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 :-)


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