**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI **************************************** On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> > We had done the thing in Microsoft Word format ( I used Star Office while > > my colleagues Microsoft Office ) > > If you want to allege that either of these tools are bad at document > creation, then I don't agree with you. MS Word has a really really > wonderful document model just as any self-respecting word processor > should have, and one can indeed make good reports in it. yep, I guess Word or for that matter any WYSIWYG tool is great for casual/short editing needs. However for real stuff like books/thesis/report you have to resort to Latex like tools > If you really feel adventurous, try Docbook-XML :-) Then you can > publish your documents in any format - LaTeX, ps, PDF, HTML, RTF, > text, etc. ummm... XML I have vague idea that it is some kinda markup language having more features than HTML. I have no idea what is Docbook Can you please enlighten me ? > All sane people publish their reports, papers, articles etc using > LaTeX or related tools. Don't worry, you are on the right track! :-) Thank God :) Nikhil -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
