Re: [Fwd: OT: Rant]

[David Teague <dbt@tinuviel.cs.wcu.edu>]

If you like LaTeX, You might try LyX. It works wonderfully, retains
all the support for LaTeX yet is nearly WYSIWYG. They claim WYSIWTW
What you see is what you want. 

I used it all fall to prepare class notes and documents for my
Organization of Programming Languages course and upper division C++
courses. 

David


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote:

> >Kent wrote:
> >>I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source 
> >>software that did what it does.
> 
> 
> q. wrote:
> 
> > The more I use linux, the more i've come to use vi for most of
> > my word processing.
> 
> 
> 
> I guess maybe I'm starting from the wrong premise. I'm not trying to do 
> word processing; I'm trying to do Desk Top Publishing, to create a 
> monthly newsletter, with columns and graphics and drop caps and text 
> boxes and etc.
> 
>  From what I've been able to glean over the years, Tex and its 
> derivatives may be what I want, but each time I try (over the past three 
> years) I just get frustrated and fall back to what I know works (e.g. 
> WordPerfect). I've also come to understand that Tex is perfect for 
> writing books and doctoral theses, and the like, especially if they have 
> fancy mathematical formulas, but that's not the type document I'm trying 
> to do.
> 
> So it's not so much that I miss WordPerfect, as it is that I miss being 
> able to accomplish the same tasks that I could in WP.
> 
> Surely it's possible, but so far, it's not easy for the average person who does DTP in the MS-Windows world to figure out how to do it in the Linux world (or at least, it hasn't been easy for me).
> 
> 
> 
> Anyway, just ranting; I appreciate everyone's courtesy in not flaming me 
> for my OT rant.
> 
> Kent
> 
> 
> 
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--David
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