Juergen Fenn schrieb: > > I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS > Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your > paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort > on converters. > > Regards, > Jürgen. >
"That's a bold statement." (To quote a popular movie, IIRC.) Seriously, although it's correct that especially between Latex and the Open Doc Format better converters are needed, I don't think your advice is wise, especially for people who are familiar and productive with Lyx. Btw, what advice did you give before OOo existed? Everybody should buy (or crack) msword? Don't get me wrong, I like OOo a lot, and with tools like writer2latex one could even use it in a similar way as lyx. Actually my dream would be to have OOo as a combined editor-front-end for latex and odt/doc documents alike. But the tight integration with Latex makes Lyx so much more powerful for my needs (coming from Latex), so that's why I'm a Lyx user. I think there's hope that in the future people will rather require Open Doc Format files instead of Word. Then it would be great if Lyx could export ODF easily. Maybe the planned XML file format will help...? -sven
