[Novalug] Replacement for abiword??

gregory pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Jan 21 12:40:16 EST 2007


lyx

is a GUI for TeX

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:24:23PM -0500, Nino Pereira wrote:
> Did anyone already suggest TeX for this purpose?
> 
> >From what I read of this thread, TeX is perfect for
> this purpose (and, if Donald Knuth, the developer of
> TeX, is to be believed, it was originally desiged for
> to make his wife's pamphlets more beautiful).
> 
> Formatting is done through (admittedly somewhat arcane)
> commands that you intersperse with text. The whole file
> is in ASCII, so that you can edit it with your favorite
> word processor (I use gedit when I have a full screen
> available, pico or nano through ssh). Then, you convert
> the ASCII input into a 'device independent file' with
> print commands, or into a .pdf file.
> 
> All science publishers accept TeX files, and many publishers
> of non-science books should be able to also.
> 


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