[Leaplist] I'm thinking of staying with LyX

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Steve Litt wrote:
> 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/
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I saw an article on the web where one could grab Corel WordPerfect 8 and 
run it on Linux.

I believe WP is up to version 11 now.