On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote:
One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you
are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by
cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old
text?
For me, this is THE reason. I want and need to have access to
everything I write until the end of my career. No commercial package
with a closed format will ever satisfy that requirement, as I have
found out, painfully, not too long ago. The only alternative to using
open software and open standards is to set up a personal computing
museum with carefully chosen hardware/OS/word processing versions. I
have been doing this for a while, and I am getting tired of it.
S.
For my party: I deny using Word and am not willing to use it or an OSF
clone of word like OO. If someone only can use word files, e.g., a
secretary, I will need to send one.
Cheers,
-Jan
On 5/14/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX
to MS
Word...
Why not use MS Word from the beginning? AFAIK once you convert to
Word (or rtf
or whatever), you can't really get it back into LyX. Once you're in
Word, you
don't have LyX->LaTeX->TeX ability to lay out text and math. I'd be
hard
pressed to believe that subtle LaTeX tweaks in your layout file will
be
accurately retained by MS Word.
If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS
Word with
the idea of typesetting it him/herself, why do you care whether it's
written
in LyX, MS Word, OO, Vim, Emacs or Mozilla Composer? It's not like
you're
responsible for getting the layout right.
If the person requesting your book/thesis/whatever demands it in MS
Word with
the idea that YOU are responsible for the typesetting, and if the
requester
cannot be disuaded from this unreasonable demand (after all, why
can't they
just accept it as a .pdf?), then it would seem to me that the easier
route is
to start it in MS Word, and begin that by creating a stylesheet (I
think they
call them "templates" in Word).
Where I see LyX useful, and in fact completely indispensible, is for
people
like me, who must prolifically produce large, well typeset documents,
with no
help from a publisher or layout artist.
Another person who could use it is one whose publisher or layout
artist
prefers to work with either LyX or LaTeX, especially if the publisher
or
layout artist gives the author a layout before the book project
begins.
But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a
project in
LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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