Grub versus Boot Manager

Karl kaha at colug.org
Thu Mar 17 21:14:02 UTC 2005


I would recommend LyX.

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:01 -0800, Joe Malin wrote:
> Dear Tim,
> 
> You may be right. I pinged a fellow tech writer who knows something 
> about LaTex, and he was amused that someone suggested it as a 
> replacement for FrameMaker. On the other hand, LaTex seems to be very 
> popular in academia. One thing I can't figure out is what *editor* 
> people use to create LaText documents. As far as I can tell, LaTex is a 
> markup language not an editor. Can you get an editor that has 
> menus/dialogs/function keys/whatever for inputting LaTex?
> 
> Joe
> 
> Tim Hunt wrote:
> 
> > Joe Malin wrote:
> >
> >> Lars, if you are a professional technical writer and you can point me 
> >> to large documents (say 100 pages or more) that were created in 
> >> Latex, I'd be more than happy to look at them.
> >
> >
> > I'm breaking your rules because I am not a technical writer, but I 
> > would assume that "The LaTeX Companion" (1120 pages) was produced with 
> > LaTex.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201362996/
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > P.S. Searching for LaTeX displays a side of Amazon that I don't think 
> > I wanted to know about.
> >
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