Unfortunatly I must also say that OpenOffice is far behind MS Word. I'm trying to forget how to use Ms Word and OO, it always just ends up in a total mess if I try to do something except just writing letters and pressing space and enter for formating.
I hope you have learnt your lesson: LyX is always worth the effort ;-) But I do hope that some day (in lyx 1.5 perhaps?) there will be a nice gui to customize styles/layouts in LyX. that will be so easy to use so that even a person that never have used LyX can use it and create stuff so beautiful that it would put MS Word and OO out of business. Best wishes Gunnar On Tuesday 23 January 2007 06:00, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I was considering switching to OpenOffice because of the excessive effort > in creating/modifying styles in LyX. > > So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, in OpenOffice, of a book > I originally wrote using MS Word. > > WHAT A MESS! Styles I created in OpenOffice wouldn't stay created. If they > stayed created, they'd magically change properties from time to time. > Numbers kept changing to bullets and vice versa. I'm scared I'll be fine > tuning this document every time it's edited in any way, or even printed. I > will NEVER AGAIN write a book in OpenOffice. > > Yeah, it's tough to create custom styles in LyX (LaTeX), but at least once > they're made, they stay made, and always print the same way. While writing > this derivative book, not a day goes by where I don't miss LyX. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
