LibreOffice to LyX

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am 08.10.21 um 07:38 schrieb Dr Eberhard Lisse:
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> Everybody has Word and how difficult can it be?
not me
Wolfgang
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> Indeed it is very easy to write poorly looking documents in (Word and)
> LibreOffice.
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> LaTeX enforces a lot of things, and this one of the reasons why you
> really have to try hard to write poorly looking documents, though I
> have seen many determined attempts at doing so over the years, some of
> them successful.
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> The answer I ALWAYS get from Word/LO users is: Styles? What are Styles?
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> el
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> On 2021-10-08 03:44 , Alan Tyree wrote:
>> Why is it so hard to get people to use styles?  I worked recently with
>> a friend to convert his Word document into an ePub.  My advice is
>> don't ever, ever do this!  Even though I had advocated the use of
>> styles, he had spent hours using direct formatting.
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>> And it is not just amateurs.  I write for a service that insists on
>> using Word documents (who knows why?)  and the stuff they send me is
>> all direct formatting.
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>> I know that this is preaching to the choir here, but I wondered if
>> anyone had a strategy that convinced others to work with styles.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan
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