Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Fred James wrote: > > >> I am not into blaming, so I shall stay out of that, but I should like to >> add my vote to that of Matt McKenzie, as my experience would seem to >> collaborate his - and I run Linux only - no dual boot or VM. >> > > Yeah. That's all I've used the past dozen years. > > >> To avoid MSW making hash of an OO.o file, or the other way around, I often >> passed it on as a PDF - possibly not a productive suggestion in your case? >> However, my daughter (and MS user, and college professor of Math) uses >> LaTex/Tex, and I have found LyX is available on a number of platforms >> including MS - possibly also not a productive suggestion in your case, as >> it might imply a learning curve for your reviewer(s). Sigh. >> > > No one seems to notice what I wrote. When I need to collaborate on a > document, that is, write a draft and have others make comments on it I need > to use OO.o. If you look in the archives of this mail list you will see many > of my posts noting that almost all of my writing is with LaTeX/LyX. The > folks in the business world stick with Microsoft -- and all the default > settings on every application -- and have no interest in using anything > different. > > Rich Rich Shepard Sorry - I guess my thoughts got lost in my wordiness - but I (and others) did suggest that the simplest answer would be to just keep it in MSW format from beginning to end - at least until you don't need your reviewer(s) any longer.
Since you are already using LyX - once the reviewing stage is over you could save as text and go at it from there. Or have I missed something again - like you want them to review the formatting as well? Sorry to have been such a bother, and probably no help at all Regards Fred James _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
