-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 09:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > Neil Watson wrote: >> With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use >> the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. >> There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with >> Word and OpenOffice. > > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an outside editor is required it is my impression that there is no WYSIWYG, no > way to get a basic view of how it might look printed outside of actually doing > whatever magic it is to send it off to a printer. Which I don't have. > > Also the end result of my labor will be to send this out to be published. > I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed > out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX.
PDF? > So without a printer I am stuck with > transforming what I want into an acceptable format and plain text won't so. I > am using some formatting. Nothing fancy, noting that will cause formatting > inconsistencies. But just enough that plain text is unacceptable. lyx is supposed to be a good GUI front-end to latex, and I'm sure that there's a way to convert latex to PDF. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+SAxS9HxQb37XmcRAoMpAKCLYHk2olkHMxY2sRjplw4pwFiPQQCfT0en HaZvM+ADY95JkwBjUk/zCOg= =+Hd5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
