On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:33:16PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:28:23AM -0700, Virgil wrote: > > First, you may want to send LyX questions to the LyX lists. Your > > chances of getting a useful reply are much better, since you are likely > > to get replies by people who actually USE LyX. Visit www.lyx.org and > > you'll find plenty of info, including the how to get to the lists. > > I have to wonder: When will the other word processors (openoffice.org > writer and kword in particular) get with the interoperability and > ditch thier own specific formats in favor of the far more flexible and > usable LaTeX? > > Using a format that's professional grade, portable and flexable for > word processing seems obvious, so why did koffice and openoffice make > the same mistake the closed guys do? writer2latex is a java program (plugin) to openoffice that will export to latex. http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ I appreciate having the choice of latex or dtp-like wordprocessing with openoffice. Both have their uses. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E (currently active subkey 03CE8884) Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Key available at keyserver.kjsl.com Encrypted emails prefered.
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