Tysdag 19. april 2005 14:27 skreiv Steve Litt: > On Monday 18 April 2005 07:00 pm, pano karambelas wrote: > > Steve - > > > > Just to understand, do your comments apply to mathematical/technical > > documents that are < 10 K words as well ? > > Mathematical, no. MS Word has no reasonable way to do equations. Other tech > docs, yes. Prose and screenshots are easy in the various word processors.
As I see it there is nothing wrong with using LyX for everything large and small that are going to be published on paper or pdf. With one exception, Posters and other things (Birthdaycards etc) that are one off and highly styledependent. (I use Kword for these things.) I think Steve's main argument that it takes to long to change the standard in LyX to make it usable for short texts is based on that you have to do a custom styling every time you want to write a letter or memo or something. Most of these short texts is similar every time and if you spend a couple of hours making a custom template, you can use this every time you write a letter or a memo or whatever you write. This way using LyX for short texts is a breeze. There is another reason to use LyX for short texts as well, familiarity, the more you use the application the more you learn about it, the easier it is to use. And finally, in my experience it is not always easy to get openoffice/word to do what you want,either. It took me almost an hour to get openoffice to include figures in the document instead of linking to them. :). And I still can't get the stylist do what I want, it is better than word95 (last version I have used), but still awful compared to LyX/LaTeX. Ingar
