On Mon, 14 May 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: > I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start > a project in LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
Interface, interoperability, and reliability. I cannot write in Word. Too slow. Large equations are a nightmare. Not every publisher will accept Word. (But in many fields this is not a problem.) Word still gets confused by lots of pictures and equations. It can be crashed by these or mishandle references. It's getting better, but still, a colleague was just unable to convert a 60 page (that's right, 60!) Word document to PDF because of the equations. For now, it is largely a matter of which pain you find most acceptable: pain during writing, or postponed pain during coversion. Cheers, Alan Isaac
