Do folk here have recommendations about how to do wordprocessing? I am looking for solutions that allow well formatted technical documents, with the possibility of using well-designed templates in a modern typographic style. Interoperability and/or ease of import and export is important, as is handling of tables and inclusion of spreadsheets and graphics.
A few words of background: When I first threw windoze out the window, I was happy to switch to what was really just a linux clone of a doze working environment -- KDE plus OpenOffice, etc. Gradually, I've come to prefer a Mies van der Rohe "Less is more" approach. I've shed KDE for icewm, and have substantially stopped using OO -- I don't like to wait so long for these huge applications to load. I tried to move to Lyx for document processing, but have become frustrated by the rigidity of the templates, which produce ugly documents that look as though they were typed up by a 1930s legal secretary. As a graphic designer, I find them quite unacceptable and would set about writing new templates and underlying latex classes, if I had time to learn enough latex. The same criticism applies to kile -- it can only do as well as the available classes, which is pretty abysmal. What would really work for me is Lyx together with a Latex class editor based on the same interface. This is obviously not a debian question, but I sure the clever people on this list will have found other *nix solutions that I have missed. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
