On 26 Jan, 2007, at 11:46 AM, John Kane wrote:
As a new LyX user I cannot comment for sure but I do think that LyX does look superiour for books and large reports but for other works (say anything under 8-10 pages and that does not need a lot of math I'd still go with OOo.
I'd have to disagree.Unfortunately LyX is still behind the curve in the area of big project management (books, manuals, etc). But it is close to perfect, I think, for any document from 0 pages to chapter-length as long as complex layouts are not required (i.e. multicolumnns with pictures and tables, etc.). Framemaker is still way ahead (from the writer's perspective---FM's typography is not so great).Too bad they killed it for Mac and never really marketed it for Linux. Besides, Framemaker may even die soon, given Adobe's massive investment in InDesign, and its format is not really open. But LyX is getting better, and version 1.5 looks very promising on the long document front.
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