On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 11:51, William Oliver <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote:
> Wow. I didn't know people still used TeX/LaTeX a lot any more. I > remember having to use it all the time for stuff I wrote when in > graduate school in the 1980s, but I thought it had pretty much fallen > out of favor except for die-hard users. I haven't used it in years. > But what do I know. I still remember (and pine for) the keystroke > commands for WordStar. > I installed an old copy of Wordstar in the 1990's for use by visitors from Japan who came with Wordstar documents. We added TeX or LaTeX markup (LaTeX was a bit much for 8086 MSDOS systems). > From reading this discussion, it seems that the primary complaints > against LibreOffice are larger scale layout issues. I may have missed > it, and if someone has mentioned it earlier, I apologize. What about > just importing into a publishing/layout program like Scribus? It seems > that this would make it trivial to do various orientations, etc. Of > course, just as word processing programs are not the best desktop > publshing systems, the desktop publishing apps tend to make poor word > processors... > > Another possibility might be to import the odt file into Libreoffice > Draw and use that for layout changes. > Document creation has many use cases, with the result that there are many good specialized tools. Problems can be expected when you try to abuse an application to handle a use case that is outside the app's wheelhouse,. One reason a use case is fails on a given app is that people who have the same use case are working with a different app. If you can find examples from a similar use case, you may be able to ask the authors which app they like. -- George N. White III
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