Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2004 06:06 AM
You should be using templates and styles.
OpenOffice.org has a very powerful notion of styles. If you can get your users to use the style consistently, it can be a life saver. It has any of the benefits as LyX. It creates a constant appearance. You give your document a "logical" description (e.g. author, title, etc).
Take a look at the OpenOffice.org user guide:
http://www.oooauthors.org
We have dozens of volunteers working on the guide, and we maintain a common look by having a standard template.
Furthermore, we can change the appearance fairly easily. We make a new template and apply it to each document. So, the process takes just a few clicks for each file.
LyX is fantastic software, I love it, and I use it. But for "average" users how have the kind of need you describe (e.g. for your company) the best option might be OpenOffice.org WITH TEMPLATES AND STYLES.
Remember: Templates and Styles.
Very important.
Those are what set OpenOffice.org appart from other office suites. That's what sets OOo appart from a glorified typewriter.
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Re:This is getting there
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2004 06:06 AMOpenOffice.org has a very powerful notion of styles. If you can get your users to use the style consistently, it can be a life saver. It has any of the benefits as LyX. It creates a constant appearance. You give your document a "logical" description (e.g. author, title, etc).
Take a look at the OpenOffice.org user guide:
http://www.oooauthors.org
We have dozens of volunteers working on the guide, and we maintain a common look by having a standard template.
Furthermore, we can change the appearance fairly easily. We make a new template and apply it to each document. So, the process takes just a few clicks for each file.
LyX is fantastic software, I love it, and I use it. But for "average" users how have the kind of need you describe (e.g. for your company) the best option might be OpenOffice.org WITH TEMPLATES AND STYLES.
Remember: Templates and Styles.
Very important.
Those are what set OpenOffice.org appart from other office suites. That's what sets OOo appart from a glorified typewriter.
Cheers,
Daniel.
OpenOffice.org volunteer.
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