On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:43, Nick Rout wrote: > A Desktop Potpourri > =================== > Chris Sawtell is one of our older members, but still seems to be able to > remember his root AND user passwords! It's a bit hard to get out of Chris > exactly what he is going to do, and he's too busy preparing slides to get > any sense out of! The best description seems to be his last email to me > which describes it as: "It'll be generally about the KDE desktop. I'm > going to show off Audacity, but there will be particular emphasis on > getting ink on paper." - I know that Chris has spent a lot of time on > "Desktop Publishing" programs like Scribus, Inkscape, Kile, LyX, TeX, and > LaTeX. Like Blender, some of these programs have a steep initial lerning > curve, but you will be well rewarded once you get past first base. Its > great to see a contribution from someone as old^h^h^hexperienced as Chris, > lets have a big turnout to support him!
He makes it sound like a uber-geek typesetter convention. Well it's not. It's a demo of the typesetters and source code for the systems other than those of the ubiquitous "Office" whysiwyg kind. ( That talk is coming up in May ) I'm just going to give folks a look at a short slideshow - Yes there are a few pictures of the people involved - I'm preparing in Scribus. There will be a few out-takes to see the programs go. Then I'll answer questions as best I can. TeX uber-geeks in the audience are welcome to help. You don't even _need_ to use the bash CLI. ( But you may :-) -- C. S.
