Grub versus Boot Manager

[Olafur Arason]

Lyx is a good wysiwyg editor for LaTex, that plus the knowledge 
of the LaTex language should be good enough for writing books,
but I don't know how it compares with PageMaker because I
haven't used either to write anything. But it has DTP properties 
so I think it could be useful for you. Just install lyx and ispell
on ubuntu. There is a guide that comes with it.
Also the following links:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook/booktips

Latex is primarily used in universities because it's easy to write
math formulas with it. But the language has layout abstraction.

Olafur Arason
Ps you can install kcontrol and go to a Apperance & Themes ->
Theme Manager and choose a theme like Plastik to make Lyx
look better. And if you want the guide in pdf just File -> Export
-> PDF or View -> PDF.



On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:01:03 -0800, Joe Malin <jmalin7 at comcast.net> 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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