From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 19:34:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAC61065686 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:34:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDC08FC1E for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-88-233.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.88.233]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731B6511BB; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:34:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id mA7JY9kU003307; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:34:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:34:09 +0100 From: Polytropon To: Frank Staals Message-Id: <20081107203409.6857c714.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49148AE1.7010601@gmx.net> References: <49148AE1.7010601@gmx.net> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" , fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: recommendation word processer for xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:34:16 -0000 On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:37:21 +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Well not realy solution for the problem you mentioned. But if you have a > bit of a programming background you may want to take a look at TeX/LaTeX > for you documents. I know it may be like using a cannon to kill a fly > but I prefer writing my documents in my basic-text editor using TeX > much rather than in a a word-like application. A big advantage is that LaTeX source files are plain text, so they can be transferred between systems without problems. Furthermore, you don't need a particular program to read a file. > Besides that it looks a > lot better IMO. >From the standpoint of typography LaTeX is superior to any WYSIWYG word processor. Why? Because it's a professional typesetting system. Hyphenation, paragraph setting, picture adjustment and other things tha are important are handled correctly. The support for other languages (e. g. German) is excellent. > Might be something to look into if you are not realy > satisfied with word-processors. An alternative to use the power of LaTeX without needing to know about the macros is to use LyX. But using LaTeX itself is much easier. The difference between LaTeX and the usual wprd processors is like the difference between HTML (created by hand) and the crap that comes out of authoring systems and CMSs. I'm doing most of my stuff with LaTeX: Letters (dinbrief class), technical documentation, statistics (in combination with gnuplot), books (stories), lists and forms. When you're familiar with LaTeX, you won't want to miss it, because you can work faster *and* get better results than anyone with the usual "Word" skills, clickity click, nyak nyak, blah blah. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...