Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Friday 11 June 2004 09:08, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> Matthias Czapla <dermatsch@gmx.de> writes:
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:03:00AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> > > Do folk here have recommendations about how to do
> > > wordprocessing?  I am looking for solutions that allow well
> > > formatted technical documents, with the possibility of using
> > > well-designed templates in a modern typographic style. 
[...]
> Latex with the memoir class (e.g.
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/>) is
> flexible and aesthetically pleasing. The manual even includes an
> interesting discussion of the aesthetics of typography.
>
> And rather than Lyx, emacs+auctex as already proposed.

Oh dear, do I have to use emacs?  Over the years, I have tried on 
several occasions to use emacs/xemacs and always fled to 
kate/kedit/nedit/vi/vim/gedit/almost-anywhere-else.  But I shall look 
at groff once I have finished reading the memoir manual.

Thanks.

-- 
richard