If you like LaTeX, You might try LyX. It works wonderfully, retains
all the support for LaTeX yet is nearly WYSIWYG. They claim WYSIWTW
What you see is what you want.
I used it all fall to prepare class notes and documents for my
Organization of Programming Languages course and upper division C++
courses.
David
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Kent West wrote:
> >Kent wrote:
> >>I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source
> >>software that did what it does.
>
>
> q. wrote:
>
> > The more I use linux, the more i've come to use vi for most of
> > my word processing.
>
>
>
> I guess maybe I'm starting from the wrong premise. I'm not trying to do
> word processing; I'm trying to do Desk Top Publishing, to create a
> monthly newsletter, with columns and graphics and drop caps and text
> boxes and etc.
>
> From what I've been able to glean over the years, Tex and its
> derivatives may be what I want, but each time I try (over the past three
> years) I just get frustrated and fall back to what I know works (e.g.
> WordPerfect). I've also come to understand that Tex is perfect for
> writing books and doctoral theses, and the like, especially if they have
> fancy mathematical formulas, but that's not the type document I'm trying
> to do.
>
> So it's not so much that I miss WordPerfect, as it is that I miss being
> able to accomplish the same tasks that I could in WP.
>
> Surely it's possible, but so far, it's not easy for the average person who
> does DTP in the MS-Windows world to figure out how to do it in the Linux
> world (or at least, it hasn't been easy for me).
>
>
>
> Anyway, just ranting; I appreciate everyone's courtesy in not flaming me
> for my OT rant.
>
> Kent
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