Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

[Matthias Czapla <dermatsch@gmx.de>]

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.  Interoperability and/or ease of import and 
> export is important, as is handling of tables and inclusion of 
> spreadsheets and graphics.
> [...]
> KDE plus OpenOffice, etc.  Gradually, I've come to prefer a Mies van 
> der Rohe "Less is more" approach.   I've shed KDE for icewm, and have 
> substantially stopped using OO -- I don't like to wait so long for 
> these huge applications to load.  I tried to move to Lyx for document 
> processing, but have become frustrated by the rigidity of the 
> templates, which produce ugly documents that look as though they were 
> typed up by a 1930s legal secretary.  As a graphic designer, I find 
> them quite unacceptable and would set about writing new templates and 
> underlying latex classes, if I had time to learn enough latex.

I think if you're not willing to learn LaTeX or troff commands you
don't have many options besides OpenOffice.org. I personally like
groff much more than LaTeX because I had trouble finding good docs
when I wanted to so something more than the available LaTeX classes
and packages let you do. The groff docs are excellent.

Regards
Matthias