John Kane wrote:
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.
Yes, I've learned that the first step is to get rid of all MS crap when
you import a MSWord document.
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.
I agree, OO styles handling is quite good IMO. I used to think that it
was crap until I learned to use the OO Navigator. Like everyone coming
from MSWord, I was expecting a MSWord clone with OO, which it is not.
Still, LyX is much better for writing of course :-)
But we have quite a few things to learn from OO speaking of styles and
document navigation.
Abdel.
