On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:49:13AM +0800, Colin Charles wrote:
I'm curious to know, where is OpenOffice.org, and its
bibliography tooll, rough around the edges when compared with
LyX (and well, latex)?
It doesn't use LaTeX as an final output formatting engine and has
to be msword-compatible.
Yes it mimicks typography somewhat, but the gross result is that
obtaining (almost) professionally-looking result from LyX
material is way easier.
Though the learning/looking curves differ very significantly both
in slope and shape, as well as different things being "virtually
impossible".
In short, at least having a week's look at LyX is worth for any
student even if being word-alike user in the Real Job (tm).
I use LyX for most of my own writing, and OpenOffice for editing other
people's stuff, or for when I need easy interoperability with
spreadsheets (you can import spreadsheet data into LyX, but it's a pain).