--- killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because > of the excessive effort in > > creating/modifying styles in LyX. > > > > So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, > in OpenOffice, of a book I > > originally wrote using MS Word. > > > > WHAT A MESS! Styles I created in OpenOffice > wouldn't stay created. If they > > stayed created, they'd magically change properties > from time to time. Numbers > > kept changing to bullets and vice versa. I'm > scared I'll be fine tuning this > > document every time it's edited in any way, or > even printed. I will NEVER > > AGAIN write a book in OpenOffice. > > > I must admit that although I'm not a fan of the > 'OO/Word is for morons' > style of promoting Lyx use, > I did have similar problems when I started my book > project in OO 1.9.
IIRC OOo 1.9.x was not a production version and was buggey especially with headings. OOo is up to 2.1 and overall seems pretty stable. > Styles and bullets just wouldn't stay set. I don't > know to what extent > things have improved since then. I'm left wondering > how these people who > claimed that they used that version of OO for > serious work actually got > anything done. Beats me but there are quite a few books out there done with OOo including the collaboratively written OOo documentation based on a well constructed template and well defined styles. > > It proved to be quite a problem because, after OO, I > tried Koffice Word > which had some font kerning problems that made it > unusable for me. I > should add that other people claimed that they could > still use it. The > versions of Abiword that I tried were also had bugs > surrounding the styles. > > In the end, it was probably all for the best as it > led me to discover > Lyx and now that I've learnt Lyx I prefer this way > of working. > > Bit of a problem for Linux as a platform that I was > unable to install a > fully working standard word processor though. Time to give OOo another try. I note that you are a Linex user. A serious problem seems to be that various distros tend to tweak OOo to their preferences. Recently there seems to have been a wave of problems with the Ubuntu issue of OOo. It is always (almost anyway) safer to download OOo from the official OOo site. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
