On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:39:23AM +0000, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hi, > I have noticed lately people are going to great lengths to get > openoffice going on amd. I have found that for academic (and personal) > writing latex (therefore lyx) produces superior documents; since > character spacing may be modified and it has 'nicer'type-faces. Along > with a bibliography tool. It posseses the ability to save as a pdf > document (which everyone can read). It produces a functiomal contents > tool. > > For graphs one can use gr ace (xmgrace) which is a fine tool for > spreadsheets and 2d graphs and simple maths. Gnuplot for 3d work. > There are various presentation softwares (eg kpresent) for overheads. > In all a good toolkit. Granted openoffice will open msoffice stuff but > as I recall there are converters available. > > Try these tools outt rather than tear your hair out with the office > suite. Individuals will have their personal reasons for using ooffice > and in these cases I apologise for wasting anyones time. I thought it > was worth a mention.
Well installing openoffice in a 32bit chroot is not a big deal and works fine. Openoffice also exports PDF just fine. I do personally prefer LaTex for writing documents myself, but I sure don't like lyx for doing it. I just write it in vim and write a makefile to process it with latex when I type :make, and if there is an error vim jumps to the line with the error. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
