Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread cr
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:39, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:35:12 +0100, Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: 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

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread Michael A. Miller
Sridhar == Sridhar M A [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally the best thing for writing LaTeX docs is vim/emacs :-) Emacs + auctex is good too... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:00:22AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or testing/unstable/main), which is an almost

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:58:42AM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: Sridhar == Sridhar M A [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally the best thing for writing LaTeX docs is vim/emacs :-) Emacs + auctex is good too... If you are not averse to it, try vim +

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so postscript output good), and the documents are

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats I'd like to move to text-based documents so we are not dependent on a specific product (like Word). So I'm looking for suggestions. Aah, the document

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
I suggest OpenOffice: + available for Linux and Windows platforms + easy to learn, many things are similar to Word (but some advanced features are IMHO better than Word's) + its own format is XML based, can also read and write Word, RTF and other formats + new version can generate PDF

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
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

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:20:16 +0200, Stephen A. Witt wrote: Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the proprietary-ness of Word. And these days, it even has a 'direct to pdf' exporter. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so postscript output good), and the

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. LyX is very good, and the QT interface for it is very nice. Ive just done a full 30 page report with it and

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:35:12 +0100, Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: 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. No idea what these are so cant comment ;)

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Nathan Michaels
I highly reccomend Lyx. It is a very easy to learn, intuitive, powerful editor that generates LaTeX output. It can also export to HTML via latex2html, for which it has built in support. I've also seen it say something about text output, but I can't vouch for that since I haven't used it.

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or testing/unstable/main), which is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX that runs under the X Window System. Inspired by your post, I downloaded and installed lyx_1.1.6fix4-2_i386.deb,

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:37, Stephen Patterson wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:20:16 +0200, Stephen A. Witt wrote: Another option might be OpenOffice. Essentially its Word without the proprietary-ness of Word. And these days, it even has a 'direct to pdf' exporter. All of the modules can

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats (most often MS Word or WordPerfect). From these documents they generate printed booklets (so postscript output good), and the

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or testing/unstable/main), which is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX that runs under the X Window System.

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:08:12PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: 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

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:28:02PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I believe there are WYSIWYG editors for laTeX (or however you capitalize it.) I don't recall their names offhand, though. LaTeX, TeTeX, CrApTeX...they're all StUdLyCaPeD. - --

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:35:12PM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: LyX is very good, and the QT interface for it is very nice. It would be nice if KOffice did TeX. You'd think it would be the obvious format choice. KOffice is lighter weight, faster, and