On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Graham Smith wrote:
I think this is a marketing thing, I have been to too many meetings where, the people making the decisions, are impressed by how a report looks more than what the report says.
Graham, Yes, there are too many people for whom appearance is more important than is content. I don't want that type for clients.
I suspect that Lyx will do what I need but, I agree this is a good option, and I am using Scribus for a newsletter
If you look at The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed, you'll find a lot of help in setting up fancy title pages, chapter header pages, running headers and footers, and more. Also, the KOMA and Memoir classes have more flexibility (and capabilities) than do the standard classes. Read the docs on them to see if either is useful for you. Years ago I read through the Memoir doc but decided that I did not need the fine tuning it offers for reports, articles, and news releases. Springer provided their own monograph class so that's what I used for my book. The KOMA letter2 class is what I use for letters and proposals because it allows me to put a pdf graphic on top of the first page as a letterhead. I did a lot of fine-grained tweaking on that to get the margins, page numbering, continuation page headers, and so on just to my liking. That is, so they have the same layout as they did when I used OO.o's Writer for them. A suggestion: when you have a layout that is to be your standard for that type of document, empty a copy and save that as a template. I get lazy and just rename one file to the new one, then make the appropriate content changes. It works for me. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
