> the comparision would not be fair.
I put up a wiki page with J�rgen's text here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ComparingLyXAndWord
for future reference. Would it make sense to upload the source files for
the documents as well (i.e. the .lyx-file and the .doc-file).
/Christian
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