The problem with "secretary's editors" like MS Word or Open/LibreOffice is that they waste user's time with formatting and other non-content related activities. With LaTeX and derivatives such as LyX, the user is free to be productive. When I was working on my MSc paper, ages ago, I wrote some 40 pages in two months on Word, then converted it to LyX and created 40 more pages in just one week.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/2 Graeme Geldenhuys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graemeg.lists@gmail.com">graemeg.lists@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012/3/2 Alexsander Rosa :<br>
<div class="im">> I suggest convert it to LyX format.<br>
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</div>No need really. The newer OpenOffice and LibreOffice also supports the<br>
Flattened ODT format (older versions of OOo can install the plugin for<br>
this too). That is basically just an XML file (no zip archive like<br>
ODT). This makes it much better for version control systems to manage<br>
document revisions and patches. I'm not sure how Flattened ODT handles<br>
images though, but then again, for any large documents (like a book)<br>
it is anyway recommended (think of it as best practice) to link to<br>
images, and not embed images.<br>
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