Subject: Re: Alternative to AppleWorks?
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 11:36:18 MST
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Doug Philips wrote:
>
> Is anyone else on the list doing regular and somewhat non-trivial doc
> production on YDL? If so, is Star Office the way to go, or ???? I'm not
> afraid of doing my own experiments, I just figured that if I could, I would
> rather leverage off of whatever anyone else has learned.
>
Funny you should ask.. my gf is writing her doctoral dissertation right
now and word just isn't cutting the mustard, so I've been looking into
other means of document production.
LaTeX might be what you want, if not overkill :) It's an indusrty
standard typesetting and layout program. the learning curve is steep, but
the results are top-notch. You'll find that many of the books written
about linux are written in emacs and typeset in LaTeX. The Grad School
for my university actually distributes a LaTeX style-sheet for theses and
disseratations, so I certianly think that falls under the catagory of
non-trivial :) Asgin, this is not water to be tread into lightly. You
may want to look into LyX, a word processor front end to TeX (LaTeX and
ConTeX) which I've head good things about. When I tried it like three
years ago it was kind of icky, but it seems to have advanced by leaps and
bounds in that time (there's even a winders port...)
Also, there is OpenOffice, which I have not used, but does work under YDL,
AbiWord, which is a very nice Word Processor, if not occasional prone to
crashing (I think that's a config issue with my particular machine
though.. you will want to test it) and the KOffice suite of applications
which include word processor and Illustration program, (maybe even a DTP
app? I haven't used KDE in a long time and my partiular install is quite
old..)
For most document production, I use the WordPerfect 8 that was released a
long time ago. I really like it and am pissed that it's broken under
Redhat 7... guess I need to find those libc5 compat libraries.. :)
HTH, or at least points you in a general helpful direction
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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