OO has a very decent LaTeX export, the output of which needs a little work, then import it into LyX.
el On 2013-01-04 10:43 , Jan Helebrant wrote: > 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 :-)
