On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:59:10 -0700
Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> dijo:

> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:51 PM, John Jason Jordan
> > lately I have been working
> > on a book that requires extensive use of characters not found on a
> > standard US keyboard. I have been tearing my hair out getting correct
> > print output.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > In other cases OOo substitutes another font for certain glyphs on
> > screen, but fails to print them. And when I take the text and paste it
> > into Abiword, KWord or Scribus the glyphs drop out on screen as well as
> > in the printout.
> 
> IMO, writing a book in OO.org, abiword, kword, Scribus, or even Word,
> for that mater is friken' insane.
> 
> Please, please, please (re)consider using LaTeX or one of the LaTeX
> front ends (eg: KyLyX).  I know that in years past you've rallied
> against the idea of using a programming language, but I strongly
> encourage you to reconsider.  I won't belabor the benefits of LaTeX,
> because I know we've been over this before (Given the number and
> gravity of the issues you're having here, it seems like it'd be worth
> revisiting the problems you had with LaTeX in years past--I'm pretty
> sure I've tried to get you to switch before ;)

I am not smart enough to learn TeX. Besides, anyone who would use
something like TeX to layout a document must be freakin' nuts. :)

Besides, I suspect I would have the same problems printing the TeX
document. There is a problem with fonts and CUPS on Intrepid.
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