[wplug] word processor suggestions?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in November Matthew Danish assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:03:11AM -0500, jd wrote:
| > Can anyone tell me how to fix these problems, or suggest a better word 
| > processor to try?
| 
| LaTeX.  You can get the teTeX distribution for Linux fairly easily, it
| should be a package in your Linux distribution.  If you don't want to
| write LaTeX by hand (it's not that bad), then grab LyX, it's a decent
| frontend.  Be warned; LyX is not your typical WYSIWYG word processor--it
| operates like LaTeX: it enforces structured document preparation.  But
| it comes with extensive documentation, written in LyX, which you can
| render into beautiful looking PostScript files and read at your leisure.
| 


i'm on matthew's side on this one. latex outshines any word processor i've
used when you consider document quality. the print quality of latex is
superb. it does have a bit of a learning curve, but after you get over that
hump, it shouldn't be that hard. i've never used lyx, so i cannot vouch for
that, but writing latex by hand is not that hard. think of it as a step up
from html :).


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