Hi,
every year I am completing final reports for our institute. It is complex
document with figures, citations, footnotes etc. often with more than 300
pages. So the LibreOffice used for editing is a little bit slow and I do
not think the limiting factor is the PC and I also do not think switching
to Word would improve anything (Word can easily make me angry when do have
to work with it).

So I am thinking about two possibilities:
1) to stay with LibreOffice and only to use the main document (*.ODM) used
to join all the chapters which are separate files and thus it could reduce
the system load during the editing.

2) to move to LYX, but I am unsure whether it is possible to at least
partially import current work or whether I would have to define all the
styles again from scratch. I still will have all input files for the report
as DOC or DOCX files. Second, I assume that LYX should be able to handle
large texts as books etc. but have no practical experience with it so would
be fine to know how it could behave.

what do you think about it?

thanks

Jan

PS: the visual comparison between LYX and LibreOffice PDF output is not
important for my boss :-)

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