Alternative to LaTeX?

[Christoph Bier]

Sean Hammond schrieb am 12.05.2006 14:34:

> On 5/12/06, Christoph Bier <christoph.bier at web.de> wrote:
> 
>>tex4ht
> 
> Hmm... another one to check out.

I forgot to mention that writer2latex is not only for converting OOo
to LaTeX. It also provides conversion to xhtml:
http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/

>>>Also I like a bit of colour. All the LaTeX classes I can find are
>>>black and white. I hate that!
>>
>>That's not true. Have a look at the beamer class. And you can easily
>>change all other classes using xcolor. Look at the document in my
>>signature. It's produced with LaTeX (but it's in german).
> 
> That is in fact a really nice looking document in your sig, and is
> exactly what I'd want from a LaTeX class, just a little bit of colour
> here and there really lightens things up.
> 
> I thought beamer was for presentations?

Your're right! But you said "All the LaTeX classes" ...

> I guess there's nothing
> stopping you from using it to create normal documents as well, and
> benefiting from some of the colour if not the presentation-specific
> commands?

No, I only use it for presentations.

> Did you create your example document with beamer or by
> changing classes using xcolor?

I used the color package (xcolor is an extension to color) and a
KOMA-Script document class (scrartcl). KOMA-Script provides a nice,
 easy and uniform user interface to many configurations and defaults
to european typography. The memoir classes are similar flexible and
also provide a uniform user interface (I don't know whether it's
easy, too, because I never used them). You can also find the
preamble of my signature's document on my homepage (but descriptions
are in german, too):

.tex-File: http://zvisionwelt.de/praeambel-lst.tex
PDF: http://zvisionwelt.de/praeambel.pdf

HTH

Best,
  Christoph
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+++ Typografie-Regeln: http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf (1.4)