Jeff Epler wrote: > > 3. The future > > If nobody can come up with a good way to resolve the problems created by > LyX file format versioning, then I think it's time to talk about > switching to a different format for documentation. > > Well, I was never a fan of Lyx. One VERY stable system is Don Knuth's TeX, which is the underlying "engine" of a number of advanced document formatting systems. There are all sorts of front ends to hide the cryptic syntax and non-wysiwyg nature of TeX. I, of course, am highly biased, as I was one of the first users of TeX in 1980 or so on a PDP-11 at our University. I do most of my own documents in bare TeX, but there are a raft of systems built on top of TeX for various purposes, such as LaTeX.
Conversion of TeX to PostScript and then to PDF files is quite robus > > A. Write in LaTeX. > > Advantages: LaTeX format won't incompatibly change out from under us. > We can use automated tools to convert LyX to LaTeX. > > Disadvantages: No GUI editor; documentation editors (that is, the > people who edit documentation) have to take care to get LaTeX syntax > right. All LaTeX to HTML converters suck. > > There must be SOMETHING that will do a passable job of this, but, I agree, I don't know of such a program. There ARE GUI editors, but I don't know if there are any open-source ones. > > D. Write in OpenOffice or other software using a standard file format > (ODF) > > Urp, this is almost like selling out to MicroSoft. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
