On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:28:39 +1300 Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:44 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > On 11/10/05, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > However, this is a wake-up call for the Open Source community. Name the > > > tools that I can use to separately edit style and content. Nvu? I do use > > > it (a little) but man, is it flakey. Mostly I manually edit my style > > > sheets and xhtml directly, and no, a plain text editor may satisfy geeks > > > (I use the centre of evil, after all), but it'll never satisfy a mere > > > mortal. > > > > LaTeX > > OpenOffice.org: press F11 and relax.
Word. Use styles. ditto. Honestly word has had styles as long as I can remember. Its just that no one uses them, just like no one uses them in openoffice unless they are forced to. Most people think of a word processor as a typewriter with easier white out. The advantage of lyx/latex is that styles are forced on you. The disadvantage is the under support for anything other than what geeks want to type (computer documentation, learned articles, text books). latex/lyx is not sexy, so very little effort has gone into producing and packaging a set of templates for business. I do not want to write books or articles, I want business letters and boilerplate scriptable legal documents. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
