Hi, I will second that. For writing books, (La)TeX is the way to go.
You get a book that has professional, production ready fonts. You get a book that is readily transformed into pdf, html or postscript. The html output is clean and concise. You get nice tidy files for the document source which easily backup. Your figures are handled in a nice fashion. (with abiword, the figure is duplicated in the file, adding to the source file size....) With latex, figures are separate files in disk, and loaded when then final document is generated. Your references/figures are all correct. LaTeX handles all the cross references perfectly, with no effort. Sure, there are people that complain that LaTex doesn't do what they want. Yep, LaTeX is not for generating brochures. LaTeX is for generating books. Sorry Wesley, but I speak from experience of writing a book, and watching others write books. The saddest thing is when you watch someone work with word, and then it goes kapput, and the document is "gone" Derek. ========================================================== On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49, Andrew Errington wrote: > > > I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor. It does > > > have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily. > I tried it out quite a while ago and it installed a whole load of very > unsatisfactory fonts, totally stuffing up virtually every kde application. > I thought 'never again'. I hope it has stopped doing that particular > misdemeanor. > > > > It doesn't like > > > big files - I downloaded a 1.56 MB RTF document I had stored on a > > > web-site of mine, and it took too long to load. It loads smaller files > > > quite quickly, and is the fastest of all the wordprocessors I have tried, > > > for small files. > > > > > > Just thought some of you out there might be interested in knowing this. > > > Anyone who needs a small, fast multi-platform wordprocessor without all > > > the bells and whistles ... ;) > > > > AbiWord v1.0.2 comes with Debian Stable (woody). I used it a couple of > > times, and quite liked it. To be honest, I haven't really fixed on a > > favourite wordprocessor with Linux. I like KWord, > Yes, so do I. For that quick page or three it's not far off perfect imho. > I like the frames paradigm. > > > I find Open Office takes > > too long to load, and AbiWord was nice. I reckon if I loaded up a later > > distro I'd get better apps but for now I don't much care. At least I > > *have* a choice. > > > > Good luck with the writing. Follow your muse! > Are we allowed to see the pre-production efforts? > > For writing books there is not much to go past (La)TeX. > The LyX front end makes it more or less usable by anybody. ( Actually a great > deal more than less ) LyX is a _lot_ faster to set up than trying to coax the > pure WYSIWYG offerings to produce what you want. > > http://www.tug.org/ > http://www.lyx.org/ > > For more DTP type of things I have also found Scribus to be very usable. > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
