On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> The tricky part is when the choice is colored by unproductive assessments >> like choosing one product because it's more fashionable (i.e., people will >> think I'm cooler if I work with Tool A instead of Tool B) rather than >> because it's better for the workflow at hand. > > In all the years I've run my business using tools on linux, no one has > ever asked what tool I've used. When I must exchange editable documents with > clients, colleagues, or agencies I write using OO.o, then send them the .doc > version. Otherwise, no one cares what I use. That's probably because I have > such a supportive boss. :-) > > Rich
I'm a mostly happy LyX user, but there are some gotchas: 1. The fonts in a PDF can look ratty / ragged on the screen in some cases. There's a whole bunch of stuff about this on the LyX web site in the FAQ, but the bottom line is that it's a non-trivial exercise to get it right, and not a simple "plug and play" operation. I'm told they print fine, but I rarely print anything these days. 2. If you use the Beamer (aka latex-beamer) tools with LyX for presentations, there are things you can do that will crash PDF production in LaTeX with totally non-informative error messages. You basically have to divide your document up into small chunks and *constantly* test-make PDFs, and undo what you just did if it crashes. 3. I have not been able to get an automated Word format document out of LyX, even though it's *supposed* to be possible. HTML export is pretty good, but then you have to manually import the HTML into some other tool and format it. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
