> From: rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fwd: Re: Word processor bashing] > To: "lyx-users" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > Received: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:19 PM >I know a lot of > people who use Word, etc, and I don't know a single > person who regularly uses styles.
I suspect that some do but in the documents I get, Styles use seems rare. It may be increasing with the new Word2007 toolbar layout. I still see a lot of this type of thing. http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/images/cvpic.jpg This is from an academic CV of a fairly sucessful professor who in 8-12 years in academic as student and prof has never learned to use even basic styles, or any other reasonable formatting techniques. > Speaking as a teacher, I often worry that my > students are themselves much too worried about formatting > even while they are writing first drafts, and this is in > large part because WYSIWYG tools present writing and > formatting as one thing and not as two. I think you're right and not just for students. Some Word documents I see from businesses and government are incredible Rube Goldberg documents that look very good but are impossible to modify. > > For what it's worth, I do use OpenOffice Writer for > some things, but these are mostly DTP type applications, > such as a church bulletin or a news letter, and I'd > probably be better off using Scribus (say) if I only I > weren't too lazy to learn how to use it. Most OOo users would agree :) It's not a DTP tool. I use OOo all the time and once you have your own style templates set up it is pretty good and even handles large documents quite well but it does not compare to LyX for really professinal output. For me, a strange but very handy use of LyX is to convert very badly laid-out working documents from Word to something in an article format. It immediately is several hundred percent more readable. Unless I have to redo some equations (not all that common in the papers I am coverting) I can get a nice clean readable paper in 15-30 minutes and can usually save a couple of hours of frustration that I would spend trying to read a poorly formatted document. Quarter inch margins are such fun! __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
