One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old text?
For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF clone of word like OO. If someone only can use word files, e.g., a secretary, I will need to send one. Cheers, -Jan On 5/14/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX->LaTeX->TeX ability to lay out text and math. I'd be hard pressed to believe that subtle LaTeX tweaks in your layout file will be accurately retained by MS Word. If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS Word with the idea of typesetting it him/herself, why do you care whether it's written in LyX, MS Word, OO, Vim, Emacs or Mozilla Composer? It's not like you're responsible for getting the layout right. If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS Word with the idea that YOU are responsible for the typesetting, and if the requester cannot be disuaded from this unreasonable demand (after all, why can't they just accept it as a .pdf?), then it would seem to me that the easier route is to start it in MS Word, and begin that by creating a stylesheet (I think they call them "templates" in Word). Where I see LyX useful, and in fact completely indispensible, is for people like me, who must prolifically produce large, well typeset documents, with no help from a publisher or layout artist. Another person who could use it is one whose publisher or layout artist prefers to work with either LyX or LaTeX, especially if the publisher or layout artist gives the author a layout before the book project begins. But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
