I find myself caught dead all the time, because I would not write a NeoOffice document if it was one sentence :-)-O
It's a bit of a hassle to set things up sometimes, but once done, boy to the look good. So keep pn trying :-)-O el On 2013-12-08, 22:52 , Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:13:48 -0800 > John White <j...@whitelawchartered.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Steve, >> >> A bit above my pay-grade, I fear. My secretary uses libreoffice, for >> which she has a pleading paper template (perhaps she made it). She >> has no problem getting .odt files onto searchable pdfs. I think she >> just does up the document and then adds the pleading template. Not >> sure. I am sure that she thinks I am silly to insist on using lyx >> when searchable pleading paper with indexes is required. On the >> other hand, to the extent that what I do can be called >> "thinking," (some wouldn't call it that) I think in lyx, not .odt. >> >> John > > Hi John, > > Point of clarification: I wouldn't be caught dead using LyX for any > document under 10K words. For short docs, LibreOffice is just fine. Or > straight TeX, which is dead bang simple. If the pleadings are less than > 10K words, why fight city hall: Use LibreOffice. LibreOffice, whose > styles suck, still takes 1/10 the time to make styles that LaTeX based > formats like LyX do. An hour or a day to make a style is no problem if > you allocate it over the two months it took you to bang out 100K words, > but it's a tragedy if you allocate it over the two days a 10K document > took to write. > > ======================== > NOTE: I stop here to give a chance to those who will come in to tell me > that styles in LyX/LaTeX would be easy if only I were good at them, or > to claim that various packages solve all problems, or to claim that > LyX/LaTeX doc classes are so wonderful you can simply use their > existing styles. > ======================== > > It's very possible, and I think advisable, to use LyX for some things > and LibreOffice for others. > > If you often write big documents, like over 20K words, I'd recommend > you learn a little bit more about LyX, the latex executable, > shellscripts, index internals, LaTeX commands and environments, and the > like. Long run, you'll have more aesthetic output, and save time. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance >
