Hi, [...Not really Lazarus related, but seeing that here are many technical writers I thought I would post this here...]
I normally use LaTeX for documentation or articles. LaTeX does the most beautiful typesetting by far. But seeing that most people don't even know what LaTeX is I thought another format might help (for our company at least). Please note, I'm not suggesting rewriting FPC or Lazarus articles (or documentation)! Anyway I decided to use the Open Document Format (ODF), seeing that it's recognized as a standard format. I also decided to use OpenOffice seeing that it runs on a lot of platforms and is freely available. OpenOffice is also a simple install and includes everything you need - LaTeX documents sometimes require non-standard (non included in default install) .sty files. OpenOffice also allows exporting to PDF, LaTeX, MediaWiki etc formats. Because ODF content is really a XML file, data can also be extracted from well styled documents with ease. As I mentioned, I really like the typesetting and layouts of LaTeX documents, so I'm busy recreating those styles in OpenOffice as templates. I'm busy recreating the 'article', 'report' and 'book' document classes. I'll make those templates available from my website soon. Oh yeah, if anybody has already done something like this, please let me know so I don't duplicate work! :-) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
