Joe Hart wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use. >> If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it >> might be faster to just use abiword. >> > I've never heard of lyx. Have to check it out. Would you consider a > 450 page book a big project?
Another difference between anything based on TeX (LaTeX, Lyx, pdftex,...) and anything not based on it (M$, abiword, OOo, etc.) is that the formatting of the text will be much better with LaTeX. It will take care of ligatures, have better integration of symbols, foreign characters, better hyphenation, better page breaks, better than TTF-looking large and small letters (headings, footnotes etc.), better setting of mathematics, etc. etc. It is really surprising that all the money earned from commercial office products has only led to more (pseudo)-features, but not to improvements in the finished product (ie. improvements in hyphenation, integration of professional fonts instead of the not-so-beautiful ones that were available for free decades ago, when the word processor business started, etc. etc.). But maybe that only tells There are many leading book publishers that use LaTeX-based typesetting for their finished products and next to none that use plain doc-documents, because of the bad result of the latter. I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of a document you will be better of with LaTeX. Word output might be ok for a quick fax, but the printed text from a half-way decent printer will always look better, if it's done in LaTeX. My 2ct. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
