[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day (new thread)

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Harry Phillips wrote:

> So what do you use when you need to do the stuff OO Writer and Word
> provide? Please don't say some plain text editor like vim or emacs.

I'm not Greg but I'll tell you what I use instead of OO: Lyx.

Once you get used to the new paradigm it is superior IMHO.  It is 
graphical but not WYSIWYG because the paradigm trancends WYSIWYG.  I've 
found many non-techs see the advantages right away and go ahead and use 
it.  It can easily output pdf too which is great.  All of our business 
docs are produced in Lyx (we output pdf).  I only use OO when someone 
sends me an OO or MS-Word doc and (in the case of MS-Word) it is beyond 
the capability of antiword.

Rob

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