On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I'm moving this discussion to the users list: > > Patrick Camilleri wrote: > > Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t > > understand all this bashing at other word processors in your > > ‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the > > amount of time one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find out that modern > > Word Processors are indeed very capable tools.
Capable, yes. Usable, no. Yesterday I forwarded to a colleague a proposal I had written using LyX. At his request I converted it to ODT format so he could modify it using OpenOffice. As it was a simple document, the ODT version was a rather good imitation of the PDF I had exported from LyX. And it used styles. But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target, and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item in an unedited Enumerate environment had the number underlined. He had no idea why these changes in appearance happened. I have tried to get him to use LyX, and even installed it on his computer for him; but he is uncomfortable with not being able to tweak the appearance the way you can do with conventional word processors (never mind that this usually results in a messy and hard-to-read document). It took me over an hour to get the proposal looking decent again using OpenOffice: I should have just exported it as text and imported it back into LyX. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
