--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> From: Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>
> Subject: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:15 AM
> On Monday 26 January 2009 08:33:32 am Nikos Alexandris
> wrote:
>
> > I only want to say, as an end-user, that I don't
> even think to go back
> > to OpenOffice for documents. Even if there are
> cooperation problems.
>
> Is it just me, or is OpenOffice terrible about styles?
You? I use OOo all the time and 'within' OOo they work very well, people seem
to be writing books with it all the time. See for example the Getting Started
Guide at http://documentation.openoffice.org/.
Importing a document from Word seems to often import all kinds of junk styles
but that's another matter.
I don't think that it is the best tool for writing a book, Lyx looks better for
any number of reasons but Styles are not one of them. It may be that you are
not thinking of styles in the way that OOo does. I have never mastered Word
styles (one long weekend trying to get them to work in Work 1998 was enough)
but if you are accustomed to them then OOo is quite different.
>
> One day when mad at LyX, I briefly tried writing a 2nd
> edition of a book in
> OpenOffice (the first edition had been in MSWord from
> 1999). My styles didn't
> copy over, then when I manually put in styles they
> intermittently vanished.
> OO is great for a 2 page letter, but it's a horror
> movie when writing a book.
>
> After that foray into OO, I got really serious about
> learning to program LaTeX
> environments and commands, and their counterparts in LyX.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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