Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a DFSG-free program that works something like > > Adobe PageMaker? > > > > I'm kind of hoping there aren't any, because I want to write one. :-) > > > I'll be the first one in line for your new sofware! > > Actually there is a pagelayout program called Lyx that generates Latex > output (not really a bad idea) but from the little that I have looked at > it, I don't find the user interface very comfortable. Take a look and tell > me what you think. I'm an old pagemaker user (emphasis on the old) and > asside from several gross bugs, I will be happy when wine can run my 5.0 > version. (There is a new version of wine that I have yet to test, so hope > springs eternal.)
Lyx, as far as I know, isn't a page layout program, it's a word processor. Have the developers added page layout features? I can't imagine trying to emulate PageMaker-like features from within the constraints of LaTeX. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
