Subject: Re: Alternative to AppleWorks?
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 11:48:09 MST
You may want to try out Klyx for KDE ... it's a lot like using any Windows
DTP package and the results are great.
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Monday 31 December 2001 01:36, you wrote:
> 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
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