On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:02:31 -0400 Chris Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly > publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted > papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page > paper I'd written in LyX into Word for one of these journals was > excruciating. Chris, That kind of experience is what I've had too. But then I remember that I've saved all that excruciating fiddling with the document through all the revisions up to the final version. "Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page paper . . . written in LyX into Word" might be excruciating, but so is writing it in Word in the first place. I have used LyX as my standard writing tool for more than a decade, using it for everything from shopping lists to 200-page books. I also use it (with beamer) for presentations, which usually look much more professional than PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps the most useful feature of LyX (in my experience) is the ease with which it handles crossreferences and floats. The position of a float might not always be perfect using LyX, but trying to get figures where you want them in Word is a far thornier problem. My general approach to getting a LyX document into Word format is to us the LyXHTML export, import the exported file into LibreOffice, fix the inevitable problems, and save in DOCX format. Les
