From lyx-users  Mon Jan 26 15:15:50 2009
From: Steve Litt <slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:15:50 +0000
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Message-Id: <200901261015.50908.slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
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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? 

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
 
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