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. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
