desktop publishing

[Christoph Bier]

Lee Braiden schrieb am 02.11.2005 18:39:

> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:11, LinuxMurah.com wrote:
> 
>>is there any other application beside SCRIBUS for desktop publishing?
>>because I'm not satisfied with SCRIBUS.
> 
> If you're looking for DTP that doesn't work like Scribus, then something like 
> OpenOffice may suit -- DTP and WYSIWYG Wordprocessing have basically merged 
> anyway, and OpenOffice does have some particularly advanced DTP-like layout 
> features.  It also has useful output options.  Just disable the font and 
> formatting toolbars, and use styles.
> 
> Alternatively, LaTeX almost-certainly *does* have the features you need, if 
> you can figure it out.  Various LaTeX frontends, like kLyX may help.

For DTP tasks based on TeX, I guess ConTeXt[1] would be the better
solution. I write this as a longtime LaTeX user ...

Just my 2 cents.

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Regards,
    Christoph

[1] http://www.pragma-ade.com/
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