On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > For monographs (or if I'm editing a book myself) I use LyX/LaTeX to make a > camera-ready PDF. This works pretty well, except that I have to import > colloborator's chapters from word usually (via LibreOffice's LaTeX export). I > have also used Word and InDesign for books in the past, but frankly, I never > want to do this again. These tools are just not prepared for books. I spent > more time with fixing glitches than I need for importing into LyX. And the > result looks much better with LyX/LaTeX, anyway (InDesign produces good > typography as well, but it is [or was, back then] deficient in terms of > hyphenation and things such as automatic running headers). > > For papers, I use LyX to write the first version, then export to Word (via > ODF/TeX4ht), polish it for submission and use Word/LibreOffice for further > revisions. This is the more annoying part. I could use Word from the > beginning, but I'm much faster with LyX, also I use BibTeX quite a lot.
Thanks, Jurgen. While I'm at it, do I recall correctly that you're in the humanities? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Hatred destroys. Love heals." - Eknath Easwaran
