Re: Why Lyx->Word?

[Ricardo Rodríguez - Your XEN ICT Team]

I've been playing around with Lyx for about three months now. I am coming from a FrameMaker environment. I can not tell you why Lyx->Word, but I've been doing FM->Word for years. And the reason was/is clear to me: it is far easy accomplish Word requirements working with FM (I do hope it will the same with Lyx) then converting to Word (mif2go is a great option) than working with Word itself. It crazy to try to work with plenty of maps, graphics, equations, images and so on, so for. FM manage that all without a glitch.   Now, I'm moving to Lyx trying to find an option available to Linux, Mac and Windows users. Of course, being Lyx an FOSS initiative is of huge important: it will not be possible for our group to buy commercial licenses, but it is possible to try to contribute to a FOSS initiative.   Just the two cents of a Lyx newcomer.   Cheers,   Ricardo       -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team >>> Steve Litt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14/5/2007 19:30 >>> 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? AFAIK once you convert to Word (or rtf or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in Word, you don't have LyX->LaTeX->TeX ability to lay out text and math. I'd be hard pressed to believe that subtle LaTeX tweaks in your layout file will be accurately retained by MS Word. If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS Word with the idea of typesetting it him/herself, why do you care whether it's written in LyX, MS Word, OO, Vim, Emacs or Mozilla Composer? It's not like you're responsible for getting the layout right. If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS Word with the idea that YOU are responsible for the typesetting, and if the requester cannot be disuaded from this unreasonable demand (after all, why can't they just accept it as a .pdf?), then it would seem to me that the easier route is to start it in MS Word, and begin that by creating a stylesheet (I think they call them "templates" in Word). Where I see LyX useful, and in fact completely indispensible, is for people like me, who must prolifically produce large, well typeset documents, with no help from a publisher or layout artist. Another person who could use it is one whose publisher or layout artist prefers to work with either LyX or LaTeX, especially if the publisher or layout artist gives the author a layout before the book project begins. 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. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/