Hello LyXers, Steve Litt schrieb: > What I like about LyX over MS Word is: > > 1) LyX is rock stable. > 2) LyX's native format is humanly readable and parsable. > 3) LyX produces beautiful output with minimal tweaking. > 4) LyX is free software. No license tracking. > 5) LyX is pretty good about version conversion -- probably better than > Word.
Another addition to that would also be my (in this case specific) experience: A colleague and me did our thesis both at the same time. He used MSWord and I used LyX. Besides the facts mentioned there was the interesting point of file sizes. We had roughly the same amount of pages and graphics/images inside (around 130 pages each). The rendered PDF of my thesis was 2.7 MB, his (made from Word) was 120 MB! Almost the same size like the original Word document. To be fair - he had to embed his data because linking was not very reliable in Word (after doing this for some time Word messed up with the linking and finally smashed his doc). Because of this "reliability" he had also to do backups as often as he could, so he ended up with some 4 gig of backup. Of course I backuped as well, but since the LyX file is so small (due to working linking and not messing up with it) it's not worth mentioning it... Also when I work with students who write their thesis in Word - even today the same problems like page numbering not working anymore after you had to insert some pages before a new chapter etc. I like LaTeX and LyX also due to the fact that once you have setup your document properties you can focus on the content! So I'd like to thank the developers for putting this much effort in the improvement of LyX. Keep on the good work :-) Oliver -- “Waiting is a very funny activity: you can’t wait twice as fast.” Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
