On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, 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?
Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working on at the moment is currently at 28 pages, with 25 figures and one table. It will probably end up at about 100 pages with about 80 figures and ten tables. With Lyx I can get the figures in easily (even if they are Grace files) and cross-reference them no matter which page they end up on. With MS Word (and OO.org), getting figures the size I want them is a nightmare, and half the time the caption is on the next page. That's probably my biggest problem. I won't even go into pagination that changes every time you open the file on a different computer, margins which change for no apparent reason every second paragraph, etc. If someone wants my document in MS Word format, appearance is obviously not important. So I'll export from Lyx in ASCII, load it into OO.org, stick all the figures at the end, and save in MS Word format. I estimate my time to produce a useful document using Lyx is about half as long as to produce the same document in MS Word. -- L. R. Denham
