On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:44:34 -0400 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > > > This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. > > > > > > Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium > > > II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow. > > > > Steve, > > What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then follow the > > procedures suggested? > > I don't know. I don't trust OO Writer as far as I can throw my house. > OO Writer's not touching my book. > > About 2 years ago, during one of my occasional "I'm mad at LyX" > months, I evaluated OO Writer as book writing software. What I would > have lost in typeset quality, I hoped to gain in faster creation of > styles. However, OO Writer kept changing styles all by itself. It was > one of the most untrustworthy pieces of software I've ever seen. That > gave me an incentive to learn a lot more about LyX style creation. I have unfortunately had to use OO (version 2.0 in Debian Etch) off and on for the last couple of months to deal with editors corrections. She uses Word (of course), but OO has been good - it reads her corrections properly and she can read my comments about them, all in "Rev Mode" as the Word folk say. But I would sure hate to have to use it for a major writing project!! Anyway, I think if you liked the idea of using Word macros to massage your manuscript, you should at least take another look at it. Alan > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > >
