Stefano Franchi wrote: > The best solution I have found is to go Lyx--> Latex--> > OpenOffice--> Word.
How do you get the LaTeX document into OpenOffice? Thanks! Best wishes, Jack M. Lyon ___________________________________________________ The EDITORIUM Microsoft Word Add-Ins for Publishing Professionals http://www.editorium.com ___________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefano Franchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:16 AM > To: Juergen Spitzmueller > Cc: Stefano Franchi; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: selling lyx part 2 > > > > On Mar 3, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > > * especially in human sciences, LaTeX and LyX is almost > unknown, so you > > finally have to stick with word. I am not aware of a single > journal in > > my > > subject that accepts latex files, not to speak about the > proceedings. > > > > * Some tools missing (e.g. grammar checking, thesaurus in other > > languages than > > English) > > > > Jürgen > > > > Perspectives from a human scientist (philosopher) who has > switched to > LyX for good after countless years of Word and Framemaker: > > For articles: You *must* become proficient at converting from > LaTeX to > Word. Every journal I am aware of accepts word only files (or > rtf). On > the other hand, the vast majority of humanities journals redo the > typesetting in-house. Which means you do not have to worry about the > look of your converted document, you just need to worry about logical > structure (i.e. preserving references and cross-references, etc.). > Final adjustments and copy-editing are made on *paper*, not on the > file. The best solution I have found is to go Lyx--> Latex--> > OpenOffice--> Word. > In short: it is not as bad at it could be. > > > For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: > they want word files and will re-typeset everything. > (Actually some p. > houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller > publishing houses > and/or imprints will want a camera-ready manuscript and > assume you will > use Word and provide instructions accordingly (i.e. "11pt for > the body > text," "skip two lines before a section heading", etc.). You must > become good at _LaTeX_ to produce the camera-ready manuscripts they > want. In fact, you'll probably sleep with the LaTeX companion, as I > have been doing for the last two months... > In short: major hassle. > > For collaborations: luckily we tend to be lonely guys and > write our own > stuff ;-) However if you need to co-operate with word users (as I am > doing now), I found it less time consuming to act as "principal > editor": you're responsible for the master copy in LyX > format, get the > (edited) word files and insert the corrections in your copy. > > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 > University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408 > Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Auckland > New Zealand >
