> But I can tell you this guy is going to come back and say he's a great > and mighty best selling author, ask how many books have I sold. While > books provide a part of my income, I have no best sellers, either now > or in the past. > > So, when he comes back and asks that, it would be *wonderful* to give > the writer's list one or more best seller books (I think something > with an Amazon rank of less than 5000 would do it), to refute his > statement, by counterexample.
First, LyX is just a GUI, a sort-of-IDE for LaTeX, even though it uses its own file format. And you would never make a distinction between the various LaTeX IDEs or editors or front-ends or... Next, LaTeX (and consequently, any of the various front-ends for it) is *the* publishing tool within the scientific world. Obviously, no one would write pulp fiction or non-fiction "bestseller" books with it, since those authors aren't scientists. And concerning .doc as a content exchange format; During my last 25 years of experience with writing documents I have *never*, repeat *never* seen anyone re-use from a .doc document any content beyond bare naked unformatted raw text. Even if it was for re-use *within* MS Word. "Paste as unformatted text" is the only possibility of content re-use that the spaghetti-format of Word effectively allows. No matter what effort you deploy in preparing templates with styles and whatnot - it won't work, ever. Sincerely, Wolfgang
