Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I was considering switching to OpenOffice because of the excessive effort in
creating/modifying styles in LyX.
So as an experiment, I began making a derivative, in OpenOffice, of a book I
originally wrote using MS Word.
WHAT A MESS! Styles I created in OpenOffice wouldn't stay created. If they
stayed created, they'd magically change properties from time to time. Numbers
kept changing to bullets and vice versa. I'm scared I'll be fine tuning this
document every time it's edited in any way, or even printed. I will NEVER
AGAIN write a book in OpenOffice.
I must admit that although I'm not a fan of the 'OO/Word is for morons'
style of promoting Lyx use,
I did have similar problems when I started my book project in OO 1.9.
Styles and bullets just wouldn't stay set. I don't know to what extent
things have improved since then. I'm left wondering how these people who
claimed that they used that version of OO for serious work actually got
anything done.
It proved to be quite a problem because, after OO, I tried Koffice Word
which had some font kerning problems that made it unusable for me. I
should add that other people claimed that they could still use it. The
versions of Abiword that I tried were also had bugs surrounding the styles.
In the end, it was probably all for the best as it led me to discover
Lyx and now that I've learnt Lyx I prefer this way of working.
Bit of a problem for Linux as a platform that I was unable to install a
fully working standard word processor though.
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