[Fwd: Re: Documentation File Formats]

[Michelle Lowman]

Whoops! I meant to send this to the whole list. (Now where's my coffee .
. .?)

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> From: Michelle Lowman <address@hidden>
> To: Georg Lehner <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Documentation File Formats
> Date: 23 Aug 2002 20:01:17 -0700
> 
> A similar tool called Kile also creates TeX files in a graphical
> environment and can export to dvi, ps, pdf, etc. It has a one-button
> Build feature than you can customize to whatever file format you prefer.
> 
> It may be a little easier to use than LyX for someone used to
> OpenOffice, even if it is a KDE app, which may make it a less than
> attractive alternative for some.:)
> 
> -Michelle
>  
> 
> 
> > There is a new genre of WYS* around since a while which is called
> > WYSIWYM, and I think was perceived and coined by LyX
> > (http://www.lyx.org).
> > 
> > What you see is what you mean brings visual editing and structured
> > documents together.
> > LyX has LinuxDoc, hence SGML support since a while, and it should be
> > able to extend or modify this to DocBook, at least to a reasonable
> > subset.
> > 
> > I use LyX for almost any tecnical writing - it is a document Workbench
> > which allows you to preview and export to dvi, ps, pdf, pdflatex, html,
> > latex, plain ascii, and even to user definable formats from any of the
> > above. It can be used in makefiles: lyx --export pdf <filename.lyx>
> > creates the .pdf file out of the LyX file, without using the grafical
> > interface.
> > 
> > It is possible, albeit not trivial to install LyX on Windows.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> >     Jorge-León
> > 
> > 
> > 
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