On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:56:19 -0700 Joe Shisei Niski <[email protected]> dijo:
> > > On the other hand, at its current level of development OOo has all the > > features I want it to have except freedom from bugs. Instead of adding > > a ribbon I wish they would declare a moratorium on new features for at > > least a year and concentrate instead on cleaning up the existing code. > > In "cleaning up the existing code" I include fixing font management on > > Linux so it uses OpenType fonts like all my other Linux apps. That the > > flagship Linux office suite cannot at this date is pathetic. > Amen to that! Other unpleasantness (in the word processor) relates to > screen updates when using Compiz - so buggy (even on my well-supported > Nvidia card) that's it's unusable. Even on non-Compiz computers the screen update is horrible in OOo Writer. Click on a graphic and the whole window jumps. Click back on some text and the window jumps again. That's just lame. And it has always been that way, since I first started using StarOffice 0.9 on Windows. C'mon OOo team, clean this crap up. > Even though under deadline pressure, i tried LyX for my current writing > project (thanks to this list), and am really enjoying it. A good blend > of gui editor and clean separation of structure & appearance. One > interesting thing is discovering body-memory for a bunch of keystrokes > for dealing w/bad habits from MS-Word. I used to use Adobe InDesign a lot, and I still have it installed in a virtual Windows machine. You can get some versions to work under Wine as well. But I wanted a completely GUI layout app that was also completely open source. I found it in Scribus. Scribus is currently at about the level of InDesign 1.5, but the developers have done a great job and progress is quite rapid. Typography is superb. However, it still lacks footnotes, references (biblography), indexing and tables, although there are (sometimes clunky) workarounds for all of those. I think of Lyx as a word processor on steroids - a word processor because it is continuous text. In contrast Scribus is a design app where each page is a discrete object and text is always in a frame, so it does not automatically flow from page to page (unless you tell it to). Many projects could be done in either one with equal facility; but the fundamental concepts behind the way they work are completely different. In my experience you like one or you like the other; few like them both. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
