Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS > Word... > > Why not use MS Word from the beginning? [snip] But hard as I rack my brains, > I can't think of a reason to start a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to > MS Word. > I don't always know where the paper will end up, anyway---a journal, a collection of papers, or whatever---let alone in what format they'll want it. Even if I did, I find it much more comfortable to write in LyX, even when I'm not doing logic, and the LyX-->Word conversion is, as you say, one-way. So I write in LyX and if I have to convert to Word later, so be it. I'll do it at the very end, and I get all the advantages of LyX between here and there.
Of course, there's another reason: Word for Linux hasn't been released yet, and I wouldn't be spending my hard-earned money on it even if it were. Of course, OOo is an option, but then OOo to Word conversions aren't always trivial, either, and I still vastly prefer writing in LyX to writing in OOo. Why? Because I find WYSIWYG so distracting, even if using stylesheets gives you some of the benefit of WYSIWYM. Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff. Richard -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
