On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:16:17PM +0530, Mario Michael da Costa wrote:
>
> but still, much as i hate myself for having to say this, the best software to
> create a design document with figures, is the crap that M$ dishes out. i only
> wish OpenOffice developers would say screw M$, and concentrate on developing
> a WYSIWYG word processor that can incorporate drawings i do in xfig, have
> better support for tables formatting etc.
What is wrong with LaTeX? It does all this beautifully. If you want
aribitrary dragging of figures, TeX and friends are not good at that. I
think they were not meant to be. But for a structured document, nothing
beats it. In fact, I really hate it whenever I am forced to do tables
in Word (or Openoffice). In LaTeX, it is easy to create a decent table
without worrying about later additions/reformatting.
> lyx and klyx somehow are not quite there just yet.
Before somebody jumps at me, vim suits me fine. There are some for whom
emacs+auctex work wonders. Some like TeXmacs. KTeXmaker2 is a nice
IDE for LaTeX. I still find it difficult to use LyX.
Regards,
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