Grub versus Boot Manager

[Joe Malin]

Dear Olafur,

Thanks for your comments.  I am talking about FrameMaker, not PageMaker. 
The two are often confused, but they are *not* the same. In fact, 
they're not even related to each other. FrameMaker seems to be quite 
close to Lyx. I have not used equations in either FM or Lyx, so I can't 
tell you which is better.

Joe

Olafur Arason wrote:

>Lyx is a good wysiwyg editor for LaTex, that plus the knowledge 
>of the LaTex language should be good enough for writing books,
>but I don't know how it compares with PageMaker because I
>haven't used either to write anything. But it has DTP properties 
>so I think it could be useful for you. Just install lyx and ispell
>on ubuntu. There is a guide that comes with it.
>Also the following links:
>http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook/booktips
>
>Latex is primarily used in universities because it's easy to write
>math formulas with it. But the language has layout abstraction.
>
>Olafur Arason
>Ps you can install kcontrol and go to a Apperance & Themes ->
>Theme Manager and choose a theme like Plastik to make Lyx
>look better. And if you want the guide in pdf just File -> Export
>-> PDF or View -> PDF.
>
>
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>On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:01:03 -0800, Joe Malin <jmalin7 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Dear Tim,
>>
>>You may be right. I pinged a fellow tech writer who knows something
>>about LaTex, and he was amused that someone suggested it as a
>>replacement for FrameMaker. On the other hand, LaTex seems to be very
>>popular in academia. One thing I can't figure out is what *editor*
>>people use to create LaText documents. As far as I can tell, LaTex is a
>>markup language not an editor. Can you get an editor that has
>>menus/dialogs/function keys/whatever for inputting LaTex?
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>Tim Hunt wrote:
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>>>Joe Malin wrote:
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>>>>Lars, if you are a professional technical writer and you can point me
>>>>to large documents (say 100 pages or more) that were created in
>>>>Latex, I'd be more than happy to look at them.
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>>>>
>>>I'm breaking your rules because I am not a technical writer, but I
>>>would assume that "The LaTeX Companion" (1120 pages) was produced with
>>>LaTex.
>>>
>>>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201362996/
>>>
>>>Tim.
>>>
>>>P.S. Searching for LaTeX displays a side of Amazon that I don't think
>>>I wanted to know about.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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