On Tue, 22 May 2012 18:50:25 +0200, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected]> wrote:
We just don't care about Word. We use it because somebody demands Word
documents, whereas we care about the programs we produce and their
maintainability.
On May 22, 2012 1:23 PM, "clay" <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, I've just received the pre-prints of my first photo book; while
photos have been postprocessed with Adobe Lightroom, typesetting and page
layout has been done with Apache FOP and Maven :-) It's a photo book and
text sections are very small, in any case they are formatted in a very
simple HTML. This project is an incremental one (I mean, I've been working
on it for some time, and I'd still work in future for improvements) and I
prefer to have command line and reproducibility at the cost of giving up
WYSIWYG (furthermore, fixed layouts such as "description on even page,
full size photo on odd page" are much simpler to do with batch than any
WYSYWIG that would often screw up things). And I want to commit changes in
Mercurial, so I really need ASCII based "source" files.
On the other hand, a presentation is done quickly and (at least for me) is
never edited back once it has been used for a presentation. It's something
that I don't want to spent a lot of time on, and animations are very
important (if well done). Thus I'd never do that in LaTeX, or HTML 5 or JS
(*) or FOP, even in the case I was extremely proficient with those
technologies. KeyNote just delivers in a quicker way - consider that I
think twice before using a product that is not open source.
(*) For the record, at JUG Lugano I've just seen the first presentation
made with Google Dart (figure out, it was about Dart).
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