Hi >I made small edition to my final thesis in Word and now it looks terrible >again. >I want to get rid of it. I have more important things to do than keep >document's >layout in looking good.
I feel your pain. It was a similar experience with word that made me change to LyX in 1999. However, if you do not have a week to familiarize yourself with LyX and LaTeX you should finish your thesis in word first, and then learn LyX. >I have been playing with openoffice writer2latex and lyx for several hours >without >notable success. Sadly, writer2latex tries to conserve as much as possible of the layout and that makes the LaTeX code in my opinion ugly and not really compatible with LyX. So I would say that using writer2latex is a not an option, sorry :). Maybe somebody have other opinions about writer2latex, and how to make it behave, and I guess they will tell us so. :) The best way forward if you have the time is to find a thesis-lyx-layout that resembles your layout and put your text into it. You should also read the LyX Help->introduction and tutorial. Then when you find something you need to change, you can ask the mailing list (after checking the wiki ;-) ). Here are a starting point to some thesis-lyx-layouts: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis http://www.thesis-template.com/ Finally, dropping word is possible the best choice you can do, however, learning LyX is necessary to utilize it... But I have never met anybody not being happy after learning LyX :). hth, Ingar Pareliussen
