What publishing software do you use?

Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 12, 2007 at 02:58 PM

Franz,

>This may be a bit off-topic (OTOH, I am sure a lot of people here create output that
>goes to a printer or to a web site): What kind of publishing tools do you use?

No experience, other than a history of problems with Word and long documents, but it is well worth while looking at Lyx.

As a very friendly graphical front end to Latex, I suspect it has a lot going for it, certainly in terms of getting from text to well formatted, properly typeset document, it is immeasurably better than Word. I’m not sure about colour separations, but does Word do that?

An interesting read is at http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1859251&from=rss

On Open Office, and I suspect you were unlucky with it, as it has a reputation of being more stable with long documents than Word.

Try having a read of for a comparison with http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/replaceframewithwriter.html

Having said all that I find it hard to believe that InDesign cannot cope with Word files.

If you see my earlier post on Lyx, you will gather that I am blown away by how good Lyx is at making it easy to write, but then turn out documents that look as if they have been professionally typeset. And of course it will run on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Main page is http://www.lyx.org/ and the Wiki is at http://wiki.lyx.org/

Having said that, my local printer would only take files as Quark or plain text with images supplied as Tiffs.

Graham