Gironika
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Dragon Range
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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:48 pm |
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| Koji wrote: |
| I didn't know what LaTeX was, but from your comments it seemed interesting. I did my research and it looks needlessly programmery. I mean, most people don't even know what plain text is. Is there a more WYSIWYG approach? |
It might seem like it's only useable for mathematical documents etc. though there are many packages that help you make full use of it.
For example you can easily even make presentations comparable to .pps-powerpoint-files and the likes of them with LaTeX ... you name it, LaTeX has it.
LyX is as close to a WYSIWYG as it gets. Don't know how good it is though since I did learn to write in a editor and compile it via commandline.
Latex might seem unnecessary complicated at first though if you get the hang of it, you can do anything with it without having to work around problems that Works/OOffice/etc. create (for whatever reason).
Take a look at "page layout" on that page, should give you an idea what to expect (and how to make that things work)... e.g. it's so much easier to let text float around a picture or table since you generally don't have to care about it since Latex handles that pretty well whereas you have to spend some minutes in word/etc. to get it right. And that's just the start of it ... it's not easy, but excellent for documents longer than 10+ sites.
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| How could one make a LaTeX document result in a PDF? Also, is there some way to make LaTeX compatible with InDesign, for instance? (Otherwise how would a proper magazine be made?) |
latex filename.tex => dvipdf filename.dvi => open the .pdf-file with anything you want.
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