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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Lyx for business
From:       Steve Litt <slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
Date:       2008-06-22 15:17:15
Message-ID: 200806221117.15613.slitt () troubleshooters ! com
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On Sunday 22 June 2008 06:32, Graham Smith wrote:
> A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their
> experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me
> towards some web links, with maybe example templates.
>
> Headed notepaper, business (technical) reports with "smart" covers etc.
>
> I've been toying with Lyx for a while now and have persuaded my
> partners that we should give it a go as a replacement for Word, but
> having done that, I realise that I need to rather quickly get it all
> working "as painlessly as possible" for the new users (only three of
> us), or it will people will default back to Word.
>
> I genuinely believe that Lyx has got to better business solution than
> Word. Easier to write reports and higher quality output, but I am
> much more familiar with setting up templates and problem solving in
> Word than I am with Lyx.
>
> So a very vague question, but I would be grateful for any experiences
> that users might be able to share.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham

Hi Graham,

One of the things my small business does is sell books. Every book I've 
written this century was written in LyX. In the 20'th century I'd written 
books in WordPerfect 5.1 and in MS Word. For writing books, LyX is VASTLY 
superior to both.

Personally, I think for everyday letters, ad-hoc reports, informal reports, 
initial design documents, and general "stuff" that's not too important, MS 
Word is more convenient than LyX. Word paragraph and character styles are 
much easier to create than LyX environments and character styles (because 
that's true of LaTeX).

For formal reports that have to look good, and especially if they have to look 
consistent with former reports, I'd go with LyX over Word.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

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