[arch] latex, openoffice and figure placement

[Damir Perisa]

Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:16, Attila wrote:
 | > on the other hand in latex you can say, i
 | > dont care and keep on writing... untill your boss wants the
 | > picture 10 not where latex decided to place it... and then it
 | > gets messy like it was "in the other world".
 |
 | Your last sentence is a nice description about the well feature of
 | floats in latex in combination with a boss who likes images more
 | than text.-) 

i don't know yet about the current boss, but i had teachers, who 
indeed had liked nice figures much more than text. now i want to be 
prepared for such cases :) - actually this placement is an extreme 
time-saver and with the argument that i may spend this time in the 
lab doing some other experiments instead, i think i can convince the 
current boss, that it does not matter. latex is for lazy people who 
like setting things once and then simply go on with the productivity.

 | You can enhance the speed in openoffice if you use 
 | one global document, which is nearly the same as working with
 | include files in one master latex file, and if you have attention
 | on the litte button in the file selector box to use linked images.

i definitely need to learn more about openoffice. splitting up a 
document into files with a global document would solve many things.

thanx + greetings,
Damir

-- 
I think I am an overnight sensation right now!!
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