"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 13:52:04 -0500, Kent West wrote: > [HTML stripped - this is a mailing list, not a website]
Sorry; I was using Mozilla M18, and my address book entry is set to not send HTML to this list; apparently the address book has problems (more than just this problem; it seems to me to be way broken). > >Is there an open document format that is widely available on Windows, Mac, > >and Linux, that can do all the stuff that the proprietary formats (.DOC, > >.WPD, etc) can do (such as graphics, tables, columns, font/attributes, > >indenting, justification, super/subscripts, footnotes, endnotes, math > >formulas, etc)? > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics) may fit the bill, > but they assume a certain level of user sophistication, as they're primarily > typesetting systems, rather than word processors. A frontend like LyX can be > very useful. Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, although in an ideal world.... Thanks anyway! > HTH, > Ray > --
