Re: lyx rather than openoffice
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:39:23AM +0000, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hi,
> I have noticed lately people are going to great lengths to get
> openoffice going on amd. I have found that for academic (and personal)
> writing latex (therefore lyx) produces superior documents; since
> character spacing may be modified and it has 'nicer'type-faces. Along
> with a bibliography tool. It posseses the ability to save as a pdf
> document (which everyone can read). It produces a functiomal contents
> tool.
>
> For graphs one can use gr ace (xmgrace) which is a fine tool for
> spreadsheets and 2d graphs and simple maths. Gnuplot for 3d work.
> There are various presentation softwares (eg kpresent) for overheads.
> In all a good toolkit. Granted openoffice will open msoffice stuff but
> as I recall there are converters available.
>
> Try these tools outt rather than tear your hair out with the office
> suite. Individuals will have their personal reasons for using ooffice
> and in these cases I apologise for wasting anyones time. I thought it
> was worth a mention.
Well installing openoffice in a 32bit chroot is not a big deal and works
fine. Openoffice also exports PDF just fine.
I do personally prefer LaTex for writing documents myself, but I sure
don't like lyx for doing it. I just write it in vim and write a
makefile to process it with latex when I type :make, and if there is an
error vim jumps to the line with the error.
Len Sorensen
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