On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Mitt Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm in search for an office pack. Considering Gnumeric as a decent > spreadsheet application (even better than LibreOffice's one?), I know very little about LibreOffice Writer, but can tell you I use Gnumeric on an almost daily basis and it's great. > I > can't be sure about word processor, speaking of numerous AbiWord > issues. Honestly, if you can run MSWord under Wine, you'll have a better word processor than anything Linux has to offer. They all suck. > > LibreOffice has too many dependencies, as well as AbiWord, while I'd > like to remain minimalistic. Ah, a new piece of info: minimalistic is a priority. That changes everything. I'd advise you to split "word processing" into several things. Bluefish is excellent and lightning fast for HTML creation, always assuming it's not too dependency encumbered (I never checked). Sigil is the best ePub editor, but it's the king of dependencies, so I can't recommend it at this point. I'd recommend gaining a familiarity with TeX and LaTeX, and perhaps some front ends for those. I've used LyX front end for 15 years, but it's losing its mojo in my opinion, and horribly dependency encumbered, so I might check out some of the others like ConText and TexMaker. But if all else fails, plain, ordinary TeX is humanly simple and small and stable and very easy to write. The only problem with plain TeX is your font faces are very limited, and it's difficult to nest styles. > What do you use daily and would advise? I use LibreOffice for quick and dirty short documents, and LibreOffice Impress to make presentations. Gnumeric spreadsheets. For writing books I *have* been using LyX, and have on occasion made ePubs with Sigil, but long term I'm making my own long-document native format, called Stylz, which hopefully will replace both LyX and Sigil for long documents like books. SteveT Steve Litt October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
