On 2019-11-02 15:54, Marc Chantreux wrote:
hello,
You can't go wrong with LibreOffice. I've written thousands of pages over
the years with it. It may be too "heavy" for some, but for me, if I'm doing
something too complex for vi or mousepad, I just fire up LibreOffice.
to me there is no such thing that is too complex for the unix documentation
toolchain that you can achieve with libreoffice. i feel the other way
around: libreoffice is always a bad choice:
* when i need a rich good looking document in which you can
easily add graphical material of very different nature (music cheets,
chemical or math formula, gantt graph, ...), then
[your editor of choice] + pandoc + git + latex + tikz + gnuplot + graphviz +
m4
is really the best thing i found
* if you need interactivity and animation (which isn't my case): the web is
there
(i personally use pandoc + pug + livescript (to be replaced by elm) +
stylus)
the only one case where libreoffice is the good choice is if you mind
the learning curve but writting a book is a long process, pay the bill
at first to be more peaceful later seems to be a good deal to me.
regards.
marc
Fair enough, I have no issue with using the various unix tools for
making documents, but for my use case, LibreOffice has treated me well.
I primarily use it for simple things like putting together invoices,
writing articles, rendering documents to PDF or postscript, and reading
.docx files people send me. I'm sure there's a superior way to do all
this, but I'm lazy and I like some of the more mundane features of
LibreOffice like being able to render a document to postscript and then
print to the printer I have specified in my /etc/printcap file as well
as .docx format support for when I have to collaborate with average
people. I've thought about learning latex and mandoc and all the fancy
tools, but I've just never gotten around to it.
