On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:05:09 +1100 Robert Thorsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006.12.18 09:51 Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Robert Thorsby wrote: > >> I am a 60 tear old who lives in the bush and is totally > >> self taught. I know no programming languages at all, but > >> I can do almost anything I want by using a combination > >> of bash, sed and awk. As a "proof of concept" I wrote a > >> bash script for writing a letter on "letterhead" paper, using > >> dialog boxes for input and groff for typesetting -- I > >> now use my script in preference to firing up Open Office! > > > > groff ??!! Are you some sort of masochist? :) > > Yeah. It all started when I wanted to produce a weekly tide chart for > printing to a semi-decent-quality laser printer. Using a shell script > to produce a LyX file -- now THAT'S masochism! > > After using LyX, groff came as light relief. It probably depends on what you are doing. I have just used Lyx to layout and typeset a cook book, <begin shameless plug> "The Restless Minestrone" </shameless plug>, and it did a terrific job. I used Lyx because I was having some of the typing done by people who would have run a mile if they had seen a LaTeX tag. When they had finished the basic layout stuff, I added a few LaTeX finishing touches. It was a very smooth operation. Having said that, it would have been smoother to do in pure LaTeX. Alan > > Robert > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
