[Leaplist] I'm thinking of staying with LyX

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Offlist, I mentioned to Fred Moore that I might switch to OpenOffice due to 
frustrations with LyX environments (LaTeX equivalent of styles).

I've been revisioning one of my old books, originally written in MS Word, in 
OpenOffice. I figured it would really work out well and I'd dump LyX.

Wrong!!!

It might take 3 days to make a paragraph style in LyX, but at least when it's 
done, it's persistent. Make a paragraph style in OpenOffice, and it 
intermittently changes. You have to fine tune (hand format) everything. What 
a PITA!

I spoze I could drop back to MS Word or WordPerfect 5.1, which, IIRC, did 
paragraph and character styles very well, but, no. MS Word uses a proprietary 
native format, and WordPerfect 5.1 is 10 years old.

I've been working with OpenOffice and wishing for LyX. Now more than ever, I 
need to attend Fred's LaTeX presentation.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/