On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:23:39 -0700 Jason Dagit <[email protected]> dijo:
> > I am not smart enough to learn TeX. Besides, anyone who would use > > something like TeX to layout a document must be freakin' nuts. :) > > Taking the spirit of what Rogan said and applying your complaint with > LaTeX, you could look at an alternative to LaTeX such as docbook or > reST (re-structured text). Something Rogan probably didn't mention is > that he writes proposals at work fairly often and he has considerable > experience authoring and collaborating in Word, OO.org and LaTeX. I > recently went through the thesis writing processes in LaTeX and I > understand intimately why someone would choose a different system. > The next time I go to write something the size of a book I will try > learning docbook myself. But, the bottom line is, the extra time I > spent fighting with LaTeX is nothing compared to the time I would have > spent fussing with Word or OO.org. > > > Besides, I suspect I would have the same problems printing the TeX > > document. There is a problem with fonts and CUPS on Intrepid. > > That's fine. The the fonts/CUPS problems on Intrepid are orthogonal > to the merits of the markup language you choose, or not, to use. And > good luck with CUPS, I hope you get it working to satisfaction. But, > I will say that mostly people generate pdf from LaTeX, and a pdf may > just render those special characters as vector graphics or use a font > that is part of TeX -- so you may actually have different luck, I'm > not sure. Does Latex use its own PDF generator? Run it through ghostscript and then ps2pdf? Or how? I ask because if I export PDF from OOo I get results that are not near as good as if I print to CUPS-PDF, although CUPS-PDF is not perfect either. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
