Grub versus Boot Manager

[Joe Malin]

Dear Lars,

Thank you for your comments. I will grant that it's possible to write 
1800 pages in Tex. That doesn't mean it's the same as FrameMaker, any 
more than being able to design a web page in Notepad means that Notepad 
is the same as Dreamweaver.

I'm interested in hearing from any *tech writers* who have written 
manuals in a Linux application.

Joe Malin

Lars Hallberg wrote:

> Joe Malin wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell, Scribus is a desktop-publishing/layout 
>> application that does work similar to PageMaker. FrameMaker can do 
>> DTP tasks, but its focus is on large document creation. For instance, 
>> most of the very large Oracle 10 manuals (for instance, the SQL 
>> Reference is about 1800 pages) are written in FrameMaker. I only know 
>> of one other app (ArborText) that is capable of doing books of that 
>> size.
>
>
> Latex/Tex handel that size on an old 386 with 4M ram, and even less 
> computer power :-)
>
> Whith Lyx it is aktuly easy to make big, butyful (but simple) books.
>
> But I have been searching for a PageMaker type of app for fancy 
> layout.  One of few things I have been missing in the free world. Will 
> take a look at Scribus.... Wonder if it is pakaged fo ubuntu?
>
> /LaH
>
>
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