On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Stephen A. Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > I don't have any experience with DocBook or XSLT, but I do nearly > everything in LaTeX and I love it. From LaTex source you can pretty > much automatically generate html and pdf as well as postscript. I do > think the learning curve is a little steep though. The way I do it is > a lot like developing software, I have a directory that I put the > "source" .tex files and have written a Makefile to "compile" it. I > edit the source files with an editor and then run make and out come my > docs. Many, many people here really like how my docs look, but are > astounded that I can't give them a Word file and positively cringe > when I break out emacs to do the edits. > > With LaTeX I find that I worry a lot more about the content of the > document than the format of it. If you need some pretty fancy document > layouts, LaTeX can be a little challenging, but if your documents fit > one of the standard document classes then its pretty good. LaTeX would > probably only work for you if you had some guru type person who set up > templates that the other people could use so they didn't have to > become too knowledgeable about LaTeX. > > Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the > proprietary-ness of Word. > > >
I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. Some clarification of OpenOffice. Their fileformat is actually compressed XML -- you can open it up in winzip and look at it yourself. So, if needed, you could convert it by script to some other format -- though I wouldn't envy the task. It also exports as standard MS types. OpenOffice provides a word processor, a spreadsheet app, and a slideshow app (and probably more stuff I haven't noticed). It's about 95% on importing/exporting to MS formats; the fewer crazy features you use, the closer it will be, of course. I also have heard that OO.org is working on Reveal Codes for their next release -- which, if true, has me drooling. That's the biggest thing I miss about WordPerfect. -- monique Please respond to the group OR to my email, but not both. (Group preferred.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
