Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 28, 2006 08:38 PM
LaTEX and other pro solutions have their place when you want to make serious "book" projects, the kind publishing companies sale.
Sometimes you want to write a book the quick way (e.g., for personal publishing at a Linux Users Group or a short book of class notes); these kind of books usually are made in Word. In that case, Openoffice is a much better alternative, not only for being free/Free, but because it works better, IMO -- even though I must agree WYSIWYG brings some problems on its own.
Alas, this kind of article is a clear sign that a suite won. Hopefully to be followed by Calc (spreadsheet) macros.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 28, 2006 08:38 PMSometimes you want to write a book the quick way (e.g., for personal publishing at a Linux Users Group or a short book of class notes); these kind of books usually are made in Word. In that case, Openoffice is a much better alternative, not only for being free/Free, but because it works better, IMO -- even though I must agree WYSIWYG brings some problems on its own.
Alas, this kind of article is a clear sign that a suite won. Hopefully to be followed by Calc (spreadsheet) macros.
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