On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:32, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Timothy Miller wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:01:05 -0500
> > From: Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Open Graphics Project List <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Open-graphics] svn repo
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:39:27 +0100, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > > And why not using latex ?
> >
> > I want to produce the greatest amount of documentation in the
> > shortest length of time.  If someone else would like to take what I
> > write and convert it to latex, let them.  If you have another word
> > processor in mind that I should use, suggest it.  But I'm not going
> > to waste time manually typing inline document formatting codes.
>
> You don't have to, LyX (http://www.lyx.org/) is a very nice graphical
> frontend for LaTeX.

I use Lyx.  I still recommend Openoffice for anything other than 
academic or publishing work.

> The advantage of having the documentation as LaTeX files is that
> A) you can use diff and patch on it, and B) it's easy to take the
> LaTeX files as input and generate output in a wide variety of
> formats.

Yes, true, but it's also possible with OOo with a little bit of zippery 
and Lyx/Latex has its own inconveniences.

Regards,

Daniel
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