Hasn't Anyone heard of LyX? WYSIWYM (what you say is what you mean). LyX uses LaTeX to render its documents, the next version will also have good graphics support, eg. jpeg, tif, bmp... (currently only ps and eps). Its easier to use than Word (trust me I use both), you don't need to worry about fonts or layouts, you can simply choose from drop down lists for typesetting. Pre-determined layouts can be chosen which apply to the complete document. You choose, it uses most of the popular LateX styles. Not only that you can convert to pdf, html, tex, rtf and ps. Its native format is.lyx. And for the hard core LaTeX junkies you can save it as.tex and play all you like! Note it surpasses word for long documents such as Thesis or Books and Mathematical syntax. It does have some disadvantages against word but these are only minor (depending on your needs) eg linked spreadsheets, office integration. First time users will pick up LyX much faster than word. If someone packaged it up in a nice shrinkwrap box including a good manual and support it'd sell like hotcakes. Hmmm. N.B. I wrote up lecture notes including pictures and heaps of math formulae in both doc and latex, the word document needed two floppies for 20 pages while the tex file and associated pictures were under 200k. The source code is freely available, there are ports to windows and it compiles on most *nix's.
These DVD thingy's don't seem to be catching on yet do they? Up the mighty VCR!
I refuse to purchase any hardware which doesn't comply with my ethics. Incidently I don't use pirated software, why when I can use Debian and choose how much I can pay with a donation?
I do also purchased closed source software on occasion from customer orientated companies.
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Hasn't Anyone heard of LyX? WYSIWYM (what you say is what you mean). LyX uses LaTeX to render its documents, the next version will also have good graphics support, eg. jpeg, tif, bmp... (currently only ps and eps). Its easier to use than Word (trust me I use both), you don't need to worry about fonts or layouts, you can simply choose from drop down lists for typesetting. Pre-determined layouts can be chosen which apply to the complete document. You choose, it uses most of the popular LateX styles. Not only that you can convert to pdf, html, tex, rtf and ps. Its native format is .lyx. And for the hard core LaTeX junkies you can save it as .tex and play all you like! Note it surpasses word for long documents such as Thesis or Books and Mathematical syntax. It does have some disadvantages against word but these are only minor (depending on your needs) eg linked spreadsheets, office integration. First time users will pick up LyX much faster than word. If someone packaged it up in a nice shrinkwrap box including a good manual and support it'd sell like hotcakes. Hmmm. N.B. I wrote up lecture notes including pictures and heaps of math formulae in both doc and latex, the word document needed two floppies for 20 pages while the tex file and associated pictures were under 200k. The source code is freely available, there are ports to windows and it compiles on most *nix's.
These DVD thingy's don't seem to be catching on yet do they? Up the mighty VCR! I refuse to purchase any hardware which doesn't comply with my ethics. Incidently I don't use pirated software, why when I can use Debian and choose how much I can pay with a donation? I do also purchased closed source software on occasion from customer orientated companies.