On Friday 06 February 2009 09:32:12 A B wrote:

perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to demonstrate its 
merrit to those who care

Wolfgang
 
>
> I'd say: create converters that are shipped with LyX instead!
>
> If I may generalize a little....
> The word users are of two kinds: the largest part is the one that will
> never use anything but word no matte what you do. People is still
> educated to learn "Word" not writing and structuring documents. It is
> unfortunatly a waste of developer time to produce a LyX light version
> for these people, I'm affraid.
>
> Then there are however some that might install LyX and have a go if
> someone stands behind them and point and tell them what to do. They
> might just as well use LyX (perhaps it only need a switch to hide
> "difficult" menues and good templates(classes?) that will help them
> create very nice documents? That might be a better thing to do.
>
> What is needed is the ability to let LyX users interact with other
> people. With good  converters that enable LyX users to take a X-file,
> open, edit, and send back a X-file, (where X = word or html or rtf or
> openoffice or xml or even MP3 (with lillypond?) ) you can work with
> LyX in any  environment. Then others can see how powerful it is and
> then show them the pricetag...
>
> Btw: Education is a great place to promote LyX. Then they might
> continue to use it in the future. And it is in education people get
> addicted to Word. :-(
>
> Well, if I were a word "fan" and LyX was the dominant tool I would
> surerly have written a similar comment.
>
> Cheers!



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