Real programmers use TeX (plain TeX), and build from that. TeX is like C, while LaTeX is like C++ STL. It is too far advanced for really serious programmers.
Pablo #5037 *** --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Orlando Andico <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [plug] on charitable wireless encryptions (was Re: MSI Wind: > Triple booting Ubuntu, Leopard, and WinXP) > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 3:41 AM > Real programmers use LaTeX. :-) > > On 12/24/08, Daniel Escasa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sabi ni Eric noong Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:39 PM: > >> If that's the case, what's taken the place > of Print Master on Linux? > >> i.e. easy to use "desktop publishing" > software. > > > > I'm not sure if PrintMaster qualifies as desktop > publishing in the > > purest sense of the word. Far as I remember, it was > mainly a > > graphics-and-text manipulation program, although my > memory's kinda > > fuzzy and I could be confusing it with another > application. At any > > rate, you have to be familiar with publishing to use > DTP software -- > > the one-time (current?) DTP software "for the > masses" is PageMaker but > > serious publications scoff at it. For Free Software, > it'll have to be > > Scribus. If you value ease-of-use over the fine > control that a DTP > > application will give you, OpenOffice.org Writer will > do, and I've > > created a nice-looking user's manual with OOo > Writer. > > > > -- > > Daniel O. Escasa _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
