> As it happens kpdf will update itself when the underlying file is > changed
That is pretty cool, I'll definitely try that. On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:05 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2008 04:35:48 pm Jan Schrewe wrote: > > Jon schrieb am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008: > > > If I could find a decent open source wysiwig editor for that > > > format (or if OpenOffice Writer exported it properly) we'd be > > > using it right now. > > > > There is none. Lyx comes as close as possible to wysiwig, but it is > > usually written as code and then compiled. > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > I am missing something here. Lyx produces and compiles LaTeX code not > sla. There are other specialized LaTeX editors, such as Kile. > > On Slackware I open a command line window and from there I open two > other Windows, a Gvim editor session and a Kpdf session. I have Gvim > trained to execute some F keys: > F2 rearrange the text in gvim and justify ragged right. > F3 execute pdftex book.tex > F4 execute texexec book.tex (Context call) > F5 execute kpdf book.pdf > > As it happens kpdf will update itself when the underlying file is > changed, yet retain the same page location in the file. So that is > my wysiwyg window. > > I use Scribus just for covers. For documents I use TeX as indicated > above. Scribus is just too awkward for long documents. Things are > getting better, but IMO they aren?t there yet. And for me LaTeX is > too verbose and confining. There are horses for courses. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20081010/188dc3bc/attachment.htm>
